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Data Security and Cloud Computing

• How to prevent password attacks and other exploits

  Prevention is essential to protection against various types of password attacks, unauthorized access and related threats. Expert Adam Gordon outlines how to proactively bolster your defenses. Continue Reading

• The best email security comes through strategy and tactics

  The best email security policy requires a holistic approach of the issue, understanding both the problem's scope and the most likely threats. Continue Reading

• Why threat models are crucial for secure software development

  Threat modeling is an important component of the secure software development process. Steve Lipner of SafeCode explains how threat models benefit software security. Continue Reading

• Learn how to identify and prevent access control attacks

  Once an attacker has gained entry to a network, the consequences can be severe. Find out how the right access control tools can help prevent that from happening. Continue Reading

• Are companies with a SOC team less likely to get breached?

  Information security operations centers are “growing up,” according to one study. But, with staffing shortages and manual collection of data, performance metrics are hard to get. Continue Reading

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  • DMZ (networking)
  • quantum supremacy
  • Web application firewall (WAF)

  • spyware
  • application whitelisting
  • botnet
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• vulnerability disclosure

  Vulnerability disclosure is the practice of publishing information about a computer security problem, and a type of policy that stipulates guidelines for doing so.Continue Reading

• The Basics of Cyber Safety

  In this excerpt from chapter four of The Basics of Cyber Safety, authors John Sammons and Michael Cross discuss basic email security.Continue Reading

• cyber attribution

  Cyber attribution is the process of tracking, identifying and laying blame on the perpetrator of a cyberattack or other hacking exploit.Continue Reading

• What's the best career path to get CISSP certified?

  The CISSP certification can be a challenge to obtain. Mike Rothman unveils how to get on the right education and career tracks in order to get CISSP certified.Continue Reading

• Considerations for developing a cyber threat intelligence team

  The use of a cyber threat intelligence team can greatly help organizations. Learn the best practices for team location and selection from expert Robert M. Lee.Continue Reading

• Crafting a cybersecurity incident response plan, step by step

  'Swift' and 'automatic': key characteristics of effective incident response. But how to get from where your plan is to where it needs to be? This handbook has the answers.Continue Reading

• Make your incident response policy a living document

  Effective incident response policies must be detailed, comprehensive and regularly updated -- and then 'embedded in the hearts and minds' of infosec team members.Continue Reading

• CISSP Domain 4 quiz: Network security basics

  Think you know network security basics inside and out? Take this 10-question quiz to find out how well you’ve prepared for Domain 4 of the CISSP exam.Continue Reading

• Prevent a network security attack by isolating the infrastructure

  It may sound like network security basics, but don't underestimate the power of proper segmentation and isolation as an effective way to protect your enterprise network from attack.Continue Reading

• CISSP Domain 4: Communications and network security

  Brush up on network security fundamentals like segmentation and secure routing in this CISSP exam study guide for Domain 4, Communication and Network Security.Continue Reading