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How to Protect Your Business from Data Leaks

Jul 19, 2024 By Tim Szigeti In Panoptica
Friday, Jul 19th, 2024 In this blog, we're going to discuss how you can protect your business from data leaks that can result from insecure application programming interfaces. Cloud native applications are composed of loosely coupled microservices, which are predominantly intercommunicating via APIs.
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Rubrik

CrowdStrike & Rubrik Customer Content Update Recovery For Windows Hosts

Jul 19, 2024 By Joshua Stenhouse In Rubrik
Joint customers utilizing Rubrik for immutable backup are recommended to utilize Rubrik in-place recoveries for impacted Windows VMware Virtual Machines (VMs), standard VM restores for Azure VMs, AWS EC2 instances, and live mounts for Hyper-V and AHV VMs. For VMware VMs this significantly reduces the recovery time by only recovering the changed blocks required to revert the VM to a snapshot before the 04:09 UTC CrowdStrike host update.
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bitsight

CrowdStrike Outage: Short-Term Actions and Strategic Priorities for the Future

Jul 19, 2024 By Derek Vadala In BitSight
As most in the industry are aware, a defective content update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor for Windows led to a global cascade of system outages affecting critical industry sectors such as transportation, banking, healthcare, and public safety. Many enterprises and government agencies around the world are still actively managing their response to this incident.
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knowbe4

78% of Organizations Are Targets of Ransomware Attacks Two or More Times in Twelve Months

Jul 19, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4
New data puts the spotlight on the frequency and impact of modern ransomware attacks, highlighting the overconfidence organizations are showing in their ability to defend and respond to attacks. If you’re like one of the organizations surveyed in Halcyon’s latest Ransomware CISO Survey report, the findings were quite eye opening.
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knowbe4

CrowdStrike Phishing Attacks Appear in Record Time

Jul 19, 2024 By Stu Sjouwerman In KnowBe4
I have been the CEO of an anti-virus software developer. We had a special acronym for catastrophic events like this, a so-called "CEE". As in Company Extinction Event. Within hours of mass IT outages on Friday, a surge of new domains began appearing online, all sharing one common factor: the name CrowdStrike. As the company grapples with a global tech outage that has delayed flights and disrupted emergency services, opportunistic cybercriminals are quick to exploit the chaos.
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upguard

Preparing for Cybersecurity Audits: Insights from US Regulations

Jul 19, 2024 By Leah Sadoian In UpGuard
Cybersecurity regulations often include audits that assess and strengthen an organization’s defenses against increasing cyber threats. In the United States, various cybersecurity regulations, including HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS, and more, require audits. Each audit ensures your organization meets the required standards outlined in the regulation while also strengthening its overall cybersecurity framework.
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upguard

Navigating Cybersecurity Requirements Under the Dodd-Frank Act

Jul 19, 2024 By Nicholas Sollitto In UpGuard
Over the last decade, cybersecurity has emerged as a critical concern for financial institutions. With cyberattacks increasing in frequency and sophistication, it has become imperative for institutions in the financial sector to safeguard sensitive data and implement robust data protection measures. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly known as the Dodd-Frank Act, plays a crucial role in regulating the American financial services industry.
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WatchGuard

Understanding the Global IT Outage Caused by a CrowdStrike Update

Jul 19, 2024 By Corey Nachreiner In WatchGuard
Today’s global IT outage affecting Microsoft Windows users was caused by a bug in a CrowdStrike product (Falcon Strike) protection content update. The resulting widespread impact demonstrates an urgent importance for maintaining strong quality assurance (QA) processes before products or their updates are released into production.
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Arctic Wolf

Technical Fix for Global IT Outage - CrowdStrike and Microsoft Incident

Jul 19, 2024 By Arctic Wolf In Arctic Wolf
Our team at Arctic Wolf has been following the CrowdStrike issue affecting Windows endpoints since approximately 12 AM EST on July 19th, 2024. Although Arctic Wolf’s service is not impacted, some of our customers who leverage CrowdStrike for endpoint security are experiencing widespread outages. Arctic Wolf continues to protect and monitor these customers’ environments while they focus their attention on recovering from this event.
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