If you’re still requiring users to create complex passwords with a combination of letters, numbers and symbols, think again, says the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre. The NCSC, the U.K. counterpart to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), maintains that complexity requirements and making users regularly change passwords is actually less secure than […]
IT teams everywhere have been busy over the last year and a half helping their organization transition to remote work, and then back to a hybrid work environment as the COVID-19 pandemic began to subside earlier this year. As organizations were scrambling to adopt new technologies and solutions to accommodate those work models, cybercriminals seized, […]
Your organization’s employees are required once a year to complete some form of cybersecurity training, which might include a short online course, training videos and a test to wrap it all up. Whether that model of training is adequate in today’s cyber climate is another question, but what if employees aren’t even taking that rudimentary […]
Remote workers, distracted and cognitively taxed under the stresses of the pandemic may have been more likely to click on threats.
A pair of new reports from Risk Based Security find that disclosed software and hardware vulnerabilities continue to increase while reported data breaches in most parts of the world decline. For IT administrators struggling to keep pace with the rapid changes in cybersecurity, the reports provide some useful insight into exactly what you’re up against. […]
The U.S. National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released a guide that can help IT administrators and cybersecurity professionals minimize risk in Kubernetes environments as attacks targeting the open-source system are increasing. The guide comes as threat actors are looking for new ways into IT networks, including Kubernetes via supply chain […]
Cyber attacks are increasing making it harder to get cyber insurance; it’s not just an IT challenge – it’s a mainstream business issue.
When cyber incidents happen, managers shouldn’t blame employees, but must rethink their approach using positive reinforcement.
Given the attention cybersecurity has gotten over the last year and a half, it’s no surprise that security is among the top IT areas where companies are investing, according to Kaseya’s 2021 Operations Survey. The IT management software company – which itself early last month was the subject of a massive ransomware supply chain attack […]
In a typical workday — which, alas, often extends into a work evening or work weekend— sysadmins connect to remote systems using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), PuTTY, SSH, FTP, Telnet, browser-based apps, virtual private networks (VPNs), proprietary software, and many other solutions. To suggest that these tools are important is an understatement. They are essential, […]
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