When building a web application, security assessment tools are used to find errors, fix them, and secure the application in the development stage. Once applications are deployed, these efforts must continue, but the stakes are higher in live environments. The impact of a successful cyberattack will disrupt your business operations and threaten compliance. To prevent this, your organization should consider utilizing web application security assessment tools to protect web applications throughout their lifecycle. (more…)
Category: Cybersecurity Solutions
Discover comprehensive cybersecurity solutions including threat detection, vulnerability management, AI-driven defense, and strategic implementation guides to fortify your organization’s defenses.
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What is Vulnerability Remediation? Everything You Need to Know
What is vulnerability remediation? It is simply a set of processes for determining and addressing weaknesses in your cybersecurity systems. While important for all organizations, vulnerability remediation is especially critical for those dealing with customer data or whose digital assets may interact with external traffic. A robust vulnerability remediation infrastructure can address security gaps in your systems, protecting your organization from internal and external threats. (more…)
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Cyber Attacks on Banking Industry Organizations in 2021
Although viruses, ransomware, and malware continue to plague organizations of all sizes, cyber attacks on banking industry organizations have exploded in terms of both frequency and sophistication. With a year-over-year increase of 1,318%, cyber risk in the banking sector has never been higher. (more…)
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What Should Security Awareness Training Include for Healthcare Companies?
Security awareness involves everyone in your company—from clerical and administrative staff to doctors, nurses, IT staff, and even your patients. Everyone plays an important role. Unfortunately, this often leaves organizational and IT leaders wondering, “What should security awareness training include?” (more…)
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How Are Organizations at Risk from Social Engineering?
Traditionally, social engineering is a trick often used by conmen, thieves, and other malicious actors. Designed to catch the victim off-guard and unaware, primarily for the actor’s personal gain, much of today’s social engineering scams take place exclusively online. This leaves many organizational leaders asking their IT departments the same question: How are organizations at risk from social engineering? (more…)
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Why Business Should Use Disk Encryption Software
Encryption protects data by rendering it unreadable without the associated key. Thus, encrypted hard drives secure the entirety of data stored on a given device. While not a substitute for other cybersecurity measures that restrict access, disk encryption software provides a sort of “last line of defense” effort. When employed, it often means the difference between succeeding and failing to prevent data loss and its repercussions should a hacker breach your IT environment. (more…)
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What Threats Does a Web Application Security Assessment Prevent?
If your organization conducts business via web applications, it’s critical to protect your web application infrastructure from threats such as denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, malware, and ransomware. With increased web traffic due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a reported 20% surge in DDoS attacks in 2020 alone, emphasizing the need for web application security. (more…)
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What Are Managed Antivirus Services and Solutions?
Viruses have long plagued computers and users and remain a significant threat to data and IT system integrity. While your organization can choose to oversee antivirus software implementations and updates in-house, you should consider outsourcing the responsibility to a managed security services provider (MSSP) via managed antivirus service.
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How to Build a Security Operations Center
Security operations centers (SOC) comprise the people, processes, and technology that manage an organization’s cybersecurity strategy and its execution. Designing a security operations center architecture from the ground up or reorganizing an existing team will always revolve around these three components, and each necessitates specific considerations. (more…)
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Are VCISO’s in High Demand?
With so many organizations focusing on IT implementation and integration, chief information security officers (CISOs) and virtual CISOs (vCISOs) are more important than ever before. But the popularity of these roles means that CISOs are currently in very high demand, which may leave you wondering—are vCISOs in high demand, too? (more…)