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Cyber Risk & Your Supply Chain: Managing the Growing Threat

NexusTek

Capitalizing on human error and a host of other vulnerabilities, threat actors increasingly exploit weak links in supply chains to gain access to bigger targets up the chain. The malicious code redirects users to a compromised website that hosts the threat actor’s malware. But how to accomplish this?

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Four Attack Vectors for Web Applications Being Targeted by Ransomware

Solutions Review

Sometimes the rush to keep business services functioning meant that security was overlooked, and cybercriminals are ready to exploit these vulnerabilities. It’s important to understand that protecting applications and access is as critical as email security in defending against ransomware and other malware. Application access.

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The Critical Role of Safe and Secure Backup System Storage

Solutions Review

As attackers have grown more skilled and sophisticated, they are now leveraging hard-to-detect tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that capitalize on backup system vulnerabilities to either steal data or disrupt recovery operations. Take the CVE-2022-36537 vulnerability that was publicized in early 2023 for example.

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7 Challenges with Applying AI to Data Security—and the Real Way to Solve Them

Pure Storage

In the hands of bad actors, AI capabilities can help them identify vulnerabilities and exploit paths faster to launch attacks or breach your defenses. And, as long as humans still play a role in its implementation, the human element introduces vulnerabilities AI can’t solve for. (In Can it lend a hand?

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5 Ways to Address Data Security Gaps Before an Attack

Pure Storage

In this article I’ll start with the before of an attack and discuss what you should do and have in place to ensure you’re closing the gaps that create vulnerabilities and in-roads for attackers. Unsupported operating systems and unpatched software open the door for malware infections and other attacker exploits.

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Don’t Pay the Ransom: Keep Your Data Protected with Auto-on SafeMode

Pure Storage

Pure Storage ® continues to lead in immutable storage solutions by ensuring all data is protected from attack, on-creation and without the risk from error-prone management cycles or vulnerabilities from stale software updates. Now with Auto-on SafeMode, that protection is on by default, which means your data will be automatically protected.

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How to Implement Threat Modeling in Your DevSecOps Process

Pure Storage

Threat modeling is the process of identifying potential threats and vulnerabilities in a system and determining the likelihood and impact of each threat. This can be a serious threat to authentication systems and other security controls. Assets that are vulnerable to spoofing include usernames, passwords, and digital certificates.