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Month: July 2019

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7 best practices for securing the public cloud

Credit to Author: Sally Adam| Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2019 15:54:15 +0000

Given the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of the public cloud, it’s no surprise that more and more organizations are turning to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You can spin up a new instance in minutes, scale resources up and down whenever you need while only paying for what you use, [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/cMnjeioMV-8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Throwback Thursday: Spoilsport

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2019 03:00:00 -0700

This IT security pilot fish knows something about audits — and knows what he expects of auditors.

“I have more than 15 years of audit experience in IT,” fish says. “I have written and implemented policy and procedure, and developed incident response plans. I spent the better part of last year making sure that the external auditors could not find any inconsistencies in our control standards.”

Then the internal audit director decides to perform an audit of fish’s group — and sends a young auditor who thinks he knows everything IT.

After three weeks of research and testing, young auditor presents his results in a meeting with his boss the audit director and fish.

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How Intercept X Advanced can help you avoid becoming a ransomware victim

Credit to Author: Sally Adam| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 20:26:06 +0000

Tourists aren’t the only ones looking at Florida this summer. As the Sunshine State ramps up to greet a flock of vacationers, it’s also facing some far less welcome visitors. Over the last few weeks, cybercriminals have targeted Florida with advanced ransomware attacks requesting heavy payments in return for restoring data. In one example, the [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/aDvMvVeudaQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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How Intercept X Advanced can help you avoid becoming the next ransomware victim

Credit to Author: Sally Adam| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 20:26:06 +0000

Tourists aren’t the only ones looking at Florida this summer. As the Sunshine State ramps up to greet a flock of vacationers, it’s also facing some far less welcome visitors. Over the last few weeks, cybercriminals have targeted Florida with advanced ransomware attacks requesting heavy payments in return for restoring data. In one example, the [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/aDvMvVeudaQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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