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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. There aren’t a lot of people that focus on security for reporters.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO

7 With the vast majority (estimated around 85%) of Internet traffic encrypted, there is exponential growth in security risks posed by encrypted channels that can hide harmful content such as viruses, spyware, and other malware challenging security teams to secure an increasingly distributed enterprise and avoid costly repercussions.

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My New Year’s Resolution: Going Passwordless!

Ivanti

Another best practice that I started several years ago was to adopt a passwordless authentication initiative for all my internet connected personal devices. Fortunately for me, my company began enforcing zero sign-on authentication along with deploying a multi-layered anti-phishing protection system several years back.

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9 Types of Phishing and Ransomware Attacks—And How to Identify Them

Ivanti

According to the Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, phishing held the top spot as the data breach tactic used most often, jumping from 25% of all data breaches in 2020 to 36% in 2021. Pharming employs authentic-looking hyperlinks in phishing emails that redirect end users from a specific, legitimate site to a malicious one?by

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The State of Security in 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This report focuses primarily on the security team members, though we’ll look from time to time at the others; they also have valuable information about what their companies are doing. Most companies have implemented multifactor authentication, endpoint security, and zero trust. are concerned about spyware, 7.6% Only 10.0%

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Congratulations to the Winners Who Escaped the Dreaded Haunted House of IT

Kaseya

As per the Verizon 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, over 80 percent of hacking-related breaches involve brute force or the use of lost or stolen credentials. The Weapon: Two-Factor Authentication. It prevents hackers from gaining easy access to your systems through the use of weak or stolen login credentials.

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The Future of Security

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This report covers four of the most important trends: Zero trust (ZT) security (also known as context-aware security, policy-based enforcement), which is becoming more widespread and dominates many enterprise and vendor conversations. Every device user and network flow is authenticated and authorized. Mobile Device Security.

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