CIO Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Vendors - Better Together Think about the vendors that might help you the most, your suppliers for PCs, internet bandwidth, server equipment, telephony and cloud facilities. Don't throw your security policies out the window, you need them now more than ever! Do you have a policy that will help with employees using personal equipment?

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 15, 2022

The company shared this graphic, depicting attacks on port 5900 from July 9 through August 9, 2022: It also shared the top five countries with exposed VNCs over the internet. Any organization that leaves VNCs exposed to the internet dramatically increases the likelihood of a cyber incident. Limit exposure of VNC over the internet.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Implement comprehensive security policies The foundation of good security is strong policies that are clearly communicated to all employees, especially remote staff spread across regions. Some key policies around access control, acceptable use, risk assessments, and incident response will prove invaluable.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As an information security trailblazer, Mr. Bigman participated in developing security measures for Government computers well before commercial industry found the Internet. He then developed creative solutions to allow the CIA to use the Internet to further its mission without exposure.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 25, 2023

Leighton, who will present the closing keynote, "Cyber World on Fire: A Look at Internet Security in Today's Age of Conflict," at SecureWorld Chicago on June 8, said the targeting of Guam should be viewed as a key threat. "Volt Panda also appears to be targeting critical cyber infrastructure throughout the U.S." Guam is critical to the U.S.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. We can't just, you know, bust things up into small parts and say this is my world because again, internet is a pen test and we're all in this together. We do the same thing for firewalls. That's an example of AI.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

If they don’t follow the Kremlin’s orders, they risk being booted off of the local internet entirely. I think we’re heading toward an inevitable break in the global internet,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank who studies social media. We’re seeing these breakdowns happen more often.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

If they don’t follow the Kremlin’s orders, they risk being booted off of the local internet entirely. I think we’re heading toward an inevitable break in the global internet,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank who studies social media. We’re seeing these breakdowns happen more often.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The “aware” are mature and focus on #DevOps and integrated ways to deploy secure capabilities (like programmatically deploying firewall rules in #cloud). ArsalanAKhan This is part of it, but just as much is assuming the connections are public internet, and then designing the application to deal with that reality – hostile network.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 24, 2016

They are like the SIEM of the Internet and all mobile devices. RiskIQ helps Facebook detect and block threats planted in third-party ads that violate our policies and can put people at risk," said Jennifer Henley, Facebook's director of security operations. We track RiskIQ in our Security Companies Directory -bg.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

Fortunately Aquasec has provided us a utility for the automated scanning of our clusters against the Kubernetes benchmark published by CIS (Center for Internet Security). Implement Pod Security Policy. A typical example would be a policy to restrict container workloads from running in privileged mode. Implement Network Policies.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

Enforce a strong password policy and implement regular password changes. Enable a personal firewall on agency workstations, configured to deny unsolicited connection requests. Scan all software downloaded from the Internet prior to executing. Do not add users to the local administrators group unless required.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the most effective ones you can implement include: Employing employee training and awareness With human error often being the weakest link in any company’s operations, it's vital for nonprofits to educate their staff and volunteers, which includes safe internet practices and recognizing potential threats that exist.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2023

Corporate employees frequently utilize the vast resources of the internet to address various business issues on a daily basis. However, conventional solutions such as antivirus, firewalls, and other detection and blocking tools can only offer a limited level of security. Local browser isolation is the traditional method.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

Secure Access Service Edge combines networking solutions like SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security like firewall as a service (FWaaS), cloud access security broker (CASB), and secure web gateway (SWG). This approach simplifies deployment and ensures that security policies are applied across the entire environment.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 25, 2022

These default credentials are not secure—they may be physically labeled on the device or even readily available on the internet. Strong password policies are not implemented. Open ports and misconfigured services are exposed to the internet. Misconfigured cloud services are common targets for cyber actors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2023

Secure Access Service Edge combines networking solutions like SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security like firewall as a service (FWaaS), cloud access security broker (CASB), and secure web gateway (SWG). This approach simplifies deployment and ensures that security policies are applied across the entire environment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

By Anand Oswal, Senior Vice President and GM at cyber security leader Palo Alto Networks Connected medical devices, also known as the Internet of Medical Things or IoMT, are revolutionizing healthcare, not only from an operational standpoint but related to patient care. What is the device supposed to do?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2023

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. For example, a typical NGFW now may be equipped with firewalling, SD-WAN, a Wi-Fi controller for SD-Branch, an Ethernet controller, and zero-trust functionality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

