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Buyer’s guide: Data protection for hybrid clouds

Network World

Data protection is a broad category that includes data security but also encompasses backup and disaster recovery, safe data storage, business continuity and resilience, and compliance with data privacy regulations. And 80% of enterprises have adopted a hybrid computing model. Microsoft and Unitrends are niche players, according to Gartner.

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Website spoofing: risks, threats, and mitigation strategies for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Malware distribution The opportunistic nature of website spoofing allows attackers to distribute malware to users’ devices. The distribution of malware serves various purposes, from causing general system distribution to potentially being employed as a tool for more sophisticated cyberattacks.

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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, ChatGPT is eerily proficient at writing phishing emails–well-targeted at particular individuals and free from typos. A second, more pernicious risk is the fact that ChatGPT can write malware. Sometimes the malware has errors, but with simple repetition the hacker can generate multiple working versions of the code.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The outage was traced to a damaged database file; a contractor was working to correct a problem with the synchronization between live and backup databases and ended up corrupting both. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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When least privilege is the most important thing

CIO Business Intelligence

Organizations that follow the principle of least privilege can improve their security posture by significantly reducing their attack surface and risk of malware spread. There were countless types of attacks, from accidentally downloading malware to a webpage that exploited a browser bug and more. Within a ZTNA 2.0

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The Importance of an Online Encryption Policy

CTOvision

Malware Bytes defines the symmetric key encryption using an illustration where two communicating computers must know the secret code to encrypt and decrypt information. An example of symmetric key encryption is AES, which is the standard encryption used by the US government. Symmetric key encryption.

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How Cybersecurity is Changing in the Post-Pandemic Era

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, one ransomware gang publicly disclosed a CEO’s affair, complete with incriminating pictures. Traditionally, attackers would just drop their malware on the endpoint and run it. When the virtual machine started, the malware was loaded only inside of the virtual machine. The goal: a BIG payout. C-level support.