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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

For instance, Microsoft provides up to 10 free licenses of Microsoft 365 Business Premium to qualifying nonprofits, which include advanced cybersecurity features. For instance, hardware- or software-based firewalls can monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic and block suspicious activity.

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When least privilege is the most important thing

CIO Business Intelligence

Organizations that follow the principle of least privilege can improve their security posture by significantly reducing their attack surface and risk of malware spread. There were countless types of attacks, from accidentally downloading malware to a webpage that exploited a browser bug and more. Within a ZTNA 2.0

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'Crack' Software Leads to Ryuk Ransomware Attack

SecureWorld News

Someone trying to save a few bucks on a software license triggered a Ryuk ransomware attack against a life sciences research institute. The attack cost the institute a week's worth of vital research data due to the fact that backups were not fully up to date. They found what appeared to be one and tried to install it.

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Don’t Bet Your Data on a Thin Veneer of Protection

CIO Business Intelligence

Now you find yourself saddled with rigid, siloed infrastructure based on an equally rigid backup strategy. You’re constantly stuck in maintenance mode, with disparate, multi-vendor backup and recovery systems that are complex and expensive to maintain. Backup as a service solves many challenges. Siloed data.

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MSP cybersecurity: What you should know

Dataconomy

Ransomware is malware that sneakily infiltrates an organization’s environment and then starts encrypting all the data at reach. Scan the system for potential vulnerabilities regularly even when your daily production software and web apps are online. That’s not an option for an MSP.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It was not a literal time machine, but a way of capturing the software development process by recording intervals and storing them in the close. Rather than restoring from a backup the entire operating system, which gets you everything up until the moment of that last backup, then you still have to add in what’s missing.