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How To Improve Email Security with Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Email remains a critical communication channel for businesses of all sizes, but it also presents significant data security risks. Data loss prevention (DLP) for email is an essential component of any robust cybersecurity strategy that can help your organization safeguard sensitive information from accidental leaks, malicious insiders, and external threats.

How Are SMEs Approaching IT Security?

Security remains a thorny issue for small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), consistently topping the list of challenges for IT professionals in JumpCloud’s biannual SME IT Trends survey. In our latest edition, IT pros shared their real-world experiences and strategies around security, among other pressing topics. This blog will dive into those insights to reveal how SMEs are tackling the security landscape today.

Acronym Overload: From SOC to MDR and XDR

As offensive security specialists for over 10 years, we have tested countless organisations who believe their SIEM, EDR or MDR provider offers them comprehensive defense, only to find them lacking in fundamental areas. From our experience, some “traditional” in-house, yet adequately resourced, Security Operations Centres (SOCs) can still provide a robust defense, while others struggle to stay on top of emerging threats.

Major Difference Between MSI vs EXE Installers

An MSI (Microsoft Installer) installer is a file format and technology that Microsoft developed for installing, maintaining, and removing software on the Windows operating system. MSI installers are the usual tools for software deployment in companies and for software distribution to users. MSI installers’ main characteristics are the structure’s packaging, the possibility of installation customization, rollback, silent installation, patch management, and digital signing.

Weekly Cyber Security News 22/08/2024

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! A badly coded WordPress plugin again. Luckily it has been caught: Sneaky! DNS is such a great lure for using as a control channel. I’m really surprised its not used more: Oh dear. At least they found it in the end…

The Power of Multifactor Authentication and a Strong Security Culture

The business mantra "employees are our number one asset" is true for many reasons. Including helping protect an organization from cyber threats. An organization can have the finest security technology stack available, employ offensive security measures such as penetration tests, and have a cybersecurity vendor on speed dial in case an incident occurs. However, if its workers are not cybersecurity conscious, all that effort and financial outlay will be wasted.

Evolution of Scalper Bots Part 2: The Birth of Scalper Bots

Welcome back to our Evolution of Scalper Bots series. In part one, the Origins of Scalping, we started our journey through scalping’s long history. We saw that it is far from a new concept: people have been reselling high-demand items for centuries, from as far back as 325 BCE! We’ll continue our journey at the turn of the 21st Century. With the advent of online ticketing, a new frontier had just been opened for scalpers, and things would never be the same again.

Keeping Financial Services Organizations Secure in an AI World

When we talk about financial services and technology, security and regulatory compliance are always top of mind. And now, Generative AI has entered the chat - one of the most talked-about technologies of recent years. And Financial Services institutions have only begun to scratch the surface of what generative AI can do. The problem is, so have cyber threat actors. In this session from Splunk, and IDC, you’ll hear key insights into how financial services companies are improving their security posture in an AI World, and how those practices can benefit your organizations.