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How to Pick the Right Technology to Enable the Remote Workforce

CIO Business Intelligence

Protecting data and monitoring user behavior used to be relatively simple when everyone was behind the corporate firewall. For example, more people now need access to sensitive business data while working from home, on public computers, and via their mobile devices. Lock the front door. Bar the exits. You practically need a Ph.D.

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Browser Isolation: The Missing Piece in Your Security Puzzle

SecureWorld News

The browser isolation technique considers non-whitelisted websites unreliable and isolates them from the local machine in a virtual environment. Cyberattacks such as malware infiltration and vulnerability exploitation continue to make headlines, attacking companies of various sizes. Local browser isolation is the traditional method.

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Zero Trust

Phil Windley

Past practices included techniques like virtual private networks (VPNs) that tried to emulate the idea of an intranet where trusted computers and people were protected from hackers by a firewall that "kept the bad stuff out." password, fingerprint, OTP) before granting access.

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How can such a small file do so much damage?

Dataconomy

This is natural in today’s world where data is more valuable than gold because every information is now in the virtual environment and there is nothing that black hat hackers will not do to obtain it. For example, a recursive zip bomb might contain a zip file containing another zip file, and so on. What is a Zip bomb?

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7 IT Security Risks for Small Businesses

Galido

For example, an attacker will send you an email claiming to be from recognized sources and ask you to provide your account or credit card information. Install desktop and network firewalls and anti-spam email software. Like phishing, malware is a major security concern for businesses of all size. What to do? Ignorant Employees.

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Why Human Input Is Still Vital to Cybersecurity Tech

SecureWorld News

It was once the case that cybersecurity technology consisted of little more than a firewall and antivirus software. As a simple example, consider the idea of passwords. The issue of passwords is just one example, but in fact, there are many ways that technology has superseded humans in cybersecurity roles.

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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

For example, in one of the most notable cases of a cyberattack on a nonproft, $650,000 was stolen from One Treasure Island , and the attack vector used was a third-party bookkeeping solution. For instance, hardware- or software-based firewalls can monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic and block suspicious activity.