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How to manage cloud exploitation at the edge

CIO

Companies that have embraced the cloud need to understand the Shared Responsibility Model: a security and compliance framework that explains what shared infrastructure and systems the cloud provider is responsible for maintaining and how a customer is responsible for operating systems, data, and applications utilizing the cloud.

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How to use your Android as a 2FA key

The Parallax

or later, you are a few steps away from turning it into a two-factor authentication key , the company announced at its annual I/O developer conference here on May 7. It is much safer than one-time code systems, including SMS or authenticator code systems, as this is based on the FIDO 2.0 How to FBI-proof your Android.

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Securing Critical Infrastructure with Zero Trust

CIO

Global instability complicates this situation further as attacks against critical infrastructure around the world spiked following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with the deployment of Industroyer2 malware that is specifically designed to target and cripple critical industrial infrastructure.

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Incident Response by the Numbers

Palo Alto Networks

Good hygiene can limit the damage potential of stolen credentials, but controls must go beyond strong passwords and multifactor authentication (MFA). Perform continuous authentication and monitoring of communication channels. These connections lead out of the target environment and terminate on a system under the attacker’s control.

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CVE-2024-21762: Critical Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-Bound Write SSL VPN Vulnerability

Tenable

critical infrastructure through exploitation of known vulnerabilities Background On February 8, Fortinet published an advisory (FG-IR-24-015) to address a critical flaw in FortiOS, its network operating system. CVE Description CVSSv3 Severity CVE-2024-21762 Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-bound Write Vulnerability in sslvpnd 9.6

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CVE-2021-22893: Zero-Day Vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

Pulse Connect Secure Authentication Bypass Vulnerability. CVE-2021-22893 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure. Authenticated. Authenticated. Implanting malware and harvesting credentials. Description. Privileges. CVE-2021-22893. Unauthenticated. Unauthenticated. CVE-2020-8243.

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Stay Ahead of Cyberthreats: Prisma Cloud and the Essential Eight Framework

Prisma Clud

Multifactor authentication (MFA) : MFA ensures that even if a password is compromised, the additional layer of security will prevent attackers from gaining access to the system. Patch Operating Systems : Regularly updating and patching operating systems to remediate vulnerabilities and security risks.

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