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How to protect remote workers from the coronavirus crime wave
As predicted, the coronavirus crisis is bringing out the worst in cybercriminals. But the attacks are really just old exploits modified to exploit the new coronavirus context. Here’s how to beat them.
How remote access tools can help your businesses adapt to the coronavirus
Coronavirus has created unprecedented challenges for companies and their employees across the globe and remote access tools are helping them meet them.
Don’t let the coronavirus make you a home office security risk
Congratulations. You're now the chief security officer of your company’s newest branch office: Your home. Here's how to manage your new job.
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Post-coronavirus planning calls for more (not less) investment in tech
The coronavirus crisis is just beginning. But it will end. And how you fare after the pandemic depends on what you do right now. Here are four areas to focus on.
COVID-19 and tech: New collaboration tools mean new security risks
As the coronavirus forces companies to move their communication and file sharing onto collaboration platforms, be prepared for unintended consequences: New security threats will surface, requiring new methods of securing your...
Coronavirus: What companies are ready for our new reality?
One class of companies is already equipped to work in a fully distributed employee model. Another going to have a difficult time adapting to most employees having to work from home. Some won’t survive if this lasts more than a few...
What your business can do about the coronavirus ... right now
The Covid-19 crisis is the Black Swan event of our lifetime. Here's how to hold it all together (while keeping employees apart).
Review: Achieving enlightened segmentation with Illumio
While segmentation is a powerful defensive tool, it’s also difficult to manage and can easily break applications that need to communicate with other services or the outside world. The Illumio platform solves many of these headaches.
Release the monkey! How Infection Monkey tests network security
This free, open source penetration testing tool uses real attacks and real techniques to try and exploit its way into a network.
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Next-generation endpoint security goes beyond the endpoint
AI and behavioral analysis are key to elevating the level of security for devices and back-end systems and are a prerequisite for IoT devices and services. Is your vendor moving in the right direction?
7 best practices for managing a multi-cloud environment
Multi-cloud strategies and hybrid IT environments bring a set of challenges that technology leaders might not have expected.
Review: LogicHub expertly automates security
It’s not only highly effective at diagnosing and countering threats, but it does so in a transparent way that is configurable and editable by users.
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Securing the IoT is a nightmare
Currently, we have over 26-billion IoT devices running in our workplaces, offices and homes. If you're looking for an IoT security scorecard, it looks something like this: Security Threats: 26,000,000,000, IoT Secure Devices: 0.
Why manipulation campaigns are the biggest threat facing the 2020 election
This era of political espionage is rooted in manipulative ads, fake news articles and other forms of digital content. It's one of the nation’s greatest threats, especially as we approach the 2020 presidential election.
Google and Microsoft have gone too far
Google and Microsoft are using dark pattern design to trick or force users to do things they never intended. Is it time to switch to more ethical search engines? (We list 10 alternatives.)
3 reasons you can’t fight facial recognition
The biometric backlash is but a brief blip. Resistance is futile. You WILL be identified. But is that good or bad?
