Security Industry Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

These tips were developed by the SIA CAB during Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021 as part of SIA’s efforts to promote responsible connectivity and encourage SIA members to strengthen their cybersecurity postures. Use multifactor authentication as much as possible (e.g., What Is Security Risk Management?

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NexusTek

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In late 2021, the company’s employees found that they could not access digital files as usual—the result of a malware infection. When in doubt about an email’s authenticity, reach out directly (don’t reply to the email) to the ostensible sender to verify. SIEM, IAM) are important in slowing threat actors down.

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NexusTek

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Experts recommend the following: Multifactor authentication (MFA): This requires at least two forms of identity verification for login, which effectively stymies unauthorized logins using compromised credentials. 2021, May 4). 2021, May 7). Conduct risk assessment to verify third party’s security practices. link] Security.

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Online Computers

MARCH 23, 2022

Related article: The most important cybersecurity lessons of 2021. Implement multifactor authentication for transactions. Multifactor authentication (MFA) is a form of secondary authentication that your business can use to verify that the customer is who they say they are. Elevate your compliance profile.

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Zerto

DECEMBER 21, 2021

On December 7, 2021, a major outage in the form of a DNS disruption in the North Virginia AWS region disrupted many online services. On December 15, 2021, AWS suffered another network-related outage affecting major third-party web services, although for a shorter duration. .

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With always-on encryption at rest, protocol-level authentication, and SafeMode™ snapshots to mitigate ransomware, Pure as-a-Service gives you peace of mind that your data is always protected. Future-Proof Your Infrastructure. Learn more about them. Like this article and want to read more?

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Pure Storage

MAY 16, 2022

She’s a true leader who inspires her team daily, and she has made a big impact here since coming to “ The Orange ” in 2021. She embraces being her authentic self with each partner and strives to operate transparently in all deals. Her greatest strength is her ability to identify and address challenges with creativity and boldness.

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Solutions Review

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report shows that for hacking, web applications are the biggest attack vector in use, accounting for more than 80% of all data breaches. Do you have multifactor authentication enabled for network access? Ultimately, that leads to access being open in ways you did not want.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 30, 2024

For example, the 2021 attack on Colonial Pipeline led to a $4.4 Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA): Add an extra layer of security by requiring a second form of verification, such as a code sent to your phone or biometric authentication. Avoid reusing passwords across multiple accounts.

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NexusTek

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In late 2021, the company’s employees found that they could not access digital files as usual—the result of a malware infection. When in doubt about an email’s authenticity, reach out directly (don’t reply to the email) to the ostensible sender to verify. SIEM, IAM) are important in slowing threat actors down.

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NexusTek

APRIL 19, 2023

Ransomware attacks plagued the industry in 2021, with 74% of financial services institutions reporting attacks 3. From 2021 to 2022, DDoS attacks on financial services companies rose 22% year-over-year, making the industry the most frequently targeted for this type of attack 5,6. 2021, June 22). link] Contreras, W.

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Advancing Analytics

MAY 12, 2021

At Advancing Analytics, we strive to foster a culture in which everyone feels comfortable to come to work as their authentic selves. This equates to 300,000 people – equivalent of the population of cities the size of Newcastle or Belfast What have we done at Advancing Analytics?

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LAN Infotech

JANUARY 18, 2022

Statistics show that businesses lost over $6 trillion in 2021. Do you have multi-factor authentication for all your accounts? The business world continues to experience increased cyber crimes as hackers devise more creative ways to hack systems and manipulate sensitive data belonging to organizations and their customers.

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LAN Infotech

DECEMBER 12, 2021

And in 2021, things don’t seem to get any better as the data breach incidents through September 2021 have exceeded the number of publicly reported cases by 17%. Therefore, you should ensure that your appliances are secure using a 2-factor authenticator to prevent intruders from logging into your home system.

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The Morning Breach

JULY 2, 2021

Updated 7/2/2021 - 17:51 ET. . Shortly after 2PM on Friday July 2, 2021 administrators of the Kaseya VSA (Remote Monitoring and Management) Software as a Service began to experience issues where users were locked out and customer agents were receiving scripts to deploy ransomware. What about Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in 2021 forced the shutdown of a major U.S. Lack of multi-factor authentication (MFA): Systems without MFA are more vulnerable to unauthorized logins. Cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in outdated systems or through advanced persistent threats (APTs).

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Security Industry Association

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This year, specific themes for the month include enabling strong authentication and password practices, updating software and recognizing and reporting phishing.

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NexusTek

JULY 7, 2021

July 7, 2021. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) adds an extra layer of identification to stop cyber threats from slipping through unsecured devices. READ TIME: 4 MIN. Cyber Security: 8 Steps to Cyber Resilience. You’ve heard of cyber security, but have you heard of cyber resiliency?

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Castellan

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

While numbers from 2021 are still being tallied here in early 2022, it’s hard to get a good handle of the actual number of ransomware attacks last year, but there’s one thing most reports agree upon—ransomware attacks have increased at an alarming rate, not just in volume, but also in complexity.

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Pure Storage

MARCH 6, 2024

By 2021, the cyber insurance industry wrote $10 billion in premiums —and also doubled premium rates to offset losses from claims. Applications are commonly rejected if fundamental controls, such as multi-factor authentication, separate backups, and endpoint detection and response, are not in place.

