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Funding women-led cybersecurity startups: Where are we at?
In 2020, cybersecurity companies raised $8.9 billion globally, and in 2021 the amount jumped (significantly) to over $21 billion. While the data is very exciting and promising …
The role of streaming machine learning in encrypted traffic analysis
Organizations now create and move more data than at any time ever before in human history. Network traffic continues to increase, and global internet bandwidth grew by 29% in …
Week in review: F5 BIG-IP flaw, critical bugs in Aruba and Avaya network switches, Patch Tuesday forecast
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews: May 2022 Patch Tuesday forecast: Look beyond just application and OS updates April …
May 2022 Patch Tuesday forecast: Look beyond just application and OS updates
April Patch Tuesday provided an extensive set of operating system and application updates after a few quiet months. Microsoft addressed 97 vulnerabilities in Windows 10, and …
Smart government agencies are opting for multicloud environments
In recent years, there had been more cyberattacks, ransomware events, and an ongoing discovery of potential vulnerabilities within an IT infrastructure. In addition, the …
Nothing personal: Training employees to identify a spear phishing attack
Phishing attacks began years ago as simple spam, designed to trick recipients into visiting sites and becoming customers. In the meantime, they have morphed into a worldwide …
Tackling the threats posed by shadow IT
While remote technologies have allowed businesses to shift their workforces online, this flexibility has created a swathe of challenges for IT teams who must provide a robust …
Passwords are secrets that should never be shared
A weak password is one of the easiest way for attackers to steal valuable information about a person from their accounts, and then commit crimes with it. The stronger the …
7 threat detection challenges CISOs face and what they can do about it
Security operations (SecOps) teams continue to be under a constant deluge of new attacks and malware variants. In fact, according to recent research, there were over 170 …
How to identify vulnerabilities with NMAP
In this video for Help Net Security, Shani Dodge Reiner, Development Team Leader at Vicarius, explains how to identify vulnerabilities using the NMAP tool. NMAP is a very …
Self-promotion in cybersecurity: Why you should do it, and how
The cybersecurity market is hot! In 2021 Pinpoint Search Group recorded 300 funding rounds invested into cybersecurity vendors that added up to over $20 billion. 158 of those …
The 6 steps to a successful cyber defense
The Ransomware Spotlight Year-End Report from Ivanti, conducted in partnership with Cyber Security Works and Cyware, found that there is now a total of 157 ransomware families …
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