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Why Privacy Education is a Must in Security Awareness Training

Introduction Security awareness training is an essential part of running a business, but how often do we think about privacy education as a part of this pro
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How to Safeguard Against the Privacy Implications of Cloud Computing

Introduction The definition of cloud computing is quite controversial but the general consensus, good enough for our purposes, is that it is really just a me
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Top 10 privacy protection tools for the enterprise

As technology evolves and Internet-connected smart devices become more and more common, many new privacy regulations are being enacted to protect us. One suc
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5 Commercial Threat-Hunting Platforms That Can Provide Great Value to Your Hunting Party

Introduction Threat hunting is the process of proactively looking for anomalies within a company’s network or devices and discovering if they represent the t
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How to Create Awareness of Insider Threats

Insider threats have a special place in the cybersecurity hall of shame. No one likes to think that their colleague is out to get them, but unfortunately, th
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5 best practices for ensuring data privacy

2018 must surely be the year of privacy. In a recent poll, 63% of U.S. adults said they would NOT be willing to share personal data in exchange for ads to ke
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What is a phishing filter? Plus, how to set one up!

It is estimated that 14.5 billion phishing emails are sent every single day. Because the volume is so high, phishers need only a few people to click to be su
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The top 10 most famous social engineering attacks

Contrary to popular belief, hacking is not all about finding loopholes in computer software that gives the attacker access to sensitive information. Vulnerab
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10 steps to take after clicking a phishing scam

We all make mistakes. Even clicking on a phishing link can happen to the best of us – sometimes we are in a hurry, or sometimes the phishers are exceptionall
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How to Run a Phishing Test on Your Employees

Is your company safe from phishing attacks? There are two ways to find out: either through a pre-planned simulation or an actual event. In this article, we’l
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Fraud as a Service (FaaS): Everything You Need to Know

Introduction The 2017 LexisNexis® True Cost of Fraud report makes for sobering reading. After surveying nearly 1,200 risk and fraud executives, the report co
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Top 14 Social Engineering Red Flags

Introduction Most people are aware of the technological side of cybersecurity. They’ve heard about viruses and vulnerabilities and hackers breaking into netw
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iOS application security part 47 — Inspecting apps with Frida

In this article, we will talk about Frida. Frida is a dynamic instrumentation toolkit which can prove to be extremely useful in iOS application assessments.
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Threat Hunting for Suspicious Registry and System File Changes

Information security professionals are normally tasked with hunting threats that have been detected on their respective networks. What happens when you think
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Threat Hunting for DDoS Activity and Geographic Irregularities

Introduction So there you are, sitting at your desk at the organization where you work as an information security professional. You are performing your usual
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The Current Job Outlook for Threat Hunters

Introduction Demand for cybersecurity professionals is on the rise, and even specialized niche positions are seeing an increase in popularity. This makes thr
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How to Build a Threat-Hunting Tool in 10 Steps

Introduction If you are planning on building your own threat-hunting tool but don’t know where to start, then this could be just the article for you. We will
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Threat Hunting and SOC

Introduction “Threat hunting” refers to the process of proactively and repeatedly searching through networks to detect and isolate advanced threats that evad
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AWS Cloud Security for Beginners — Part 2

Introduction In the previous part of this series, we set up our free-tier account and then configured AWS CLI. In this article, we will discuss S3 buckets an
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How Much Does a Data Breach Cost? Reading the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study

How much does a data breach cost? It isn't a simple question, but the answer is the only way to transmit the urgency of the situation to C-level executives.[
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AWS Cloud Security for Beginners — Part 1

Introduction to AWS cloud security Cloud computing has gained enormous attention during the past few years, and a lot of companies are shifting their infrast
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Threat Hunting vs. SIEM

Introduction To reduce attack surfaces and improve one’s cybersecurity posture, organizations can adopt two stances: a reactive approach and a proactive appr
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10 Benefits of Threat Hunting

Introduction Organizations are constantly being challenged by an increasing number of cybersecurity threats. As the severity and frequency of attacks rise, t
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Threat Hunting Techniques

Introduction Cyberthreat-hunting is a way of scouring through a network and finding sophisticated threats that could cause harm to systems and data, and whic
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