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SolarWinds Cyber Attack Update 12/17/2020

Scott R. Davis

Reuters talked to the security researcher Vinoth Kumar whom reportedly alerted SolarWinds back in 2019 that anyone could access the company’s update server using the password ‘solarwinds123’, adding that this could have been done by any attacker. Yesterday, Solarwinds released the hot fix 2020.2.1

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Clean Sweep: AlertMedia Wins Four 2020 ASTORS Awards for Emergency Communication Solution

Alert Media

The post Clean Sweep: AlertMedia Wins Four 2020 ASTORS Awards for Emergency Communication Solution appeared first on AlertMedia.

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7 Reasons Why Cybersecurity Fails

NexusTek

million in 2020. Exposure of employee and customer information 36 billion records were exposed from data breaches in the first half of 2020. Hijacking of important business data The average ransomware payment rose 33% in 2020 to over $100,000. In 2020, p hishing attacks rose 11%. View Essential Cybersecurity Plan.

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Using Workflow Automation to Boost Employee Productivity and Satisfaction

NexusTek

Receive notifications when data thresholds are reached: Power BI can be used to track and visualize streaming data from multiple sources, which you can use to create real-time dashboards where you can specify data alerts. For example, you can create data alerts for sales targets, factory sensor readings, or mentions on social media.

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The Cost of Increasing Incidents: How COVID-19 Affected MTTR, MTTA, and More by Hannah Culver

PagerDuty

One important lesson we learned was that critical incidents increased by 19% YoY between 2019 and 2020, and it doesn’t look like incident volumes will be slowing down anytime soon. MTTA is the time it takes for a responder to acknowledge the alert. As they create more efficient on-call and alerting rules, their MTTA improves.

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Getting Ahead of Cybercriminals: 5 Essential Cybersecurity Practices

NexusTek

To address your cybersecurity needs, NexusTek offers the above and additional services in our three cybersecurity plans: Essential Plan: This managed protection plan offers 24/7/365 monitoring and alerts with managed cybersecurity and an annual security health review for a crucial foundation of defense. Cost of a data breach report, 2020.

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Breakthrough Innovation to Help Overcome Today’s Public Safety Challenges

everbridge

According to the EM-DAT Emergency Event Database, there were 432 natural hazard-related incidents in 2021, compared to an average of 357 annual catastrophes for the period 2001-2020. While there are many ways to alert people about imminent dangers, many public safety systems: cannot reach everyone, everywhere, and every time.

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