Articles Tagged with ''risk management''

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Security implications of a hybrid workplace

Jim Bowers
Jim Bowers
April 5, 2021
There’s a consensus building that for many of us, our post-pandemic reality will be a hybrid workplace—one in which a mix of in-person, WFH and offsite employees is a daily occurrence. This means it will be up to IT security pros to fill the gaps and stop intruders.
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What you need to know about the deep and dark web

Alberto Casares
April 5, 2021
Billions of searches take place on the surface web every day. Synonymous with Google, this part of the web is indexed by search engines. Try searching your name and you’ll likely be met with thousands if not millions of results, a few of which are familiar to you – your social media profiles, bio on your employer’s website, mentions in the news. The surface, or “clear” web, is only the tip of the iceberg, as vast as it may seem. In fact, it makes up only 4% of the entire World Wide Web. A much larger chunk of the web, the deep web, lies beneath the surface and is not indexed by search engines – but it is still just as important for security professionals to monitor.
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CSA survey finds cloud security is improving

Survey finds that 58% of respondents are concerned about security in the cloud, while misconfigurations are one of the leading causes of breaches and outages, as public cloud adoption doubles over past two years
April 2, 2021

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) new survey, “State of Cloud Security Concerns, Challenges, and Incidents, finds that 58% of respondents are concerned about security in the cloud, while misconfigurations are one of the leading causes of breaches and outages, as public cloud adoption doubles over past two years.


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CISA releases supplemental direction on emergency directive for Microsoft Exchange Server

April 2, 2021
CISA has issued supplemental direction to Emergency Directive (ED) 21-02: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Product Vulnerabilities providing additional forensic triage and server hardening, requirements for federal agencies. Specifically, this update directs federal departments and agencies to run newly developed tools —Microsoft’s Test-ProxyLogon.ps1 script and Safety Scanner MSER—to investigate whether their Microsoft Exchange Servers have been compromised.  
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Hudson’s Bay Company incident response team wins the International Cyber League (ICL) competition

April 1, 2021
Cyberbit,announced the Hudson’s Bay Company incident response team as winner of the inaugural International Cyber League (ICL) competition, the America’s Cyber Cup, outperforming nearly 100 Security Operations Center (SOC) and incident response teams over the course of four rounds of simulated cyberattack challenges. Hudson’s Bay Company was declared the winner based on quality of performance, and time to response, achieving the title of Best Cyber Defense Team in the Americas.
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Lone worker protection: A commitment to duty of care and security

Organizations in charge of protecting lone workers must fulfill their duty of care, taking all steps reasonably possible to ensure their safety.
Maria Henriquez
April 1, 2021

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been widespread and unprecedented, creating more lone workers than ever. Organizations in charge of protecting lone workers must fulfill their duty of care, taking all steps reasonably possible to ensure the safety, well-being and physical and mental health of their employees, or else, risk leaving critical employees unprotected and at risk.


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