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Data breach incidents involving Elasticsearch have been commonly rooted in this lack of attention, as well as a poor overall understanding of Elasticsearch security requirements. This can add up to a perfect storm from a security perspective: Elasticsearch is tremendously easy to deploy, but just as simple to forget about when it comes to hardening security that properly restricts access and protects data.

Abstract: Best practices for Internet of Things security have recently attracted considerable attention worldwide from industry and governments, while academic research has highlighted the failure of many IoT product manufacturers to follow accepted practices. We explore not the failure to follow best practices, but rather a surprising lack of understanding, and void in the literature, on what "Best practice" means, independent of meaningfully identifying specific individual practices.

SOC 2 compliance is evaluated by independent third-party auditors who assess a company's ability to comply with these core principles. SOC 2 was developed by the American Institute of CPAs and designed specifically for service providers that store customer data in the cloud, meaning virtually every SaaS company operating today should consider achieving SOC 2 compliance.

SOCs are familiar with natural disasters and other inclement weather that includes floods, tornadoes and even ice storms, and it's critical to keep a SOC operational in the event that there is reduced local staff or access to physical infrastructure. SOCs operate as busy, open-office environments with team members working closely together to monitor and mitigate threats.

The Shared Assessments Program issued "CCPA Privacy Guidelines & Checklists," the security and risk industry's first comprehensive set of best practices and tools to help organizations comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act. "As participants networked this past year to share ideas, best practices and pain points, the committee initiated a set of Privacy White Papers to help industry peers navigate and provide checklists to map their progress."

Businesses must accelerate the shift to comprehensive continuous software testing in order to remain competitive, according to a report released by Capgemini and Broadcom. While 55% of the enterprises surveyed have now adopted a continuous software testing approach, its slow increase in maturity demonstrates a critical challenge for organizations to overcome.

The process of constructing a holistic policy-based identity management solution can be difficult and overly complex, especially in the sensitive hospital environment with myriad identities. An integrated identity ecosystem provides a unified view across both cyber and physical security system; improving the overall hospital experience.

Automated tools exist to ensure that your Windows servers stay as secure and trouble-free as the day they were set up. Here is a simple set of management principles that are easy to implement at any budget and skill level to help your IT department take hold of its Windows servers and make sure they are managed efficiently and securely, while being optimized to deliver the best performance possible.

Infoblox, the leader in Secure Cloud-Managed Network Services, announced Enterprise best practices on DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS. These DoT/DoH guidelines are based on Infoblox's longtime commitment to providing customers with DDI services that enable them to easily and effectively secure their own DNS communications. "Developments like DoT and DoH are valuable efforts to address this problem, but when they are used to bypass a company's internal DNS infrastructure or evade their security controls, a host of new challenges emerge for IT managers."

Cisco's CISO Benchmark Study for 2020 offers some perspective on the dynamic nature of security work as well as some best practices to make life a little easier and data somewhat more secure. Threats from mobile devices are now the biggest security threat with more than half of the respondents said mobile devices are now very or extremely challenging to defend.