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Using real customer data in testing environments creates unnecessary risk

A new study polling 1,000 software developers and startup employees found 29% of companies use unprotected production data (real customer data) in testing environments when testing and troubleshooting their company’s software — increasing the risk of exposure in the event of a data breach. Unprotected production data is defined as data that is not de-identified or generated synthetically, according to Tonic.ai. The study found 45% of respondents said their companies have faced a major data … More → The post Using real customer data in testing environments creates unnecessary risk appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Arcserve SaaS Backup protects evolving data environments

Arcserve has extended its SaaS Backup offering to provide secure and scalable data protection for Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and Azure Active environments. Arcserve SaaS Backup gives organizations of all sizes and channel partners control of critical data by safeguarding against data loss and ensuring continuous availability with automated cloud-to-cloud backup and data recovery. When data moves to a SaaS provider’s data center, many organizations do not realize they are responsible … More → The post Arcserve SaaS Backup protects evolving data environments appeared first on Help Net Security.
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VA staff shortages show no job is menial

At least one agency has a severe staffing shortage in that particular occupational code. Namely, the Veterans Health Administration. The workplace can turn bad pretty fast. Especially if that workplace is a hospital.
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Optimizing Your Agency’s ‘Digital Door’ to Drive Both Security and Equity

During this exclusive webinar, learn how organizations are curating the best digital experience for citizens and customers alike.
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NetDiligence Breach Plan Connect updates provide senior managers with cyber incident response plan

NetDiligence updates their cyber incident response plan solution Breach Plan Connect. Breach Plan Connect (BPC) is a solution for senior managers to develop a cyber incident response plan to help oversee and coordinate their organization’s response to a cyber incident. BPC users can set up an incident response plan within minutes and easily customize it to best serve their particular organization. This cloud-based software solution is a favorite among many cyber insurance providers, in part, … More → The post NetDiligence Breach Plan Connect updates provide senior managers with cyber incident response plan appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Infortrend introduces WORM and MFA features on EonStor GS to keep data safe from ransomware

Infortrend Technology introduces immutable object storage or write-once-read-many (WORM) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) security features to their EonStor GS unified storage solutions, ensuring the safety of stored data, specifically against ransomware. Ransomware attacks today are still rising, showing that the traditional ways to prevent these threats such as firewalls and antivirus are not full-proof methods. Therefore, enterprises have started utilizing immutable or WORM storage repositories to take advantage of its write-once-read-many characteristics to protect archived … More → The post Infortrend introduces WORM and MFA features on EonStor GS to keep data safe from ransomware appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Updates to the Critical Infrastructure Information Act are long overdue

The health of the U.S. economy and well-being of our citizens relies on secure critical infrastructure but the Critical Infrastructure Information Act of 2002 has not been updated since it was first introduced.
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New OSINT foundation aims to ‘professionalize’ open source discipline across spy agencies

The new foundation plans to provide OSINT certifications and advocate for a dedicated program of record within the intelligence community.
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Organizations need to change their strategy to reduce cyber risk

Traditional security approaches that rely on reactive, detect-and-respond measures and tedious manual processes can’t keep pace with the volume, variety, and velocity of current threats, according to Skybox Security. As a result, 27% of all executives and 40% of CSOs say their organizations are not well prepared for today’s rapidly shifting threat landscape. This Help Net Security video uncovers why conventional cybersecurity approaches are falling short. The post Organizations need to change their strategy to reduce cyber risk appeared first on Help Net Security.
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