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New initiative aims to strengthen IoT security, interoperability and reliability

The Zigbee Alliance publicly announced a major ongoing initiative to make smart home and IoT products easier to develop, deploy, and sell across ecosystems. The All Hubs …

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Businesses are struggling to implement adequate IAM and PAM processes, practices and technologies

Businesses find identity and access management (IAM) and privileged access management (PAM) security disciplines difficult yet un-concerning. The results infer that IAM- and …

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Many are seeing the damage of cybercrime and identity theft firsthand

As massive data breaches continue to make international headlines and the Internet is an integral part of our daily lives, consumers are now grasping the risks they face. In a …

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When it comes to email-based threats, Emotet dominates

Emotet displaced credential stealers, stand-alone downloaders and RATs and became the most prominent threat delivered via email, Proofpoint has shared. According to the …

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BlueKeep RDP flaw: Nearly a million Internet-facing systems are vulnerable

Two weeks have passed since Microsoft released security fixes and mitigation advice to defang exploits taking advantage of CVE-2019-0708 (aka BlueKeep), a wormable …

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IoT cyberattacks are the new normal, the security mindset isn’t

Eight in ten organizations have experienced a cyberattack on their IoT devices in the past 12 months, according to new research by Irdeto. Of those organizations, 90% …

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Structural integrity: Quantifying risk with security measurement

In my previous post, we set up the foundation for a risk quantification program. Many organizations have begun this part of their security strategy and are learning how to …

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SD-WAN alone cannot address the networking challenges of digital business

Enterprise IT professionals are turning to managed services for their SD-WAN deployments. At the same time, a new Cato Networks survey finds legacy telco services inadequately …

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Network automation market expected to grow to $16.9 billion by 2022

According to market research by MarketsandMarkets, the network automation market size is expected to grow from $2.3 billion in 2017 to $16.9 billion by 2022, at a Compound …

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GitHub introduces Dependabot-powered automated security fixes

GitHub, the largest code-hosting site in the world, has announced many new features and changes at the 2019 GitHub Satellite conference that took place last week in Berlin. …

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Handle personal data: What we forget is as important as what we remember

This spring, Facebook addressed the issue of permanence across its messaging platforms – from Instagram to Messenger to WhatsApp – with the aim to “set a new standard” for …

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How to diminish the great threat of legacy apps

The Equifax breach underscored the risk posed by unpatched software applications. As a refresher, 146 million customer records were exposed after a known vulnerability in …

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