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LAN Infotech

MARCH 17, 2022

Once the malware is installed and your files are encrypted, the cybercriminals often threaten to sell or leak exfiltrated data or authentication information if the ransom is not paid. Data shows that in 2021 cyberattacks increased by nearly 50 percent over the previous year. Ransomware: A Growing Global Issue.

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Security Industry Association

JULY 26, 2022

Orr has served as a mentor in the SIA RISE community ’s Talent Inclusion Mentorship Education (TIME) program since April 2021. Identity management encompasses many aspects of risk management, public policy, fraud prevention, privacy, data analysis, risk and governance, information technology and security.

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Advancing Analytics

MAY 4, 2022

Enable blob public access This setting allows clients to connect to your storage account containers without authentication. Rotating these keys regularly helps but there's still a higher risk than using Azure AD authentication options. The use of the word "public" is a little misleading in that respect.

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Zerto

JULY 14, 2022

According to the Center for Internet Security over the past six months (DEC 2021–MAY 2022), these ten malware variants consistently made up over 60% of all reported malware activity: Shlayer. Agent Tesla. Arechclient2.

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Advancing Analytics

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In fact, in 2021 it was reported that 45% of Databricks users use Python as their language of choice. This is a stark contrast to 2013, in which 92 % of users were Scala coders: Spark usage among Databricks Customers in 2013 vs 2021. Well, a large percentage of Databricks/Spark users are Python coders.

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Zerto

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This includes ensuring that all software and systems are up to date, implementing strong password policies, and enforcing multi-factor authentication. Similarly, the 2021 Colonial Pipeline cyberattack in the U.S. Policies should be designed to address the specific threats faced by your organization.

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LogisManager

MAY 20, 2021

energy company, was hit with a ransomware cyberattack on May 7th, 2021, which forced it to halt all operations on its major pipeline that delivers roughly 45% of all fuel consumed on the east coast. Having multi-factor authentication also limits unauthorized users to access data. Colonial Pipeline Hack: Failure in Risk Management.

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OffsiteDataSync

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021 this October to raise awareness about the importance of safe and current cybersecurity training and how lack of can affect you and your organization. Own your part in keeping your data safe by starting with the basics: create strong passwords, use multi-factor authentication, and back up your data!

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

portworx-volume creationTimestamp: "2021-05-21T12:18:18Z" finalizers: - kubernetes.io/pvc-protection root@master-1 Oracle-on-Kubernetes]# kubectl logs pods/oracle19c-nfs-68bd675554-9bmlj --follow [2021:05:21 12:18:21]: Acquiring lock on /opt/oracle/oradata/.ORCL.create_lck bind-completed: "yes" pv.kubernetes.io/bound-by-controller:

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Pure Storage

JULY 12, 2021

Data from ESG research shared during Pure//Accelerate® Digital 2021. Multifactor-authenticated, immutable snapshots. Having multifactor-authenticated snapshots that can’t be edited or deleted, even by a rogue admin, take this bit of leverage off the table. But even internally, an outage can be disastrous.

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Solutions Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This research is based on an August 2021 survey of more than 1,000 adult American consumers between the ages of 18 through 75 and older, all of whom have heard of ransomware. Enabling multi-factor authentication (47 percent). The study was commissioned by Cohesity and conducted by Propeller Insights.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 31, 2022

View product demos of our PagerDuty App for ServiceNow and a recap of our Event Intelligence capabilities from 2021 from our Webinars & Events. Nov 16, 2021 with Mandi Walls & Rob Jahn (Dynatrace) – Partner Integration – Dynatrace with PagerDuty and Rundeck. Rundeck 3.4.7, Bump Spring Security version from 5.1.11

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NexusTek

MARCH 10, 2021

READ TIME: 4 MIN March 10, 2021 NexusTek Boot Camp: Cybersecurity Basic Training & Quiz Welcome to NexusTek Boot Camp! According to Cybersecurity Ventures, global cybercrime costs are expected to rise to $6 trillion in 2021 , and businesses are predicted to experience a ransomware attack every 11 seconds. What is cybersecurity?

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Pure Storage

JULY 17, 2023

A Spotlight on Critical Infrastructure The pipeline disruption of 2021 taught us a valuable lesson: Taking out one critical infrastructure provider can have a devastating ripple effect. Beyond multifactor authentication and password strategies, everyone should keep security top of mind. Training everyone to be a security expert.

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NexusTek

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Experts recommend the following: Multifactor authentication (MFA): This requires at least two forms of identity verification for login, which effectively stymies unauthorized logins using compromised credentials. 2021, May 4). 2021, May 7). Conduct risk assessment to verify third partys security practices. Infosecurity Magazine.

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Security Industry Association

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA), the most significant investment in U.S. A key program objective is providing cyber-physical security solutions such as bolstering security access to government networks with multifactor authentication solutions that are provided by the security industry.

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NexusTek

APRIL 19, 2023

Ransomware attacks plagued the industry in 2021, with 74% of financial services institutions reporting attacks 3. From 2021 to 2022, DDoS attacks on financial services companies rose 22% year-over-year, making the industry the most frequently targeted for this type of attack 5,6. 2021, June 22). link] Contreras, W.

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