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Fine-tuning Germany’s cybersecurity strategy
Recently, Eileen Walther, Northwave’s Country Manager for Germany and specialized in information security, was elected the new Vice President of the Cyber Security Council …

This year’s biggest cyber threats
OpenText announced the Nastiest Malware of 2022, a ranking of the year’s biggest cyber threats. For the fifth year running, experts combed through the data, analysed different …

CIS Hardened Images on AWS Marketplace
Does your organization spend countless resources hardening operating systems in the cloud? That’s why CIS pre-hardens virtual machine (VM) images to CIS Benchmark …

Cyber attackers view smaller organizations as easier targets
Attackers view smaller organizations as having fewer security protocols in place, therefore requiring less effort to compromise. This Help Net Security video showcases how …

Dissect: Open-source framework for collecting, analyzing forensic data
A game changer in cyber incident response, the Dissect framework enables data acquisition on thousands of systems within hours, regardless of the nature and size of the IT …

API authentication failures demonstrate the need for zero trust
The use of application programming interfaces (APIs) has exploded as businesses deploy mobile apps, containers, serverless computing, microservices, and expand their cloud …

Assessing the state of the internet to make smart security decisions
The internet constantly changes as new technologies are developed, and vulnerabilities are discovered. At the same time, organizations expand their operations that interact …

7 cybersecurity audiobooks you should listen to this year
Audiobooks have gained enormous popularity among book lovers for a variety of factors, including their convenience, which enables listeners to learn while running errands or …

CIS Controls v8: Safeguards to mitigate the most prevalent cyber-attacks
The CIS Critical Security Controls (CIS Controls) are a prioritized set of safeguards to mitigate cyber-attacks against systems and networks. They are mapped to and referenced …

Average company with data in the cloud faces $28 million in data-breach risk
Hard-to-control collaboration, complex SaaS permissions, and risky misconfigurations — such as admin accounts without multi-factor authentication (MFA) — have left a dangerous …

When transparency is also obscurity: The conundrum that is open-source security
Open-source software (OSS) has a lot of advocates. After all, why would we continuously try and write code that solves problems that others have already solved? Why not share …

Why digital trust is the bedrock of business relationships
In this Help Net Security video, David Samuelson, CEO at ISACA, talks about how enterprises approach digital trust. While nearly 98% of respondents to an ISACA survey say that …
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