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Network engineers remain under considerable pressure to secure their networks. Even more so now that the FTC (in the US) has expanded rules on security breach reporting. Now when breaches occur, it’s more than just an obscure security or network team that deals with the fallout, it’s the boardroom that gets involved. Suits in the …
The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report is the gold standard of breach reporting being based on more than 16,000 security incidents and 5,200 breaches. There are two things that jumped out at me: the security costs of human error and the size of companies being targeted (getting smaller). The Security Costs of Human Error the …
BackBox prepares organizations for CIS Benchmark compliance with prebuilt network automations.
When it comes to network security, we often think about vulnerabilities or exploits. About internal threats, and password compromises. We don’t often think about automation. Anything that can have a negative impact on network resiliency and its return to full operation after an ‘event’ relates to security. Automation helps keep your network humming along at …
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We’ve become numb to the costs of cybersecurity breaches. Almost every week there is a new breach reported in the news, it’s beginning to feel impossible to stop them. Something important is changing that you must plan for… Insurance companies that help pick up the pieces are forming an opinion about how businesses should be …
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A fun little walk down memory late as it relates to the complexity of running a mission critical IT environment to end the year on a light note. Truth #1 My first “tech job” was a disk drive company for unix workstations (at Box Hill Systems), the kind that was common on Wall Street trading …
CIS compliance is complicated. It’s a baseline set of benchmarks defined by the Center for Internet Security for protecting systems, like network devices or firewalls. CIS benchmarks align with essential industry regulations, including the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and HIPAA. As a result, organizations prioritizing CIS compliance can simultaneously achieve compliance with other industry regulations. Cisco …
Just because they’re called scripts when used for network and firewall administration doesn’t mean they don’t have the risks associated with software development.