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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

TechCrunch

Journalists and activists are increasingly targeted by the wealthy and resourceful who seek to keep the truth hidden, from nation-state aligned hackers hacking into journalist’s inboxes to governments deploying mobile spyware to snoop on their most vocal critics. Turn on two-factor authentication! What would that be?

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Breaking Down the NASCIO Top 10 for 2023

Palo Alto Networks

Priority #2: Digital Government/Digital Services Having a consistent cybersecurity posture is now more important than ever. Most state and local government agencies have a patchwork of nonintegrated, siloed security solutions of various maturity levels across their business networks, endpoints and clouds.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework Gets Major Update, as Advisories on APT29 and ALPHV Blackcat Get Rolled Out

Tenable

places stronger emphasis on governance, features broader scope The much awaited revamping of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is finally here. And the most prevalent malware in Q4. And much more! Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending March 1. came out in 2014.

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The State of Security in 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Most companies have implemented multifactor authentication, endpoint security, and zero trust. are concerned about spyware, 7.6% Multifactor authentication (MFA) has been widely implemented, reported by 88.1% Zero trust requires every service (and every user) to authenticate when it needs another service. Only 10.0%

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Schools Suffer Heavy Downtime Losses Due To Ransomware, as Banks Grapple with AI Challenges

Tenable

organizations with ransomware for financial gain, while separately stealing data on behalf of Iran’s government from U.S., That’s according to the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which this week said that over the past nine months, multiple exploit campaigns were delivered via a watering hole attack on Mongolian government websites.

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The Future of Security

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Every device user and network flow is authenticated and authorized. In this model, requests for access to protected resources are first made through the control plane, where both the device and user must be continuously authenticated and authorized. External and internal threats exist on the web at all times.

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Improving IT Security in a World Filled With Hackers

Samanage

In fact, by the midpoint of 2018, the IT Governance Blog reported that there had already been more than 600 data breaches that year. Suffice it to say, hacking is on the rise and affecting more and more institutions, from government agencies to private and publicly held companies to universities.

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