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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

While a firewall is simply hardware or software that identifies and blocks malicious traffic based on rules, a human firewall is a more versatile, real-time, and intelligent version that learns, identifies, and responds to security threats in a trained manner. In the past few months, infostealer malware has gained ground.

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Document Security is More than Just Password-Protection

CIO Business Intelligence

From embedding malware or a phishing link in a document to manipulated or outright forged documents and other types of cyber fraud, the increase in document-related attacks cannot be ignored, especially if your company handles tax forms, business filings, or bank statements–the three types of most frequently manipulated documents.

Security 316
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The changing face of cybersecurity threats in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Using the “same old” low-skill tactics, common tools, and a bit of social engineering, hackers can get around complex security policies such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and identity and access management (IAM) systems. Let’s revisit the most prevalent security threats and see how they’re evolving in 2023.

Network 351
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Protecting Oil and Gas Industry Infrastructure: Strategies for Resilience

SecureWorld News

Strategies for protecting oil and gas infrastructure Regular updates and patching: Outdated software and hardware are the most common entry points for cyberattacks. Multi-factor authentication (MFA): MFA ensures that access to critical systems is granted only after verifying user credentials through multiple channels.

Industry 109
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Fingerprints to Selfies: Why This Technology is the Best Tool to Identify Customers

Galido

One such example of technology pioneered by the financial services industry is two-factor authentication. But do biometric authentication systems protect customers without being a hassle? Biometric Authentication Use Cases. And common hardware built into smartphones makes it easy for businesses to implement. You betcha’.

Tools 94
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Security and Windows 10 Will Cross Paths for Enterprises

CTOvision

1 area of spending increase in 2015, with nearly half (46%) planning to invest more in access control, intrusion prevention, and virus and malware protection. Multi-factor authentication for both cloud-based accounts and on-premise Active Directory will now be part of Windows, rather needing a hardware solution to complete.

Windows 150
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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. Think Linux doesn’t have malware? And here’s another example of malware that is targeting Linux (along with Windows). Rory McCune explains Kubernetes authentication. TL;DR: It’s not as easy as it might seem.)

Linux 113