Businesses today rely heavily on the cloud infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive innovation, enhance scalability, and streamline operations. However, with this reliance comes the imperative need to safeguard against potential disruptions that compromise business continuity and an organization’s reputation. This is where Disaster Recovery (DR) steps in as a critical component of any organization’s AWS strategy.

Being a security analyst tracking down threats can feel like being the Wile E. Coyote to an attacker’s Road Runner. You’re fast, but they’re faster. You set up alerts, but they still manage to get past your defenses. You’re monitoring systems, but they’re still able to hide their criminal activities.

Security operations centers (SOCs) play a vital role in detection, containment and mitigation of today’s advanced cyber attacks. SoC teams are also responsible for proactively hunting for threats, and improving the organization’s overall security posture. Modern SOC analysts struggle with alert fatigue.

Orphaned users SQL Server arise when a database user is associated with a login in the master database that no longer exists and should be removed. This situation can happen when the login is removed or when the database is transferred to a different server lacking the corresponding login. The SQL Server logins existing on a server instance can be seen through the sys.server_principals catalog view and the sys.sql_logins compatibility view.

Why is Privilege Access Management the linchpin of your cybersecurity strategy? Our guide delivers compelling insights into PAM—what it is, why it matters, and how the right privilege access management tactics fortify your defences against data breaches and compliance violations while securing sensitive data and critical systems.

As the volume of code continues to grow exponentially, software developers, DevOps engineers, operations teams, security specialists, and everyone else who touches code are increasingly spending their time in the weeds of securing, delivering, and scaling software. This bottles up creativity and ultimately slows software development for every organization.

Search engines are the Internet’s gateway, reliably guiding us to the information we seek. However, cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting this trust by using sophisticated techniques to manipulate search engine results to drive traffic to malicious websites by getting them ranked higher than real sites. This practice, known as SEO poisoning, poses a significant threat to individuals and businesses. In a notable example, a 2022 campaign saw 15,000 sites hacked in a Google SEO poisoning attack.

To answer this question, let’s first look at some history. Processes are software instances running in their own memory spaces. They enable a user to execute multiple software instances in parallel on the same computer. The concepts are derived from operating systems of the 1960s, with UNIX first being released in 1971. In today’s operating systems, every process is associated with an identity to which authorizations are bound. This enables the definition of access controls around processes.

Sensitive data, like customer information and internal processes, often lurks hidden in employee devices or in unmanaged spreadsheets. This “shadow data” poses a security risk because it’s difficult for IT teams to monitor and protect. Without visibility into this hidden data, organizations can’t effectively enforce security policies, putting them at risk of data breaches. Mishandling sensitive data can have severe consequences.

Managing data effectively has never been more of an imperative for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). The one-two punch of increasing cybersecurity threats and regulatory pressures make this particularly pertinent, and with the proliferation of hybrid and remote work models, the importance of reliable data backup solutions is expanding exponentially. With all that taken into account, here are some effective strategies that will deliver continuity and resilience, while in turn maintaining client trust.