Top Cyber Security Changes Will Be Seen Post Covid-19

In the age of big data and exponentially growing cloud services - data breach is just one aspect of everyday life.

It is definitely an unfortunate thing if it happens, but as it was explained above - it is far from inevitable.

All it takes to avoid data breaches from happening is keeping a close eye on what is going on with the data and where it is going.

Knowledge is half the battle won - you need to be cautious about the value of your data and the ways it can be exposed.

In this article, we have shown you exactly how to lessen the risks of data breaches and wholly avoid such events.More about data breaches

Would you leave your house unlocked when you are going out?

How many times have you had to go back inside to check if you turned off the oven or the iron even though you already checked it?

It is the responsibility of all businesses to protect their customers and in order to do it, they need to be aware of the threats they are facing and how to stop them.This article will cover the top 3 most common cyber attacks online businesses are facing.

This is a form of social engineering attack in which a cyber criminal pretends to be a trusted contact and by doing so they trick the user into handing over valuable and sensitive information.

That could be account or credit card details, credentials, some intellectual property, or anything else they might need.Did you know that 91% of attacks launch with a phishing email?

Who would’ve questioned an email that looks like it has been sent by your bank or by your CEO?Social engineering attacks explain how easy it is actually to exploit human psychology and why everyone needs to be aware of all the risks they might encounter in their businesses.

Not only that, offices and companies are using major video chatting apps to collaborating with their employees, and most formal meetings are also happening on Skype or Zoom.There is no doubt that internet attackers see this as an opportunity as they can now try their hands on video meeting apps.

Your video conferencing is not as safe as you consider it, and there are dozens of privacy and cybersecurity issues hanging around you as long as you stay in a meeting.There are many things that users still need to learn for improving their cyber hygiene while using video calls.

Some are reporting inappropriate content that was played during their video conference.The truth is even more dreadful as the internet attackers or third parties can be a silent listener in a meeting and may try to show you that he is one of you.

This silent listener in the video chats can listen to the sensitive subjects of your business even it will see everything you show via screen sharing.There are certain bad happening during video conferencing in recent past weeks.

When the speaker was presenting his speech in the meeting, the silent listener suddenly turned on his screen sharing and wrote “Stupid” in huge size letters.

This was a seriously disappointing turning point in video conferencing technology.

A data breach refers to the leak of confidential information.

Thousands of companies fall victim to data breach where hackers gain unauthorized access to their system and steal confidential data.Cybercriminals often steal data and encrypt it to deny access to the owner of the data, in return hackers ask for a ransom to decrypt data.The text above is a summary, you can read full article here.

Multiple Critical vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2021-1609 were discovered in the web-based management interface of Cisco Products.

The flaw exists due to improper validation of HTTP requests and can be exploited by sending specially crafted HTTP requests.A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to a vulnerable device, resulting in arbitrary code execution as well as the ability to reload the device, resulting in a denial of service.

The ability to trigger arbitrary code execution from one machine on another machine is often referred to as remote code execution.https://bit.ly/3xzgLGgFor More Information: Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerability in Small Business VPN Routers  

Imagine you’re living in a big house full of people ( family) and everybody has access to almost every room of it.

But, then there is one safe room containing all your important documents and extremely precious assets.

Would you be comfortable in sharing its access to all?

Or would you prefer to keep it safe, closed, and accessible to only you?Chances are even that you will set a monitoring system for it too.

This is exactly why and how privileged user monitoring is needed and works in organizations too.What Do You Mean by Privileged Access?In this process, some have access to the organization’s most crucial data.

This is often the most sensitive and vital information of the organization and needs some monitoring while accessing so as to avoid any unauthorized access and threat.

Know how hackers have managed to break through the financial institutes that can be a scary affair even for a common man.

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