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Guest Post: Cybersecurity Incidents Lead to New Standards, Requirements

Security Industry Association

Axis Communications’ Wayne Dorris Discusses How Mirai, SolarWinds Have Pushed the United States and European Union to Act Wayne Dorris is business development manager, cybersecurity, at Axis Communications. Many cybersecurity standards in the U.S. trillion by 2025. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). and parts of Europe.

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What Is Wiperware? 10 FAQs

Pure Storage

10 FAQs by Pure Storage Blog Wiperware, or wiper malware, is a disturbing evolution in cyber warfare that takes no prisoners—not even your data. Attacks attributed to this new, highly destructive form of malware include an Iranian train system attack in 2021 that caused “unprecedented chaos.” What Is Wiperware?

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Strategies for Digital Risk Protection

Reciprocity

So it is for houses and buildings – and the same principle is just as true for cybersecurity. Hence cybersecurity risk management is crucial to prevent and mitigate cyber threats. DRP is the active piece of the cybersecurity puzzle, and is an imperative for every organization. What is Digital Risk Protection? Technology.

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Ransomware’s Latest Targets and How to Protect Yourself

Pure Storage

Ransomware attacks nearly doubled in 2021 and continue to increase substantially. Air gaps can deliver enhanced protection by: Providing better security than traditional backup architecture. Limiting the spread of malware. The idea of air gapping is to make backups unreachable to attackers. But is air gapping really the answer

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Time to Fight Back Against Ransomware: Zerto Will Show You How

Zerto

compromises virtual machines (VMs) using publicly available and custom tools to escalate privileges, exfiltrate data, and encrypt it with malware. Ransomware attacks happen periodically and intermittently, usually dropping off time-triggered malware during their infection process. After compromising a victim network, LockBit 2.0

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Four Key Backup and Recovery Questions IT Must Ask During Deployment

Solutions Review

With the rising number of ransomware attacks (which grew by about 93 percent in 2021 compared to 2020, and data from early 2022 suggests growth is continuing), there’s another important use case for DR and backup: as a hedge against ransomware. There are a number of ways a robust DR/backup system can mitigate the harm of a ransomware attack.

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Process Controls, SCADA and Cyber Security

Plan B Consulting

Table 1: A list of important attacks between 1982-2016 (Yadav & Paul, 2021) You can see from Table 1 that there is a wide variety of different industries, processes attacked, countries affected, methodologies used for the attack. Vulnerability assessment of cybersecurity for SCADA systems. Bibliography TEN, C., & MANIMARAN, G.,