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Cybersecurity in healthcare: How MSPs help safeguard patient data

Online Computers

Ransomware attacks have gained notoriety for their disruptive potential, as seen in the 2016 attack on Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. Phishing attacks – Deceptive emails or messages trick employees into revealing sensitive information or clicking on malicious links that can download malware.

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Are BYOD Practices Putting Your Business at Risk?

NexusTek

every endpoint) creates a new point of vulnerability for hackers to exploit. anti-malware software). It only takes one point of vulnerability for a data breach to occur, making this a considerable threat. In spite of the benefits, BYOD practices introduce a higher degree of cyber risk for businesses.

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Cybersecurity in healthcare: How MSPs help safeguard patient data

Online Computers

Ransomware attacks have gained notoriety for their disruptive potential, as seen in the 2016 attack on Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. Phishing attacks – Deceptive emails or messages trick employees into revealing sensitive information or clicking on malicious links that can download malware.

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Process Controls, SCADA and Cyber Security

Plan B Consulting

Table 1: A list of important attacks between 1982-2016 (Yadav & Paul, 2021) You can see from Table 1 that there is a wide variety of different industries, processes attacked, countries affected, methodologies used for the attack. Managers or controllers may want remote access to the control room, but this can lead to vulnerabilities.

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Process Controls, SCADA and Cyber Security

Plan B Consulting

Table 1: A list of important attacks between 1982-2016 (Yadav & Paul, 2021). However, they can also be remote or unmanned, giving the attacker plenty of time to access the system and plant malware. Remote Access – As systems are often widely dispersed, remote access is more vulnerable to unauthorised access.

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Protecting Your Corporate Website as an Enterprise Risk Management Strategy

Reciprocity

Whether an organization is large or small, the client-facing website offers hackers easily exploitable vulnerabilities for ransomware or malware infections. A few months ago, a knitting blogger warned her audience about malware infestations from free pattern downloads. What Are Corporate Website Vulnerabilities?

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Microsoft Exchange Emergency Mitigation (EM) Service

LAN Infotech

Automated Protection for Vulnerable Exchange Servers. The EOMT is a one-click tool that applies interim mitigations to an Exchange server to proactively minimize vulnerable attack surfaces until the admin can install an available SU. Exchange service mitigation: disables a vulnerable service on an Exchange server.