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Vendor management and looking beyond SMB firewalls, anti-virus, and data backups

IT Toolbox

I just had lunch with a long-time business colleague who specializes in IT consulting and network systems integration for small and medium-sized businesses. From servers to PBXs and everything in between, his company sells, installs, and manages entire network environments for its customers.

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Steps to Take If Your WordPress Site Is Hacked

SecureWorld News

Restore from backups, if available If you have been diligent in regularly backing up your WordPress website, recovering from a hack will be a breeze. Reverting to an earlier backup is far simpler than meticulously reviewing extensive code and manually cleaning up the database, sitemap, and third-party components.

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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO Business Intelligence

As learned from recent cyberattacks, user education has become a critical component to protecting against these threats as well.

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What Business Users Should Do To Mitigate DDoS Threats

CTOvision

Use a DNS firewall to reduce two major issues: 1) users visiting sites known to have malicious code that threatens your enterprise and 2) malicious code inside your enterprise that seeks to beacon out to its controller. We recommend Verisign's DNS Firewall. Have a backup communications plan.

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MWC 2024 Replay: Huawei unlocks resilient, ‘non-stop’ banking with four-pronged solutions strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

The first being the network, the solution uses firewalls for detection and prevents the ransomware from proliferating horizontally. Storage, which forms the second line of defense, is where the ransomware is identified and data is protected from encrypting and tampering by using backup and air-gap recovery to ensure service recovery. “We

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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

Having basic cyber hygiene Advanced technology is important, but basics like regular data backups, software updates, strong password policies, and multi-factor authentication are fundamental. For instance, hardware- or software-based firewalls can monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic and block suspicious activity.

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CIOs Want To Know: Is Tape Making A Comeback?

The Accidental Successful CIO

This is why using magnetic tape as an offline backup system is starting to make so much sense to firms. More and more magnetic tape is starting to become part of a firm’s best-practice backup strategy. As with so many other things in the IT department, a CIO understands that a good backup strategy will have multiple layers to it.

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