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What good is the IT network at your organization if it isn’t secure? Learn about technology to prevent cyberattacks, store and recover data, secure your WiFi and remote capabilities, and more.

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Honeywell Expands OT Cybersecurity Portfolio With Acalvio Technologies

January 11, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Honeywell and Acalvio Technologies have launched a new solution designed to detect known and unknown (zero-day) attacks across the operational technology (OT) environments in commercial buildings. Honeywell Threat Defense Platform (HTDP) powered by Acalvio uses “sophisticated active defense – featuring autonomous deception tactics to outsmart attackers,” providing “high fidelity threat detection,” according to the company. […]

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Microsoft January Patch Tuesday

Admins Have 122 Microsoft Bugs To Patch This Month

January 11, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft has released patches for nearly 100 vulnerabilities this Patch Tuesday, including three Exchange remote code execution bugs and an HTTP protocol stack remote code execution vulnerability. Despite the unusually large amount of patches to start the year, none are listed as being actively exploited. However, six are listed as publicly known at the time […]

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Cyberattacks Increased By 50% In 2021

January 11, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Not that anyone assumed differently, but cyberattacks proliferated the internet in 2021, with researchers noting 50% more attacks per week on corporate networks compared to 2020, according to cybersecurity firm Check Point. The 2021 data comes just a few months after the company reported in October a 40% increase in cyberattacks globally. However, the fourth […]

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Log4j Highlights the Need for a Software Bill of Materials; Here’s How to Create One

January 11, 2022 Bren Briggs, VP of DevOps and Cybersecurity at Hypergiant. Leave a Comment

Just days into the new year and the cybersecurity community is already playing catch up thanks to the recent Log4j vulnerability which illuminated major setbacks in how organizations deal with its own software and open-source packages on which its relies on. In particular, organizations have been caught off guard in auditing its own systems, giving […]

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Ransomware

Are Ransomware And Terrorism Threats Equal?

January 10, 2022 Alyssa Borelli Leave a Comment

Almost two-thirds (60%) of IT decision makers believe ransomware threats should be prioritized at the same level as terrorism, according to latest research by Venafi, a Salt Lake City-based provider of machine identify management solutions. The research comes after the U.S Department of Justice raised the threat level of ransomware following the Colonial Pipeline attack […]

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Tech Hiring Thrives as National Employment Growth Slows

January 7, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Technology-related employment and hiring opportunities continue to expand, according to an analysis by CompTIA, the Downer’s Grove, ILL.-based nonprofit association for the IT industry and workforce. Technology industry companies added 11,000 workers in December, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shows the 13th consecutive month of tech employment growth at […]

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Researchers Discover Google Docs Comment Exploit

January 7, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Threat actors are leveraging the comment feature in Google Docs and other Google collaboration tools to send malicious content, primarily to Outlook users. According to new research from cybersecurity firm Avanan, hackers have found a way to use these useful collaboration tools from Google to target Outlook users, hitting over 500 inboxes across 30 tenants, […]

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Ransomware

Ransomware Survey: IT Needs To Better Communicate Threats To C-Suite

January 7, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Thanks to a year in which ransomware attacks wreaked havoc on corporate networks, IT and cybersecurity professionals have an opportunity to provide more detailed updates and actionable intelligence to corporate leaders, according to a recent survey from (ISC)². The information security nonprofit membership association’s survey of 750 C-level executives across the U.S. and U.K. show […]

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