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How task management and easy collaboration can help your security team

Issued by: Help Net Security

Many individuals struggle with organizing their day-to-day work. In instances where they are expected to perform many disparate tasks, disorganization could end up being fatal for their job and their career. Disorganization could also be fatal for businesses, especially for startups where a small team is trying to cover a lot of ground and strictly…

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Cisco Warns of Zero-Day Vulnerability in Security Appliances

Issued by: Security Week

The zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-15454, is related to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) inspection engine used in the company’s Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software. A remote and unauthenticated attacker can exploit the vulnerability to cause an affected device to reload or consume CPU resources, resulting in a denial-of-service (DoS)…

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How to protect your organization from insider threats, the #1 risk for data loss

Issued by: Help Net Security

Is your security approach exposing your organization to risk? The answer is “yes” if your security strategy focuses exclusively on external threats. If the breaches of the last 24 months have taught us anything – it’s that insider threats are a cause for equal if not greater concern. In a recent survey, IT professionals were…

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Security should be a top priority when transitioning to an SD-WAN solution

Issued by: Help Net Security

Barracuda Networks today released key findings from a new global research report, “Security, Connectivity, and Control: The Challenges and Opportunities of SD-WAN.” The study surveyed IT leaders and networking and security professionals to learn how widespread SD-WAN deployments are, how organizations are deploying them, and what benefits and challenges they’re seeing. The report includes data…

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Securing campus networks became more challenging

Issued by: Help Net Security

The results of a global Infoblox survey on the state of network security at higher education institutions reveals that 81 percent of IT professionals believe securing campus networks has become more challenging in the last two years. The report titled “Defending Networks at Higher Learning Institutions – Heroes Needed” surveyed over 600 students, IT professionals…

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Organizations need to shift strategies, adopt a proactive approach to cybersecurity

Issued by: Help Net Security

The cybersecurity market has reached a point whereby organisations need to shift their strategies and have a new, proactive approach to their cybersecurity, according to a report by 451 Research. Hurdles that organizations need to overcome to successfully shift their strategies These were identified as: A profusion of tools and data that complicates – and…

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The state of network security in organizations with 1000+ employees

Issued by: Help Net Security

Security team size at the largest organizations does not scale with the number of overall employees, but they are more likely to include staff with specialized roles, say the results of the latest survey conducted by Osterman Research in partnership with ProtectWise. The similarities They interviewed 400 security analysts in the US to uncover the…

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U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules

Issued by: Security Week

The Commerce Department said the announcement is part of an effort to “modernize US data privacy policy for the 21st century.” The move follows the implementation this year of ramped up data protection rules imposed by the European Union, and a new privacy law enacted in California. Both measures will impact internet firms whose websites…

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U.S. Takes Off the Gloves in Global Cyber Wars: Top Oficials

Issued by: Security Week

National Security Advisor John Bolton said the country’s “first fully articulated cyber strategy in 15 years” was now in effect. The new more aggressive posture follows a decision by President Donald Trump to revoke rules established by his predecessor Barack Obama to require high-level authority for any big military cyber operations. “Our hands are not…

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What is an RDP attack? 7 tips for mitigating your exposure

Issued by: CSO

Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is used for remotely connecting to Windows systems. In an RDP attack, criminals look for unsecured RDP services to exploit and access enterprise networks. It’s frighteningly easy to do so because many organizations fail to secure RDP services against improper access. Over the past year, RDP has become the top…