Cloud Security (5)
Capital One Breach Shines Light on Cloud Security Risks, Human Error, and Insider Threats
On June 17, 2022, a former Amazon Web Services (AWS) employee was convicted of seven federal crimes related to her hacking of Capital One. This massive cloud data breach and crypto-mining incident stands out not just for the number of records breached but also for the nature of the attack. Misconfiguration in cloud environments is on the rise —
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Cybersecurity for HIPAA Compliance
OpenVPN Cloud is now CloudConnexa® — learn more here.
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What is LDAP?
The Directory Access Protocol (DAP) is a protocol for accessing information in a directory service based on the X.500 recommendations. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), as the name implies, is a lightweight, vendor-neutral version of DAP.
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Why Faster Ransomware Means Defenders Must Shift Left on the Cyber Kill Chain
We all know ransomware is among the top threats facing today’s organizations. Whether you’re a provider of critical national infrastructure or a regular SMB, there’s increasingly nowhere to hide. The advent of ransomware-as-a-service and the affiliate model has led to an explosion in the number of threat groups out there successfully monetizing
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Network Detection and Response Becomes More Essential as Nation State Attacks Escalate
On March 21, President Biden declared that US critical infrastructure is likely to soon come under concerted attack from the Kremlin. In fact, these warnings have been coming for several weeks now — ever since Russia invaded Ukraine. The surprise in cyber and national security circles is that such attacks have yet to materialize.
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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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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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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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