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Easily migrate to the cloud with CIS Hardened Images
CIS offers virtual images hardened in accordance with the CIS Benchmarks, a set of vendor agnostic, internationally recognized secure configuration guidelines. CIS Hardened …

Cardiologist charged for use and sale of ransomware
The US Attorney’s Office is charging a Venezuelan cardiologist with attempted computer intrusions and conspiracy to commit computer intrusions. The charges stem from his use …

Mastering microsegmentation for enterprise applications
Network segmentation is one of the defensive practices used by many enterprises to stop the spread of malware in the ecosystem. Servers and databases are grouped together by …

Why cyber security can’t just say “no“
There was a time, not long ago, when there were only so many ways of accomplishing an information technology task. Whether you were building a website, setting up a new …

Emotet is the most common malware
HP announced that the HP Wolf Security threat research team has identified a 27-fold increase in detections resulting from Emotet malicious spam campaigns in Q1 2022, compared …

Remote work hazards: Attackers exploit weak WiFi, endpoints, and the cloud
Infoblox unveils a global report examining the state of security concerns, costs, and remedies. As the pandemic and uneven shutdowns stretch into a third year, organizations …

Best practices for healthcare delivery organizations to manage supply chain cybersecurity risks
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) released a paper titled Healthcare Supply Chain Cybersecurity Risk Management. Drafted by the Health Information Management Working Group, …

EU’s NIS 2 Directive to strengthen cybersecurity requirements for companies
The Commission welcomes the political agreement reached between the European Parliament and EU Member States on the Directive on measures for a high common level of …

The most insecure and easily hackable passwords
No matter how annoying juggling too many passwords can be, for better or worse they are one thing end users have control over. But while choosing a password is easy, choosing …

Recovering from a cybersecurity earthquake: The lessons organizations must learn
It’s been over a year since the SolarWinds supply chain hack sent shockwaves through thousands of organizations worldwide, but this cybersecurity earthquake is by no means …

79% of organizations have activated a disaster recovery response within the past 12 months
Zerto recently commissioned IDC to conduct a major ransomware and disaster preparedness survey, which revealed that 79% of respondents have activated a disaster recovery (DR) …

Where do federal agencies stand with zero trust implementation?
One year after the president’s executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity, federal agencies are making steady progress toward their zero trust security goals, …
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