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Eliminate compromised passwords with One Identity Password Manager & Have I Been Pwned

It's a good question, and if you're curious about whether any of your email addresses or passwords were included in a data breach, you can easily find out at HaveIBeenPwned.com. This entirely free service, managed by Microsoft Regional Director & MVP Troy Hunt, lets you enter an email address or password to see how many breaches it has been included in.

Protecting Financial Data: Best Practices for External Attack Surface Management

The threat landscape in the financial services sector continues to get more menacing. Malicious actors and cybercrime groups increasingly set their sights on the sensitive financial data that banks, moneylenders, insurance companies, credit unions, and more all store in their IT environments. Exemplifying the challenge, one recent study found that the financial sector experienced the second-highest volume of data breaches in 2022.

Unified API Protection: What It Is & How It Helps Secure API Landscape

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the connecting tissue that enables the communication between applications, internal and external, and facilitate data exchange on a massive scale. In a world where information is the crown jewel of an organization, APIs are driving the delivery of digital services to customers and partners. While their usage is already exploding, the growing popularity of cloud-native technologies and microservices has only accelerated API adoption.

Understanding Direct Cloud Connectivity: Jargon and Benefits

Direct cloud connectivity refers to a natural, dedicated connection between a user's on-premises infrastructure and a cloud service provider's network. It bypasses the public internet and provides a secure and private connection with lower latency and higher bandwidth than traditional internet-based connections. Direct cloud connectivity enables organizations to move large amounts of data, applications, and workloads to the cloud with improved performance, security, and reliability.

Five worthy reads: Why should we worry about cyberwarfare in 2023?

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In this edition, we’ll explain why cyberwarfare could be a potential cyberthreat in 2023. Cyberwarfare was one of the top trending terms in 2022, and the incidents that happened last year have opened up more discussions regarding this topic. Most people think cyberwarfare is synonymous with the term cyberwar.

Ultimate Security Checklist to Launch a Mobile App in UAE - iOS & Android

Launching a mobile application in the UAE? Prepare to navigate through an intricate web of laws and regulations. The Emirates' governmental framework is renowned for its unwavering adherence to data privacy, making it essential that businesses ensure compliance when dealing with customer information online.

5 Top Microsoft Teams Security Concerns

Are you worried about rolling out Microsoft Teams? Are you concerned that users may accidentally share the wrong information with Team members? Your concern is justified with 56% of insider incidents caused by employee or contractor negligence at a cost of $484,931 per incident (2022 Ponemon Cost of Insider Threats Global Report).

Step up Your Payment Security with Penny Drop Verification

The efficacy of customer identity verification has increased thanks to digital technology. Validating a bank account is an essential stage in the identity verification process since it verifies the client who is tied to that account. The traditional procedures for validating a bank account involved a lot of paperwork and several bank visits, and they were time-consuming. Financial institutions may now enrol consumers in only a few minutes thanks to the introduction of penny drop verification.

PowerShell Tips and Tricks for Scripting in Active Directory Test Environments

PowerShell is one of the most efficient management methods in the Windows Server world. This article offers tips and tricks to learn about one of the most common scripting scenarios: using PowerShell in test, demo and quality assurance (QA) environments, which frequently need to be rebuilt or adjusted to fit a new need or process. We’ve chosen the most useful PowerShell tips based on real-world experience with colleagues and customers.