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Are You Leaving Third Party Risk Management to Guesswork?
Third-party risk management is never something that should be neglected or left to guesswork. Unfortunately, third-party data breaches have proven to be catastrophic for organizations worldwide. Recent attacks such as the SolarWinds breach and the Kaseya incident demonstrate the need for increased third-party risk management.
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PCI DSS Compliance for Retail and OpenVPN Cloud
As we emerge from the global pandemic, retail is growing at levels not seen in over 15 years. Retail sales grew an estimated 6.7% in 2020, well above the five-year average of 4.4%.
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Why Zero Trust Access Should Be On Every CISO's Roadmap
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) – defined by Gartner – is a security framework prescribing the convergence of security and network connectivity technologies into a single cloud-delivered platform to enable secure and fast cloud transformation. With SASE, enterprises can secure their resources and simplify the accessibility that users require
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Emerging Technologies To Watch for Business Transformation
The link between technology adoption and business success has a long history of powerful impact. More recently — since the onset of the pandemic — businesses have more readily adopted web conferencing solutions such as Zoom, and had to rethink how it was used to ensure productivity, communication and collaboration. As consumers and end-users, all
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How CloudConnexa Enables Zero Trust for Small Businesses
Forrester analyst Stephen Marsh originated the concept of the perimeterless security approach known as zero trust architecture (ZTA) in 1994. Since then, and with help from his fellow Forrester Analyst John Kindervag, use of the zero trust approach has steadily grown with the biggest enterprises in the world.
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OpenVPN's Robert Weiss Speaks at ShmooCon
Every year in Washington DC, the best and brightest in the world of infosec come together for “three days of an interesting atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software and hardware solutions, and open discussions of critical infosec issues.” This east coast hacker convention, known as ShmooCon, is a long time favorite
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Cybersecurity For Tech Companies
5.3 trillion U.S. dollars. That’s the 2022 estimated spending for the global information technology (IT) industry. Given that the Verizon 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) found 86% of data breaches are motivated by financial gain, it’s easy to see why cybercriminals target the tech industry. According to the NTT 2020 Global Threat
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Top Retail Cybersecurity Challenges
E-commerce lets retailers use customer data and segmentation to deliver unique customer experiences. That’s why the industry eagerly pursued digital transformation. Unfortunately, that customer data also creates new vulnerabilities that weren’t part of traditional brick-and-mortar retail.
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How to Prevent Scareware Attacks with CloudConnexa
Does anybody like pop-ups? Unlikely. That's why pop-up blockers are so popular. And as if pop-up ads and pop-up windows weren’t annoying enough, now scammers are using scareware pop-ups to trick users more determinedly than ever.
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Cloud-Based Cybersecurity for Financial Services
In his 2019 annual letter to shareholders, J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon wrote, “The threat of cybersecurity may very well be the biggest threat to the U.S. financial system.” At the time, J.P. Morgan Chase was spending almost $600 million to defend against cyberattacks after a 2014 breach that affected 76 million households and 7 million
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