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Defending Critical Infrastructure from Ransomware Attacks

AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND CONDUCTED LIVE – 24 JUNE 2021 CYDEF – Chief EXECUTIVE OFFICER Steve Rainville Steve has over 20 years of experience in information technology, 15 of which are specifically in IT security services. Steve brings extensive expertise in cyber security services, including Security Operations Centre (SOC) planning and optimization, SIEM solution deployments and security […]

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2021 Data Breach Investigations Report

By execassist

Greetings! Welcome to the 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)! We always appreciate you, our readers, but this year we would like to say thank you for just showing up. Thanks for simply making it through the often frightening and always unpredictable dystopian wasteland that was 2020, and still having enough interest and energy to

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ThreatLabZ Ransomware Review: The Advent of Double Extortion

By execassist

For businesses around the world, 2020 was a year of change and disruption for reasons that go beyond the pandemic: ransomware was on the rise in a big way and underwent more change and innovation in 2020 than it had in a decade. Double extortion, third-party attacks, and DDoS techniques emerged, pushing ransomware even further

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The State of Ransomware 2021

By execassist

Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography: Explore Challenges Associated with Adoption and Use of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms Sophos’ annual ransomware survey delivers fresh new insights into the experiences of mid-sized organizations across the globe. It explores the prevalence of attacks, as well as the impact of those attacks on victims, including year-on-year trends. This year, for

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Securing the Enterprise in the COVID world – The State of Email Security

By execassist

Email: An Invaluable Tool and a Growing Threat As COVID-19 swept the globe, businesses found themselves more reliant than ever on email. But this greater dependence also posed new and insidious threats. There’s no question that the pandemic-driven shift from office to home-based work was a major contributor. With the flip of a figurative switch,

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M-Trends 2021

By execassist

Expanding Knowledge by Sharing Intrusion Realities Security practitioners faced a series of challenges in this past year which forced organizations into uncharted waters. As ransomware operators were attacking state and municipal networks alongside hospitals and schools, a global pandemic response to COVID-19 necessitated a move to remote work for a significant portion of the economy.

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2021 Ransomware Threat Report

By execassist

Foreword Before joining Palo Alto Networks, I served 35 years in the US military, with the last 10 of those years devoted to cyber-related assignments. During my tenure, I was able to see firsthand how ransomware was a major threat to national security—and we’re still seeing it today. Ransomware is one of the top threats

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2021 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report

By execassist

Cybercriminals have always been opportunists, and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic offered more proof of this than perhaps any other event before it. Threat actors are becoming more powerful, more aggressive and more numerous, increasingly abandoning the tendency to look for the biggest quarry in favor of attacking the least defended. And 2020 was rife with

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X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2021

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The year 2020 was without a doubt one of the most consequential and transformational in recent memory: A global pandemic, economic turmoil impacting millions of people’s lives, and social and political unrest. The reverberations from these events affected businesses in profound ways, with many making a major shift to distributed workforces. In the cyber realm,

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2021 VPN Risk Report

By execassist

OVERVIEW For nearly 30 years, VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) have been central to providing remote users with access to the corporate network. Now the digitally transformed world, where zero trust is a must and applications have moved outside the traditional perimeter, has changed that reality. “Corporate VPN is an aging technology as organizations shift to

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