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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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Top 10 Commonly Exploited Initial Attack Vectors

SecureWorld News

The advisory notes that malicious threat actors often exploit poor security configurations, weak controls, and other faulty cyber hygiene practices in order to gain initial access to a victim's system. RDP, Server Message Block (SMB), Telnet, and NetBIOS are high-risk services. Multifactor authentication (MFA) is not enforced.

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Outbound Traffic Filtering | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

This is filtering provided at the network edge by a firewall with rules (ACLs) restricting what internal users are allowed to access. Some firewalls have the ability to filter by an application (layer 7 firewalls), but we’re going to concentrate on standard packet-filtering firewalls and their capabilities.

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Technology Short Take #33

Scott Lowe

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. App Firewall? Operating Systems/Applications. If you aren’t using vSphere Host Profiles, this write-up on the VMware SMB blog might convince you why you should and show you how to get started. Virtualization.

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EP 49: LoL

ForAllSecure

Living off the Land (LoL) is an attack where files already on your machine, ie your operating system, are used against you. To see all the cool ways an attacker evaded detection in a system. So I started thinking about other ways to hide messages or even how to get malware onto a system without it being detected.

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Technology Short Take #33

Scott Lowe

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. App Firewall? Operating Systems/Applications. If you aren’t using vSphere Host Profiles, this write-up on the VMware SMB blog might convince you why you should and show you how to get started. Virtualization.

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MSP cybersecurity: What you should know

Dataconomy

Below is the list of most common threats that an MSP security system should be able to identify and counter. resulting in a system failure. Again, a DoS attack on an MSP can then be spread on clients’ environments and result in a system-wide failure. That’s not an option for an MSP.

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