Ecommerce killed the retail star. Trends show that e-commerce is quickly overtaking traditional shopping models, with 2023 predicted to have 300 million online shoppers in the US alone. This statistic is excellent news for the industry and even better news for cybercriminals. There are types of e-commerce security that will become necessary for any business wishing to engage with clients online.
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Managed Detection Response vs Managed Security Service Provider
As businesses have become more acquainted with cybersecurity demands, they’ve developed teams to address cybersecurity from a few different vantage points, all vitally important to system security. One commonly misunderstood distinction exists between managed detection and response (MDR) vs. managed security services providers (MSSPs).
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Basics of the NIST Risk Assessment Framework
In the same way businesses have security measures for their physical locations, every business needs to shore up its cyberdefenses. With cybercrime on the rise, and hackers often outpacing even the strongest and smartest cybersecurity systems, it’s extremely important to keep all architecture and practices up to date. To that end, the NIST risk assessment framework is one of the best ways to understand exactly what risks are posed to your business, as well as how to mitigate and manage them.
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Guide to Password Management in Network Security
There are many reasons password management in network security is one of the most important aspects of overall cybersecurity for all businesses. Passwords are some of the longest established and most ubiquitous cybersecurity measures available. Nearly every activity logged on hardware and software is password protected. But that doesn’t mean they’re all safe, as passwords are also some of the easiest security measures to bypass for hackers.
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Email Security Services: What to Look for in an Encryption Provider
Email has become integrated into everyday life to the point that we take it for granted. In both personal and business contexts, sending and receiving emails is often no more difficult than text messaging a friend or colleague—another innovation that’s become part of the fabric of modern life. But email is especially vulnerable to cyberattacks, which makes email security services especially important for businesses. They’re as vital as security for regular (snail) mail!
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Implementing The NIST Third-Party Risk Management Framework
What do air conditioners and credit card information have in common? They were both involved in third-party hacks. Target stores, unfortunately, suffered a point-of-sales attack in early 2014, which was a result of the third-party supplier vulnerability, specifically a vulnerability in the building’s air conditioning units. Even more unfortunately – NIST third-party risk management framework was unknown.
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Your Basic FAIR Risk Asssessment Guide
Your organization manages data threats every day and new ones are constantly appearing. You might feel safe if you meet industry cybersecurity compliance standards but this doesn’t mean that all of the potential risks have been identified. This is why we’ve created your basic FAIR methodology risk assessment guide.
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Top 5 Security Tools in E-commerce
If you’re a new or developing business in the e-commerce sector, congratulations! Online selling and shopping are seeing perennial growth; one study of overall global market trends predicts that e-commerce will overtake a whopping 22 percent of all global sales by 2023, up from the 12.2 percent it commanded just five years prior in 2018. However, all that progress comes with its risks as well, and security tools in e-commerce will only become more important as the industry grows.
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Top 5 Challenges in Cyber Security Incident Management
In the world of information technology (IT) and cybersecurity, prevention is often the major focus. Companies need to have fully compliant, robust cyberdefenses in place to dissuade hackers and preclude any potential attacks. But attacks still do happen, and a vital part of security is knowing how to detect and respond to them when they occur. Thus, cyber security incident management is one of the most important areas of overall IT management.
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Conducting a Data Breach Tabletop Exercise
Although no one hopes for disasters, they are usually inevitable. So, it’s always beneficial to prepare ahead for them. Organizations are not immune to disasters, and data breach is a disaster that could cripple the information system of business organizations that don’t implement proper data breach tabletop exercises. In recent times, cyberattacks have been on the rise and data breaches, an outcome of these attacks, are becoming more frequent.