The Rising Threat of Cybercrime in Healthcare Of growing concern to both patients and the professionals who facilitate their care is the growing trend of healthcare organizations being preyed upon by cybercriminals. In the United States, recent political dialogue has brought special attention to patients’ privacy rights under HIPAA and the ongoing security of their … Continued
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What is Zero Trust? Zero trust is a security model to help secure IT systems and environments. The core principle of this model is to never trust and always verify. It means never trusting devices by default, even those connected to a managed network or previously verified devices. Modern enterprise environments include networks consisting of … Continued
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Despite the best efforts of individuals to protect their own data, they cannot always account for the cybersecurity shortcomings of larger organizations such as their employers, financial institutions, and healthcare providers entrusted with their personal information. Recently, it was made painfully apparent that hotels should also be added to this list of vulnerable entities based … Continued
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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technology has become a fundamental part of identifying and guarding against cyber attacks. It is one of the essential technologies powering the modern security operations center (SOC). SIEM is an umbrella term that includes multiple technologies, including log management, security log aggregation, event management, event correlation, behavioral analytics, and … Continued
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Microsoft Azure Sentinel is an intelligent, next-generation security information and event management (SIEM) solution designed to detect threat anomalies. Azure Sentinel is also categorized as a security orchestration automated response (SOAR) service that expedites the incident detection and event response process for cybersecurity teams. Azure Sentinel provides an extra layer of security to protect critical … Continued
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Endpoint protection is a security approach that focuses on monitoring and securing endpoints, such as desktops, mobile devices, laptops, and tablets. It involves deploying security solutions on endpoints to monitor and protect these devices against cyber threats. The goal is to establish protection regardless of the endpoint’s location, inside or outside the network. In this … Continued
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Cyberthreats including malware, viruses, and other security hazards are constantly evolving and becoming more dangerous and harder to detect. This makes it quite difficult to keep your data and information protected nowadays. Unless you are sure that you are absolutely protected, which is wishful thinking, you remain at risk of attacks by the latest strains … Continued
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Cybercriminals do not discriminate against the organization, people or industry they target. These actors look to exploit vulnerabilities in resources to intercept valuable data from small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Cyberattacks are inevitable, and organizations must have the right controls and information security systems to mitigate the impact of an attack. As cyberattacks continue to … Continued
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What Is Shift Left Security? Software development pipelines typically cycle through key four processes—design, development, testing and software or update releases. Traditional pipelines perform quality and security tests only after completing the development phase. Since there is no such thing as a perfect code, there are always issues to fix. However, if significant architectural changes … Continued
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In a SOC (security operations center), alerts originating from hundreds of systems compete to get attention. What ensues is a security analyst’s battle to beat alert fatigue while effectively defending their organization from cybersecurity threats. Alert fatigue is a major challenge faced by security operations center (SOC) teams. The stakes are even higher since they … Continued
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