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Don’t Get Hacked: 5 Ways to Protect Your Company’s Assets

Malware has become a constant reality for most businesses. Ransomware alone cost around $5 billion in 2017–and those numbers are predicted to continue to rise in the coming years, potentially reaching as much as $11.5 billion by 2019. Prot...

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CIOs vs. Technical Debt: Balancing Innovation and Maintenance

Technical debt is a euphemism referring to the risk in production and potential rework assumed in software development. Due to rush and other factors, a lack of quality in deployed software developments is allowed. It is normal that resources or quality are l...

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What Is Cyber Insurance? A Comprehensive Guide

Social media, advanced technology, and the growing popularity of business transactions over the web continue to determine how organizations operate and communicate with their prospective customers. However, they’re also gateways to cyberattacks and data loss....

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The Canary in the Coal Mine: Detecting Cyberattacks Early

Canary in a Coal Mine: Detecting Cyberattacks Early Many catastrophic events are obvious, with their effects immediately visible — but not all. Fire, flood, tornadoes and earthquakes are all examples of events that can cause a substantial impact to business o...

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How to Proactively Address Payment Card Security Threats

Payment card attacks are nothing new. Cybercriminals have been targeting payment cards for more than a decade. However, there is a disturbing trend of cybercriminals discovering and leveraging novel ways to steal payment cards credentials during online transa...

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Securing Cloud Access in Applications

As applications become increasingly cloud-based – or even cloud-native – more and more such code sends data to and from cloud-based stores, both public and private. This makes the methods and controls that such applications use to access the cloud of particul...

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How to Prevent Threats in Healthcare Application Security

Healthcare Sector Application Security: Preventing Threats from Becoming Attacks Software security isn’t a state of being, or even a single action; it is a process, and one that requires more than just hardening your software. The year 2020 saw a dramati...

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Mitigating Security Threats in Online and Mobile Gaming

In this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re all spending more time on our PCs and smartphones. It might seem odd, but The Business Research Company’s Global Online Gambling Market report asserts that online gambling has skyrocketed in 2020. This is...

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Virtual CISO: Leveraging External Security Expertise

Today’s organizations, both big and small, are finding that security activities consume more resources than ever before. Cyber criminals are getting better all the time, and staying just one step ahead of them is getting harder. But it’s not just more sophist...

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Secure Remote Access: Keeping Employees and the Organization Safe

In this age of lockdowns, social distancing and working from home, organizations must think carefully about how to extend their networks and services across the internet and into employees’ and contractors’ homes. This makes remote access security management ...

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8 Common Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Enterprise Software

Cybersecurity is getting much attention, from the break room to the board room. Few weeks pass without another salacious story in the media about a new large-scale data breach, ransomware outbreak or other attack designed to disrupt everyday life. Cyber...

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