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Using a Password Manager When Changing iPhones

You should use a password manager when upgrading to a new iPhone because it will make transferring all your account credentials more seamless and you’ll be able to update any weak passwords, making your accounts more secure. Although Apple provides a built-in password manager, iCloud Keychain is not as safe as using a dedicated password manager. A password manager offers more security and convenience to store, manage and share your personal information.

Key Steps to Improving Strategic Vendor Management

Efficient procurement is crucial to the success of any corporate organization. Hence, companies should consider strategies for effective vendor risk management. Strategic Vendor Management (SVM) continuously monitors and improves vendor relationships and exchanges. If a vendor performs only one task, SVM asks you to have that vendor perform multiple tasks instead, allowing for cost savings and mitigating cybersecurity risks.

The Benefits of Using a Compliance-Oriented Data Management Platform

Data drives the modern economy. The right type, amount, and quality of data lets organizations better understand their customers. This understanding enables companies to build more accurate customer profiles, design personalized marketing programs, refine retention strategies, and nurture meaningful long-term customer relationships. Simply collecting this data, however, is not enough. Data only becomes valuable when it is transformed into insightful information.

Five Guys Employee Email Breach: SSNs Stolen

Five Guys Enterprises, LLC oversees the management of services delivered by “Five Guys,” a national restaurant chain throughout the US. The restaurant is available in more than 1,450 locations, 900+ cities, and every state (except Alaska). Their prominent location distribution and policy of every order being “served to go” makes Five Guys a top contender for dinner; however, now, their prosperous history may be at risk following a data breach stemming from their employees.

Hybrid network security: Azure Firewall and AlgoSec solutions

In today’s dynamic digital landscape, the security of hybrid networks has taken center stage. As organizations increasingly adopt cloud solutions, like Azure, the complexities of securing hybrid networks have grown significantly. In this blog post, we’ll provide an overview of the key products and solutions presented in the recent webinar with Microsoft, highlighting how they address these challenges.

Understanding the 3 Key Stages of Money Laundering 2023

Money laundering is a pervasive and complex issue, with criminals going to great lengths to legitimize the proceeds from their illicit activities. They aim to obscure the origins of “dirty money” and reintroduce it into the economy through legitimate means, eluding law enforcement authorities. This process comprises three crucial Money Laundering Stages: Placement, Layering, and Integration.

Latest Vulnerability Triggers Record-breaking DDoS Attacks

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have consistently been a chief concern of security teams. However, common misconceptions still exist. Some view that DDoS attacks are merely nuisances or inconveniences – that they are volumetric and straightforward to defend against – and that the DDoS defenses most organization use today are fully capable of rendering these threats obsolete.

7 Types of Social Engineering Attacks

When a ransomware group launched twin cyber attacks on casino giants MGM and Caesars, they only needed the accidental participation of the organizations’ outsourced IT help desk to get started. It was social engineering — in this case impersonation over the phone, or vishing— that gave the hackers the information they needed to launch a ransomware attack that cost both casinos millions.

The Outstanding ROI of KnowBe4's Security Awareness Training Platform

Let me give you a quick introduction. My name is Stu Sjouwerman. I’m the Founder and CEO of KnowBe4, my 5th startup. I have been in IT for 40+ years, the last 25 of those in information security. In my last company we built an antivirus engine from scratch and combined it with intrusion detection, prevention and a firewall. And we ran into a persistent problem nobody seemed to be able to address; end-users being manipulated by bad actors to let them in.