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Password Change Policy Best Practices

12 Essential Password Change Policy Best Practices

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Password change best practices are essential to securing sensitive data for both individuals and businesses. A robust password change policy is necessary to ensure sufficient defense against hackers, scammers, and security threats. Implementing best password protection practices is regarded to be an essential front-line defense. The rules protect critical information and IT infrastructures from unauthorized …

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How Cybercriminals Plan Attacks (5 steps)

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How cybercriminals plan attacks is a basic question that every cybersecurity expert needs to know. Cybercriminals use various tools and techniques to identify the vulnerabilities of their target victims. The target can either be an individual or an organization. Most cyber-attacks aim at stealing valuable information or breaching systems. Criminals plan active and passive attacks. …

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What do Virtually all Phishing Emails have in Common? (5 Things)

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What do virtually all Phishing Emails have in common?  By understanding what Phishing Emails have in common, you can quickly identify them and avoid these threats. What is phishing? Phishing is a method used by hackers to collect personal information using deceptive e-mails and websites. It’s a form of attack that uses disguised email as …

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How does email get hacked? (7 easy ways)

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How does email get hacked? There are several techniques used to gain access to an email account using a password or backdoors. With the rate of technological advancements, new technologies such as deep machine learning and strong artificial intelligence have led to more sophisticated ways of hacking emails. No email is immune to hacking.  Therefore, …

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Security Awareness During the Covid-19 Crisis

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Security incidents have increased as criminals seek to take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic. The crisis has led to a surge in the number of cyber-attacks, malicious activities, and phishing scams, making cybersecurity awareness more significant than ever before for corporations, organizations, and other business entities. In a bid to curb the virus, employers had …

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Automation in Cybersecurity

Automation and Integration in Cybersecurity

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Automation is one of the trending topics in cybersecurity. The primary reason for automating mundane and repeatable tasks is to allow people to shift focus to problem-solving activities. From a cybersecurity perspective, organizations can become more resilient to cyber-attacks by directing all the resources to these problem-solving activities. Technological advancements also bring with it more …

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Managing a cybersecurity crisis

Managing a Cybersecurity Crisis During a Pandemic

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Most enterprises have taken extraordinary measures to protect their workers and ensure business continuity. They also ensure the continuance of service delivery during the coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 disease has ravaged the world, with the total confirmed cases and deaths exceeding 3,500,000 and 248,000, respectively. However, the measures have exposed businesses to a variety of …

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Incident Response

Incident Response – A Complete Guide

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Incident response is an organized approach addressing and managing the aftermath of a security breach or cyber-attack, also known as a security incident, computer incident, or IT incident. A cyber-attack such as a data breach can cause havoc to an organization and, therefore, should be handled to limit damage and reduce associated costs and recovery …

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Ethical Hacking

Ethical Hacking – A Complete Guide

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Ethical hacking is the science of testing your computers and networks for security vulnerabilities and plugging the loopholes you find before guys with malicious intentions get a chance to exploit them. Ethical, for the sake of professional security testing techniques covered in this article, has been used to mean conforming to accepted professional standards of …

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Top 20 Cybersecurity Practices that Employees Need to Adopt

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People are a company’s most valuable asset. However, they can also be the company’s most significant security vulnerability. According to a report by Verizon data breach investigation, 27% of the total cyberattacks were caused by human error and negligence. The report also revealed that cyberattacks were not only a lurking threat to large companies and …

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17 Trends to Consider for your Cybersecurity Budget

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Today, organizations are losing up to $3.92 million in every data breach incidence. This translates to a 12% increase since the year 2014. What such statistics indicate is that cybercrime has been increasing, largely perpetuated by an emerging breed of hackers. They are motivated by new technological advances, which they use to innovate stronger, more …

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Cyber Threat Hunting

Cyber Threat Hunting – A Complete Guide

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Cyber threat hunting is the process of proactively hunting for attackers or malware that are lurking in your network system and may have laid undetected. Just like real-life hunting, cyber threat hunting can be quite challenging and requires a uniquely trained professional with considerable patience, creativity, critical thinking, and a keen eye for sporting out …

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Cybersecurity Disasters

6 Top Cybersecurity Disasters You Need to Know

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The cybersecurity landscape has been “quite busy” as organizations have committed many investments towards their cyber defenses. Despite this, cyber adversaries have managed to outmaneuver some companies, causing severe attacks and data breaches. Some of these are serious enough to be considered disasters. It is vital to know about the top cybersecurity disasters in recent …

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Top 12 Website Security Practices for 2023

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Website Security is important because hackers attack at least 50,000 websites every day. These are worrying numbers because almost every business has an online presence. The attacks target businesses of any size.  Approximately 43% of the attacks target small businesses. This means that everyone from the individual site owner to the large corporation is a …

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Computer Forensics – 7 Critical Processes

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Introduction to Computer Forensics  Computer Forensics is used to answer two of the most commonly asked questions about hacking attempts and data breaches: How did the attack happen? Is there a possibility of recurrence, and can such threats be prevented from ever happening again in the future?  There are no specific answers to these questions …

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Social Media Security

19 Social Media Security Best Practices

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Social Media Security has quickly become one of the most important issues facing business and individuals. Unlike a few years ago, social networking has asserted itself as one of the primary means for communication. Large corporations and individual users alike prefer the channel for various reasons. The most common ones are the ability to communicate …

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Cyber Threat Analysis – A Complete Guide

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Cyber threat analysis is the process of assessing the cyber activities and capabilities of unknown intelligence entities or criminals. A cybersecurity threat or “cyber threat” can be defined as a malicious act that seeks to disrupt digital life.  This act could be the disruption of a communication pathway, the damage of data, or stealing data. …

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23 Top Cybersecurity Frameworks

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Many organizations consider cybersecurity to be a priority. The need to implement effective cybersecurity frameworks grows every day. Cybercriminals continuously derive more sophisticated techniques for executing attacks. This has led to the development of various cybersecurity frameworks meant to assist organizations in achieving robust cybersecurity programs. Therefore, businesses should understand the top cybersecurity frameworks for …

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Compliance Regulations and the Future of Cybersecurity

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Compliance regulations provide organizations with acceptable standards for developing strong cybersecurity programs. Compliance is an important tenet underlying the development and maintenance of information security programs. Different regulations have emerged over the years to address increasing security challenges. Today, cyber actors are relentless in innovating new security risks, malware, trojans, and programs for compromising organizational …

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Cybersecurity Laws – A Complete Overview

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Technology has grown exponentially over the past two decades. As time goes by, we continuously benefit from and increase our dependence on technology. Web applications, drones, mobile applications, industrial automation, machine learning applications, and other technologies have changed our lives. But there are immense dangers that these technologies bring us. Therefore, our governments have introduced …

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The Security Downside of SMS-based Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)

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MFA is not always secure. Multifactor authentication (MFA) is thought to be an effective technique for identifying legitimate system users before granting access. MFA is a security mechanism that requires users to provide at least two types of correct authentication alongside valid credentials. This means that a user has to provide a correct username and …

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7 Easy Steps – How to Become a Cybersecurity Specialist

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We outline how to  become a cybersecurity specialist and enter a rewarding and exciting career path. Cybersecurity is one of the fastest-growing fields today. As a result, there is a huge skill gap in the cybersecurity industry. This gap has been widening. Organizations report that the shortage of cybersecurity skills has increased in every year …

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