Preventing data breaches is often seen as a technical endeavor, as IT and security leaders employ various skills and technology to ensure the safety of an establishment or the general public's information. As effective as these security methods may be, psychological gaps must be recognized as well.At the end of the day, humans are responsible for setting and entering passwords … [Read more...] about Understanding Password Psychology to Prevent Data Breaches
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Deception Technologies: Improving Incident Detection and Response
According to the M-Trends 2021 report by FireEye, the median time for an attacker to remain unnoticed in an enterprise's infrastructure is 24 days. This is enough to identify the weakest points in the infrastructure, gain access, and escalate the attack. It would be a mistake to say that the business owners are not taking steps to protect their assets and data. As per the … [Read more...] about Deception Technologies: Improving Incident Detection and Response
5 Benefits of SSO & Why You Must Implement It
Remote work and workplaces that are connected digitally have never been more common. This means that employees are using more devices and more internet-based applications on an unprecedented scale. While this is a benefit in terms of worker connectivity and communication, it can create a challenge for IT specialists and departments. With so many applications, employees can … [Read more...] about 5 Benefits of SSO & Why You Must Implement It
How to Reach Ultimate Data Safety Levels in 2021
Data breach stats for the first half of 2018, for example, saw the exposure of 4.5 billion data records directly related to data breaches. During the following year it was reported that a collection of 2.7 billion identity records (including 21 million unique passwords and 774 million unique email addresses) had been uploaded online for sale. And although this data breach trend … [Read more...] about How to Reach Ultimate Data Safety Levels in 2021
7 Steps Towards Keeping Yourself Safe Online
October is the ENISA Europe wide Cybersecurity Awareness Month (here), which of course, should apply every month. There have been some notable steps forward in assuring digital and information security provided by organisations but the advice for individuals provided by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on personal protection remain broadly unchanged since the agency … [Read more...] about 7 Steps Towards Keeping Yourself Safe Online
