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Benefits and Risks of Social Media

Social media can be a great way to stay connected with friends and family, but it also poses risks. In this blog post, we will explore the dangers of social media for kids, teens, individuals and businesses as well as the benefits. We will talk about the social media risks and how to protect yourself from them. There are many ways that you can reduce your risk when using social media sites like Twitter or Facebook.

7 Proven Cybersecurity Risk Mitigation Strategies

Cybersecurity is one of the essential tasks for any business. It’s not just a matter of protecting your company’s data and information from external threats, but also ensuring that it remains robust to internal ones. All three, i.e. people, processes and technology, are your greatest asset. If they are not embedded and managed throughout the organisation, you can expect that they will inadvertently put your sensitive data at risk.

What is DNS hijacking? Redirection Attacks Explained (and Prevention)

Almost everybody in this world uses the Internet. Some use it for work, some for education, some to stay connected with the world and their loved ones, some for shopping, and some use it to browse the world wide web in their leisure time. DNS Hijacking or DNS redirection attacks are a widespread security threat many DNS servers face in today’s modern digital world.

Vendor Risk Management: Best Practices for 2021

Vendor risk management (VRM) is rapidly emerging with ever-evolving cyber security strategies. As we hit the pandemic and try to manage critical operations in a remote work setup, each day, business entities challenge with the new security, privacy, and business continuity risks associated with their vendors.

What is SAML Authentication? Is it different from OAuth

SAML authentication is a must for organisations that want to do federated identity and single sign-on. These applications require both sides of the service or application to use a common set of credentials for identification and authorization. This is an effort to reduce security risks, increase the availability of services through more robust authentication, improve reliability by leveraging existing investments in infrastructure, and improve the end-user experience.

What is virtual CISO? Benefits of a vCISO for your organisation

Cybersecurity is an ever-changing landscape, and it’s essential to have the right people on your team, like a virtual chief information security officer. This person can help you protect yourself from cyberattacks by building out cyber security programming, including infrastructure protection, data management, and customer privacy concerns.

How to Change File and Folder Permissions (NTFS) in Windows

There are many cases where you will need to restrict your file or folder security to yourself or a certain group of users. Like, you can assign a specific folder in your computer where your home users can access music, images, or videos, or at the workplace to access work files, documents, or more, but you want to restrict the access permissions of users only to that group of files or folders, not your whole computer system.

SQL Server Security: Best Practices 2021

In today’s world where digital data is increasing exponentially by the day, the administration and querying of that data are also becoming more and more complex. This huge amount of data is stored in the form of collections within a database. However, in order to create, read, update or delete that data, the database administrators needed the ability to query the database.