In many hybrid scenarios, workers are moving between secure office environments with enterprise network monitoring, firewalls, event and data analytics to vulnerable home networks that may have rogue devices, weak passwords or outdated equipment. For this reason, the zero trust approach must be considered.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The problem is that threat actors are able to get through the castle gates (firewalls) and once in, are able to evade the castle guards (IPS). It enables Internet at Scale. You can create policies that affect workloads. Persistence means that virtual machines can move dynamically, while the policies follow the workloads.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 4, 2020

Enforce a strong password policy and implement regular password changes. Enable a personal firewall on agency workstations, configured to deny unsolicited connection requests. Scan all software downloaded from the Internet prior to executing. Do not add users to the local administrators group unless required.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 13, 2022

That is, our primary security controls of firewalls, intrusion prevention, network segmentation, and wired network security are no longer the primary method to manage technology in a COE. Access is provided based on a dynamic risk-based policy. Organizations must adapt their security controls to home networks and even public WiFi.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 13, 2020

Enforce a strong password policy. Enable a personal firewall on agency workstations that is configured to deny unsolicited connection requests. Scan all software downloaded from the internet prior to executing. Restrict users' permissions to install and run unwanted software applications. USB thumb drives, external drives, CDs).

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Linux Academy

MAY 5, 2019

In the past few weeks, we’ve discussed patch management and using vulnerability scanning to see what vulnerabilities are in your infrastructure, and then we dove into the importance of data backups , as well as passwords and policies such as using MFA and proactively identifying compromised passwords to help secure your infrastructure.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 11, 2024

The exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, simultaneously projected to exceed 75 billion by 2025 by Statista, presents substantial security and privacy challenges, particularly in the context of widespread 5G connectivity.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Laser-Radio Links Upgrade the Internet. Internet carriers. Nor did he delve headlong into the complexities of firewall protections. Technology that uses parallel radio and laser links to move data through the air at high speeds, in wireless hops of up to 10 kilometers at a time, is in trials with three of the largest U.S.

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Linux Academy

MAY 5, 2019

In the past few weeks, we’ve discussed patch management and using vulnerability scanning to see what vulnerabilities are in your infrastructure, and then we dove into the importance of data backups , as well as passwords and policies such as using MFA and proactively identifying compromised passwords to help secure your infrastructure.

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Linux Academy

MAY 6, 2019

In the past few weeks, we’ve discussed patch management and using vulnerability scanning to see what vulnerabilities are in your infrastructure, and then we dove into the importance of data backups , as well as passwords and policies such as using MFA and proactively identifying compromised passwords to help secure your infrastructure.

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Galido

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A VPN, or virtual private network, is a network that is constructed typically usually the Internet to connect to a private network, such as a company’s internal network. Sadly, standard security solutions like firewalls and antiviruses aren’t sufficient enough to protect you. What is a VPN.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2022

The risks can be mitigated however, with a managed firewall, endpoint security, good policies, and user training. An ideal ICT partner should provide one monthly bill for all your needs, from business-grade internet to voice, managed network, data, print and cybersecurity.

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Galido

JULY 27, 2018

As soon as you connect to the Internet using your smartphone or PC, you become a target for hackers, viruses, malicious programs and different new threats that are seemingly appearing with every passing day. Standard security solutions like firewalls and antiviruses aren’t sufficient enough to protect you. What is a VPN?

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CTOvision

MAY 20, 2015

Gourley : You mentioned China, but can you give any insights into why their approach to the Internet differs so much from the U.S. and most other nations are NOT going to adopt the Chinese vision for the Internet. Becker : The U.S. vision for cyberspace and the Chinese vision differ significantly. the ends justify the means.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

Under this assumption, firewalls and secure web gateways took precedence, while endpoint security faded in the background. With the majority of the workforce operating out in the open, no longer air walled from the internet, the enterprise attack surface has expanded largely. Explosion of the attack surface.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

However, no matter how many firewalls we put in place or how effectively we implement two-factor authentication we still need to understand the weakest link in our security system: our employees. Most companies have policies that state that they will punish employees who make security mistakes.

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Galido

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The growth of the Internet has increased the magnitude and with that, it has increased the chances of data theft. This may type of data, encryption and security controls may provide security when data is at rest, inside the firewall. Advanced DLP solutions should prompt employees of data use that may violate company policy.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

With the advance in technology, more and more people are exposed to the internet. Gradually they are learning to utilize the Internet for their daily requirements. What’s their refund policy and free trial policy? What’s their refund policy, if any, when the trial period has ended? What about expansion?

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