You can save your business by recognizing and reporting phishing attacks. AI has enabled cyberattackers to make phishing emails look credible, but there are still a few red flags to look out for:

– A misspelled domain name or domain name with extensions (micr0soft-global.com)

– An unexpected attachment or a request to click a link to provide or verify information.

– A general sense of urgency or an unusually urgent request that seems to come from a superior, partner or customer.

If you think a message is suspicious, don’t take a chance by clicking in it. Report it to your IT department.

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Arcserve recommends moving to a zero-trust security strategy, where you eliminate trust from your infrastructure by denying access to everyone. Instead, a variety of technologies like multi-factor authentication (MFA) and role-based access controls (RBAC) only grant permissions to the right people at the right time. Zero trust gives you a multilayered defense that minimizes potential breaches. Arcserve designed UDP to support zero-trust security strategies and minimize exposure of essential data backups to external threats.

Arcserve UDP Overview Download

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DYK: 62% of U.S. companies have filed a cyber insurance claim in the last 12 months, with over 27% filing multiple claims? Get the latest research to see more cyber insurance trends in the 2024 Cyber Insurance Research Report here:

Download the 2024 Cyber Insurance Research Report

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The cyber threat landscape is a volatile and ever-changing arena where new threats constantly emerge, and old ones evolve rapidly. As a cybersecurity practitioner on the front lines, staying ahead of these threats is not just a goal but a necessity.

Understanding the role of threat intelligence in protecting your organization is crucial. It empowers you to effectively combat the ever-evolving cyber threats.

Ways to use threat intelligence to protect your organization:

• Monitor online communities for mentions of your organization or leaked credentials
• Track emerging threats and vulnerabilities relevant to your industry
• Share actionable threat intelligence with employees to increase awareness
• Collaborate with industry peers to exchange threat information and best practices

Flashpoint supports these efforts by delivering industry-leading data and enriching it with analyst insights, making it actionable for organizations. Flashpoint helps users prioritize threats, prevent account takeover, and receive tailored intelligence for specific requirements. Flashpoint’s information-sharing community facilitates collaboration within the industry, helping organizations stay ahead of emerging threats.

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Cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility. Freshworks provides continuous training to ensure your team is always prepared. #SecurityTraining #CyberAwareness #Freshworks

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🔐 October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month! 🔐 In this digital age, safeguarding our online presence is paramount. Here’s how you can participate:  

• Educate Yourself: Stay informed about the latest threats and best practices for staying secure online.
• Enable Multi-Factor Authentication: Add an extra layer of protection to your accounts.Keep Software Updated: Regularly update your devices and applications to patch vulnerabilities.
• Use Strong Passwords: Create unique, complex passwords for each account.
• Be Cautious of Phishing: Verify the legitimacy of emails and websites.
• Back Up Your Data: Protect your important files in case of cyberattacks.
• Share Knowledge: Spread the word about cybersecurity with friends and family.

Let’s work together to make the digital world safer for all!  
#Kiteworks #cybersecurityawarenessmonth #cybersecurity

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Building a Co-Managed Patch Program with N-able

What is Co-managed patching?

Co-managed patching is a partnership between an organization’s internal IT team and an MSP to either take over or share the responsibility for patching all software updates, bug fixes, security holes, and feature-adds. This improves the patching process’s efficiency, effectiveness, and security.

Customer Benefits

• Increased efficiency: The internal IT team can focus on their areas of expertise, while the MSP can handle the tasks they are better equipped to do. This frees up time and resources for the internal IT team to focus on more strategic projects.
• Enhanced security: The MSP ensures the company’s network assets do not become susceptible to exploitation or breaches – thereby helping to mitigate an organization’s security risk.
• Maintained Compliance: Helps companies subject to compliance regulations work toward avoiding unnecessary fines as patch management is often a necessary component in adhering to compliance standards.
• Improved Performance: Helps keep the organization’s computers and network systems running smoothly as regular patching can improve overall performance.

MSP Co-managed Patching services

• Manage the software patching on behalf of the internal IT team
• Develop and maintain an up-to-date inventory of all assets, operating systems, and applications and will review monthly with the internal IT team
• Regularly scan for available patches
• Apply patches to a sample of assets to test patches for issues
• Install approved patches and validate the correct installation
• Provide Tier 1 troubleshooting support to remediate any system or asset that has missing or failed patches
• Include feature/functionality updates to ensure the organization is running the most up-to-date feature set
• Document patches, test results, and deployments and review them during regular technical meetings as agreed upon by MSP and the IT lead

TL;DR

By offering co-managed patching to their portfolio of services, MSPs can expand their service portfolio and add a new revenue stream while offering a valuable service to organizations of all sizes looking to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and security of their patching processes.

