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SANS – The Five Most Dangerous Cyberattacks

According to SANS Institute Analysts, in today's interconnected world, cybersecurity has never been more critical. The sheer scale of cybercrime today, and the boldness of attackers, is hard for many

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Apr

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DDoS Attacks on Critical Infrastructure: A Look at Hydro-Québec’s Website Outage

Recently, the critical infrastructure of Canada has once again become the target of cyberattacks. Pro-Russian hacking groups have launched a series of DDoS or denial of service attacks, causing operational

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Mar

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The Indigo Bookstore Ransom Cyber Attack – Lessons Learned

The recent attack on the Indigo Bookstore left many cyber security analysts scratching their heads. How did attackers seize control of systems through ransomware, and how was a zero-day exploit

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Jan

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Analyzing Security Incidents for a Better Future Response

We wrote about Incident Response in blog post titled “Incident Response Technology has become Critical to Limiting Damage.” We discussed the dramatic increase in the number of attacks including the

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Sep

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Two-Thirds of Organizations Were Hit by a Ransomware Attack Last Year

In SpyCloud’s Ransomware Defense Report, its annual survey of CISOs or Chief Information Security Officers and heads of IT security from Canada, the UK, and US they found that that

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Jul

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How to Implement an Effective Vulnerability Management Program

We’ve written considerably on Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Assessments and Patching because they are so critical to preventing attacks. I’ve provided links to several of the most read blog posts we

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Jun

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Is an MDR Solution or an MSSP Partnership Better for Your Organization?

In this blog post, we want to analyze the differences between a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solution and a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) partnership and how organizations can

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Jun

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Why Incident Response Technology has become Critical to Limiting Damage

Businesses and organizations operating in today’s connected world face a variety of dangerous new threats from cyber criminals. To keep pace with the Digital Transformation, organizations have to provide convenience

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Apr

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The Fundamental Elements of Cyber Hygiene

Cyber Hygiene or IT hygiene involves best practices related to cybersecurity to protect your network and infrastructure from threats. It serves as the basic foundation for a proactive, systematic, and

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Feb

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Assessing and Mitigating the Log4j Vulnerability

A Vulnerability Management Case Study Authors of this blog post include Subramani Sundar- Director, Threat & Vulnerability Management, Tamika Miyashita- Security Project Manager, Tanveer Chowdhury- Security Manager, & Peter Bellarmine -

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