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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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CIOs Want To Know: Is Tape Making A Comeback?

The Accidental Successful CIO

federal government and other regulated industries are all actively using magnetic tape to store information. 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.

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North Korean Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare Sector with Maui Ransomware

SecureWorld News

United States government agencies recently released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) providing information on how North Korean state-sponsored threat actors are actively using Maui ransomware to attack healthcare organizations. The advisory reminds organizations that the U.S. What is Maui ransomware? What is North Korea up to?

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Cybersecurity e NIS2: come si muovono i CIO per dormire sonni (un po’) più tranquilli

CIO Business Intelligence

Questi requisiti sono suddivisi in tre macroaree: governance, risk management e controllo della catena di fornitura. Anch’io mi ritrovo a lavorare quotidianamente su spam, tentativi di truffa, aggressioni al firewall, e così via”. Molti CIO lamentano la mancanza di consapevolezza in merito alle questioni della cybersecurity. “La

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The Cyber Resilience Blueprint: A Proactive GRC Framework

SecureWorld News

This is where developing a hyper-specific Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) framework becomes essential. The GRC framework: an overview Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) serve as the pillars of an effective cyber resilience strategy. As a result, good governance ensures everyone knows their role in maintaining cyber health.

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School Cyberattack Aftermath: What Happens to Kids' Data?

SecureWorld News

I figured they [the school district] had firewalls and things of that nature. They followed the FBI’s advice to not pay the hackers and restored their system from backups they had kept for such an emergency. Other children had been successfully signed up for an electric company account.

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InfoSec Policies and Standards: Some strategic context for those just diving into this world

CTOvision

Backup Policy. Firewall Policy. How firewalls are named, configured etc. Firewall Policy. How firewalls are named, configured etc. Some encryption algorithms and their levels (128,192) will not be allowed by the government for a standard use. How employees are terminated. How data are backed up.

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