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Secure Your Edge with Simplicity and Strength

In today’s world, protecting your distributed #edge—whether it’s a retail store, manufacturing line, or remote site—is more challenging than ever. Many deployments are a patchwork of disparate systems, creating a complex environment ripe for potential security breaches.

SC//Platform is built with security at its core—secure by design, #secure by default. By streamlining edge deployments and eliminating unnecessary complexity, Scale Computing not only simplifies management but also significantly reduces the attack surface.

Discover how simplicity can be your strongest defense. #Hyperconvergence

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Secure your support experiences and prevent unauthorized access with TeamViewer’s multi factor authentication.

Conditional access gives you control over which devices, users, and user groups in your organization have access to certain data sources, services, and applications via TeamViewer Tensor.

With conditional access, enterprise IT and security managers can maintain company-wide oversight of TeamViewer access and usage from a single location.

Download TeamViewer’s Tensor Conditional Access Datasheet

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Ransomware targets entire organizations with the goal of stopping business. The average ransomware payment in Q4 2023 was $570,000, with the highest reaching an astronomical $80 million. Ensure your organization knows what to look for, how to prevent ransomware, and what to do when under attack.

Download the 2024 Ransomware Emergency Kit

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Mitigating Ransomware Attacks with Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage and Immutable Backups

There is no end in sight to the ongoing campaign of ransomware attacks. What started years ago as a stunt to prove coding superiority has evolved into a global ransomware industry, complete with a full portfolio of “As-a-Service” offerings and 24-hour help desk support. This lucrative pursuit has attracted professionals and amateurs alike to the criminal fold.

There is no doubt that each and every internet-connected business today will be the target of an attack in the next 6 to 18 months. The questions for each and every potential target are simple “What are you doing to prepare for the inevitable attack? How will you protect your systems and data assets from theft and destruction?” Enter hot cloud storage with immutability for data protection.

Combined with a comprehensive backup and recovery application like Veeam, Rubrik, or Commvault, hot cloud storage provides a secure, high-performance, airgapped, and immutable data protection option that is virtually impossible for cyber terrorists to compromise. The consistent and secure practice of backing up applications, configurations, and data is considered the cornerstone of a ransomware mitigation best practice. Without having a secure backup, stored offsite and away from the impact of a breach, there is very little anyone can do but pay the ransom and hope they get all their data back.

Download Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage Mitigating Ransomware One Pager

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Imagine with AI. Secure with Trend. Discover game-changing strategies for your AI transformation.

Understanding AI’s Role in Cybersecurity

Dive into our AI hub, where innovative tech and top-tier security converge. Explore how AI empowers security teams to swiftly predict, anticipate, and detect threats. Check back regularly for updated resources on AI’s transformative impact on cybersecurity, helping you stay ahead of emerging threats and securely implement AI solutions.

Revolutionizing Cybersecurity – How to Navigate Modern Threats

Proven track record of innovation: With over two decades of AI/ML innovation, Trend anticipates and builds for the next big technology evolution to ensure security teams stay ahead with state-of-the-art cybersecurity solutions.

Next-gen AI platform: Protect identities, data, cloud assets, and more with efficient AI-driven security coverage, optimized user experiences, and powerful automations. All from the Trend Vision One™ platform.

Continuous investment in the future: Whether you’re building or adopting AI technology in your business, we secure your AI journey while defending against AI-driven fraud and threat activity.

The Power of AI, at Your Fingertips

Built for unparalleled security and innovation, Trend Vision One harnesses the power of AI to accelerate security outcomes.

Responsible AI – Trust and Ethics in AI

Embrace AI securely and responsibly with our commitment to ethical and safe practices. We ensure that your AI initiatives adhere to the highest standards of security, transparency, and ethical guidelines, safeguarding your data and fostering trust.

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Seagate is the only storage provider here at Climb to secure your data from the edge to the cloud with the leader in data storage security in flight and at rest. Seagate Cloud Object Storage also has the ISO cert that other Cloud providers do not.

Secure Data Storage Solutions

• Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs): Seagate already offers self-encrypting drives, which ensure that sensitive data is protected at rest. This feature can be marketed more aggressively to enterprises dealing with confidential information.

• Enterprise Grade Identity Management: Role- Base Identity and Access Management(IAM) with multi-factor authentication to keep all data protected

• Edge Data Security

• Smart Surveillance Solutions: Seagate can expand into edge computing by offering storage solutions that cater to AI-powered security cameras and other IoT devices used in physical security systems. Data can be encrypted and stored locally with secure access protocols.

• Data Authentication and Integrity: Ensuring that stored data in edge devices has not been tampered with by using blockchain-like solutions or other cryptographic methods for integrity verification.

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A phishing attack involves a cybercriminal masquerading as a reputable source with an enticing request or offer, usually delivered by email. The attacker lures the victim into handing over their personal information, often high-value identity credentials, through deception.

