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The Endless Debate: Is the Cloud Secure? – Part 1 of “Moving to the Cloud”

Credit to Author: Steven Turney| Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:39:56 +0000

This is the first blog in a series of three on why and how companies are moving their building security management to the cloud. I can’t tell you how many… Read more »

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SecurityTrendMicro

Not All Threats Are Created Equal

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:00:11 +0000

Macs have become more vulnerable as their collective market share has increased.In today’s world, security teams are bombarded constantly with security events and threat information from multiple sources, making it impossible to address each threat with the same amount of urgency. Where does one even start? We know every threat should be addressed, but not all threats are created equal. How do we determine which ones…

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SecurityTrendMicro

Five reasons you need to join an MSP program… today!

Credit to Author: Ryan Delany| Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 17:52:43 +0000

Insurance is a tricky subject in the age of cybercrime.Managed service providers (MSPs) offer a broad set of services to their customers, including configuring, managing, maintaining, monitoring and securing increasingly complex IT environments. In addition, they also have a business to run, employees to manage, technician utilization to monitor, profits to grow, expenses to keep in check … the list goes on and on….

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ComputerWorldIndependent

Kill it! Kill Windows XP now!

Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 04:20:00 -0700

The headline — “HMS Queen Elizabeth is ‘running outdated Windows XP’, raising cyber attack fears” — was startling, but wrong. The United Kingdom’s newest aircraft carrier wasn’t running Windows XP. But some of the contractors that built the warship were.

The U.S. Navy, meanwhile, has been purchasing Windows XP support, at least through this year, so odds are our military still has XP systems running to this very day.

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ComputerWorldIndependent

With Patch Tuesday imminent, make sure you have Automatic Update turned off

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 04:17:00 -0700

In case you hadn’t noticed, Microsoft has had a tough time with patches this year. From a total lack of patches in February (except for a late IE patch), to yanked and reissued botched patches that followed, to a jumble of problems with Windows and Office patches — including seven admitted bugs in last month’s Office patches — Microsoft has proved itself adept at Jack-in-the-box patching. You don’t have to join the legions of unpaid patch beta testers.

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