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Patching Conundrum: 5-Year Old Flaw Again Tops Most-Hit List

Issued by: DataBreach Today

A five-year old vulnerability in Fortinet SSL VPNs remains one of the most widely exploited flaws in enterprise networks, despite repeat patch warnings. So say cybersecurity officials across the U.S. and its Five Eyes intelligence alliance partners in a new joint security advisory detailing the 12 most common vulnerabilities and exposures that were most “routinely…

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Australia Centralizes Government Cybersecurity Response

Issued by: DataBreach Today

The Australian government says it will centralize its approach to securing federal agencies by appointing a coordinator to head the new National Office for Cyber Security within the Department of Home Affairs. The appointment comes after the country down under experienced back-to-back major data breaches. Medibank, Australia’s largest private health insurer, saw Russia-based ransomware hackers…

Cloud Security

Three Approaches to Cybersecurity Planning for Post-Pandemic Cloud Adoption

Issued by: Security Intelligence

The global pandemic has been dictating how the whole world is reforming, businesses included. Different forums and analyst reports are increasingly calling out the future of businesses as they are moving their workloads to the cloud gradually. IDC “expects 2021 to be the year of multi-cloud” as the global COVID-19 pandemic reinforces the need for…

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Board Directors Need to Get Involved With Cyber Risk Governance

Issued by: Security Intelligence

Board directors are under a lot of pressure. They know that it’s only a matter of time before their organization suffers a cyber incident, and all eyes will naturally be on the directors themselves to see if they were properly exercising their risk oversight. Directors also know that all interactions with the CISO will be…