Once the cybercriminal acquires these credentials, business email compromise and account takeovers are the next steps. This is where the cybercriminal can do the most damage to your business because once they take over an employee’s legitimate account, they’re difficult to identify and stop.

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October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month!

As industrial environments become targets for sophisticated attacks, asset protection has never been more crucial.

This is the perfect time to evaluate the security of your OT environments.

How well do you know your OT security? Let’s test your awareness.

• How are you mitigating operational risks?

Identifying risk and implementing tailored solutions within your environment will ensure continuity and resilience. It’s time to address the risks before they become a problem!

• Are you fully protecting the most valuable assets in your operation?

Can you confidently identify of all your current gaps and vulnerabilities? Be proactive and prioritize asset discovery, intrusion detection and vulnerability assessments.

• Are you meeting compliance or regulatory standards?

Maintaining compliancy by securing your environment will lead to operational resilience, process integrity, and business continuity.

Upon reflection, could you be doing more to protect your industrial environment? This October, let’s bring awareness to OT cybersecurity so we can continue to keep every critical operation running without disruption.

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It takes organizations too long to identify and fix software vulnerabilities.

The result is an ever-growing number of unattended vulnerabilities that give cyberattackers a large window of opportunity to get their grip on systems and execute attacks. It’s critical to address this risk window to reduce the odds of attacks and stay secure.

Identify, prioritize and publish patches to address more third-party security updates than any solution on the market thanks to Flexera’s Software Vulnerability Manager.

• Gain visibility into all your software and its patch status

• Prioritize patching based on the risk to your business

• Take advantage of vulnerability intelligence by Secunia Research

• Connect assessment and patching to effectively reduce time to remediation

• Act quicker by leveraging the largest available repository of third-party patch data

• Automate routine patch deployment so you can focus on more complex applications

• Reduce your costs for patching

Flexera is pleased to offer an assessment from our vulnerability management platform. Get access to the complete set of tools that will enable visibility across the entire software vulnerability management spectrum: Research, Assessment, and Patching.

Download SVM Datasheet

Download Vendor Patch Module Datasheet

Download Threat Intelligence Module Datasheet

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Essential Practices for Maintaining Digital Resilience

Defense-in-Depth: A Defense-in-Depth strategy involves implementing multiple layers of security controls throughout an IT system. If one layer fails, others are still in place to protect critical assets. The layers typically include physical security, network security, endpoint security, application security, and data security.

Hardened operating system kernels: Recent advances in hardening operating system kernels for both Windows and Linux have significantly improved their security and stability. In Windows, Hypervisor-Protected Code Integrity (HVCI) ensures kernel-mode code pages are only executable if signed and verified, preventing unauthorized modifications. On the Linux side, the Kernel Self-Protection Project (KSPP) has introduced features like stack canaries, hardened user copy functions, and stricter bounds checking to eliminate entire classes of vulnerabilities.

Automated static analysis and rigorous code reviews: This process uses automated tools to analyze the source code or compiled versions for potential security vulnerabilities. Static analysis can detect issues such as memory leaks and dead code, along with security vulnerabilities like buffer overflows and race conditions. By integrating static analysis into the early stages of development, potential vulnerabilities can be identified and remediated long before the code is released.

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CISO IT Great Security Begins with Great IT ebook

Let’s face it, in IT (and every industry, now) achieving robust cybersecurity is a critical priority for enterprises of all sizes. The new eBook by CISO IT podcast host, Jason Kikta, Great Security Begins with Great IT, provides essential guidance for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), IT professionals, and cybersecurity enthusiasts. 

Just in time for the National Cybersecurity Alliance’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Jason has drafted this comprehensive guide so you can explore how solid IT practices form the foundation of effective security measures. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s covered…

• Why IT and Security Go Hand in Hand
• Incident Response Planning
• Ensuring Regulatory Compliance
• Phishing Awareness, Secure Password Practices, and Data Protection
• Benefits of Cloud Security and Securing Cloud Infrastructure
• Building a Strong IT Infrastructure
• Autonomous Endpoint Management
• Automation You Control
• How to Enhance Cybersecurity Policies
• Collaboration and Continuous Improvement

Download the eBook

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Every administrator is faced with the task of developing a central security plan and a security compliance for their company. Part of this plan involves ensuring the various security levels in the firewalls, routers, and switches are properly set. There are network security tools for this purpose, but such tools tend to be extremely expensive.

PRTG is part of your cybersecurity & physical security architecture. Our network monitoring software monitors your firewalls, CCTV cameras, ports, routers, switches, servers, and much more in real-time. With PRTG, you can rest assured that your network is secure. By thoroughly monitoring your hardware, software, VPN connections, and traffic, you’ll quickly identify irregularities and threats in your network. Our motto: Better safe than sorry!

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