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Cybersecurity Tips: Risk and Vulnerability Management

Security Industry Association

Managing cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities is a critical activity for any robust security program. Risk management and vulnerability management are performed in tandem to help keep your network safer and more secure. What Is a Vulnerability? Managing Vulnerabilities in Your Environment.

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What Is Cyber Extortion? Tips for Securing Your Data

Pure Storage

Data breaches often exploit vulnerabilities in software, weak passwords, or insider threats to gain access to critical systems and exfiltrate data. Cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in outdated systems or through advanced persistent threats (APTs). The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in 2021 forced the shutdown of a major U.S.

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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

state develops a hazard mitigation plan, which identifies top local risks and provides a framework for long term strategies to reduce risk and protect citizens and property from damage. 8 states/territories mention pandemic planning but do not discuss further how the state or agency will be able to mitigate the hazard from the event.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

Most of them are highly vulnerable to seismic forces. Korkmaz 2021. A view on how to mitigate earthquake damages in Turkey from a civil engineering perspective. Many, perhaps most, people in Turkey live in multi-storey, multiple occupancy reinforced concrete frame buildings. It is these that collapse. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H.

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Microsoft Exchange Emergency Mitigation (EM) Service

LAN Infotech

Microsoft Exchange Emergency Mitigation (EM) Service. Following a series of attacks that leveraged zero-day exploits against on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange servers, Microsoft has released a new tool to provide emergency mitigation. Automated Protection for Vulnerable Exchange Servers.

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The Best Risk Management Software to Consider for 2021 and Beyond

Solutions Review

Description: Archer IT & Security Risk Management enables users to document and report on IT risks and controls, security vulnerabilities, audit findings, regulatory obligations, and issues across their technology infrastructure. Users can also connect their risks to mitigating controls to show how their organization treats its threats.

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Why Paying the Ransom Should Be Your Last Option

Pure Storage

For example, the 2021 attack on Colonial Pipeline led to a $4.4 Alternative Strategies to Consider These alternatives can help you mitigate the damage, regain control, and prevent future attacksall without funding cybercriminals. They dont secure your system or eliminate vulnerabilities that led to the attack.

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