Your passwords should be at least 16 characters long. The longer your password is, the more secure it is. This is because of something known as password entropy which refers to how the combination of the characters that make up a password determines the strength of it. Password entropy considers the length and character variation of a password to calculate how difficult it would be for cybercriminals to crack or guess it.

Organizations continue to endure the challenges that come along with the rapid migration to the cloud, like securing and managing data that is now spread across multiple networks, clouds, and apps. Outdated technologies have led to disjointed, hard-to-manage solutions that struggle to keep up with evolving security threats. But fear not! Lookout is here to help.

Could your employees be unintentionally putting your business at risk? While companies prioritize protection against external cyber threats, the often-overlooked unintentional insider threats can lead to significant financial and reputational risks for your business. These threats can come from simple human errors, such as accidental data sharing, misconfigurations, or falling victim to phishing attacks.

Cyber security reports are an invaluable tool for keeping stakeholders and senior management informed about your cyber security efforts. This post outlines examples of some of the most popular reporting styles, with a particular focus on a field of cybersecurity drawing increasing interest among executive teams - Vendor Risk Management. Each of the cyber security report examples in this list have been pulled from the UpGuard platform.

Setting the maximum log size for event logs is crucial for your security policy. Proper configuration helps detect attacks and investigate their sources. Insufficient storage can result in information loss and undetected breaches. This article covers everything you need to know about configuring maximum security log size. Server hardening can be labor-intensive and costly, often causing production issues.

In this post, we’ll discuss the web scraping best practices, and since I believe many of you are thinking about it, I’ll address the elephant in the room right away. Is it legal? Most likely yes. Scraping sites is generally legal, but within certain reasonable grounds (just keep reading). Also depends on your geographical location, and since I’m not a genie, I don’t know where you’re at, so I can’t say for sure.