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2025 Cybersecurity Predictions: What To Expect And How To Prepare

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Educate your team on recognizing AI-enhanced phishing e-mails that are eerily personalized and authentic. How To Prepare: Double down on incident-response planning and invest in backup solutions that allow you to recover quickly without paying a ransom. Quantum Computing: The End Of Encryption As We Know It?

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What Is Cyber Extortion? Tips for Securing Your Data

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Lack of multi-factor authentication (MFA): Systems without MFA are more vulnerable to unauthorized logins. Creating one involves developing and testing a clear incident response plan for responding to cyber extortion attempts, including communication protocols and steps for recovery.

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Change Healthcare’s 2024 Data Breach: Key Risk Management Lessons

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Lack of Continuous Monitoring and Incident Response : The failure to detect the breach early on allowed the issue to spread unchecked. A proactive incident response plan, combined with continuous monitoring of internal systems, would have enabled quicker detection and containment.

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Cyber Insurance For Small Business: Why You Need It And How to Get Covered In 2025

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Insurers want to make sure you’re taking cybersecurity seriously before they issue a policy, so they’ll likely ask about these key areas: Security Baseline Requirements Insurers will check that you have basic security measures like firewalls, antivirus software and multifactor authentication (MFA) in place.

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Reducing Cybersecurity Risks with NIST CSF 2.0

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This function covers response planning processes that can be executed during and after an incident. Recover: It is critical to maintain and communicate plans for resilience and restoring capabilities and services impaired due to a cybersecurity incident.

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How to Put CISA’s “Shields Up” Recommendations Into Action 

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This means being proactive with plenty of hurdles like multifactor authentication and admin credential vaulting. Reporting is a key part of any incident response plan, but paying it forward with early reports may help other organizations, too. Test your emergency response plans.

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Ransomware Attackers Find Fresh Targets in Cultural Institutions

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Create and test your incident response plan. Along with creating an incident response plan , consider the infrastructure necessary to support it. Today’s best plans are highly focused on prevention with the solutions in place to catch issues before they occur.

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