At some point, almost every organization needs to assess their ability to meet regulatory compliance guidelines. Having all network, systems, and security data in check for an audit can be a challenge for IT teams. This is primarily because most regulatory standards mandate the collection and storage of logs for compliance. PCI DSS: Specifies the […]
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Top Seven Reasons Why You Should Not Share Your Passwords One of the most challenging aspects of our modern digital lives is managing all the online accounts most of us now have. Credit monitoring firm, Experian®, found that 25- to 34-year-olds register for an average of 40 accounts per email address. However, across those 40 […]
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Do you regularly clean up your Active Directory® (AD)? Have you set a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly schedule, or do you wait until you receive a change request? If you neglect AD cleanup and maintenance, your environment will get cluttered and increasingly difficult to navigate. Accounts become inactive for a variety of reasons, such as […]
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Organizations implement disaster recovery (DR) for a number of reasons, some of which include business continuity, data preservation, and regulatory compliance. DR is the process for restoring your systems to a previous fully functional state. However, many people don’t realize that a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server can help with your organization’s DR efforts. A […]
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The Wanna Decryptor (aka “WannaCry“) ransomware strain that surfaced over the past couple of weeks, and quickly gained momentum globally, serves as a harsh reminder of the troubles businesses face when putting basic security best practices on the back burner. With software solutions available to handle everything from patch management to more complex functions—such as […]
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In most organizations, regardless of industry, file transfers happen all day, every day. These transfers take place in the forms of data exchanges like email, network shares, homegrown File Transfer Protocol (FTP) tools, and even free online FTP services. Every employee shares information, internally or externally, throughout the day, which raises security concerns. It may […]
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It’s every customer and employee’s right to ask for and receive assistance from the IT help desk. The help desk team is obligated to, well, help. It is also their duty to maintain the secrecy and confidentiality of any and all privileged information. This means that in addition to providing technical support quickly and efficiently, […]
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Each industry has standards and regulatory compliance concerns. The health care industry arguably has the most well-known, thanks to the Health Insurance and Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) and its efforts to keep electronic protected health information (ePHI) safe. HIPAA compliance is essential for organizations that store, maintain or transmit ePHI and staying on top of […]
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Just as ISPs, hosting companies, businesses, and even consumers were beginning to close down the vulnerabilities that enable computers to become zombies – botnets – a new class of hosts arrives. Always online, Internet-facing, with hardcoded (often in the firmware) default passwords, the smart thermostat, webcam, digital video recorder, or consumer router-zombie is here. This […]
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“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” –Stephen Hawking Search for the term “threat intelligence” and you’ll get 12.3 million hits. Not all of them are relevant to cyber, but still, a lot of these hits apply, and you can see why at the RSA conference. There are many forms of threat intelligence with […]
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“Horizontal expansion loses the depth, though excessive depth that only provokes darkness is futile. Therefore a balance between depth and vastness is essential in learning” ― Privavrat Thareia This year, consider spending more time protecting the vast bytes that make up your corporate data. As an IT or security professional, do you know how much data […]
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The average total cost of a data breach right now is $3.79 million, according to the 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis. Cyber attacks are one of the top reasons for this exorbitant sum. Hackers attack websites to gather commercial information, consumer information, or targeted profiles. Data breach attempts need to be thwarted quickly. […]
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