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Every business with a digital footprint, regardless of its nature or size, is vulnerable to cyberthreats. But small businesses, in particular, find themselves in a more perilous position. Apart...

In this Help Net Security interview, Umaimah Khan, CEO of Opal Security, shares her insights on implementing the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP). She discusses best practices for effective...

In this Help Net Security, Ankita Gupta, CEO at Akto, discusses API security best practices, advocating for authentication protocols like OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, strict HTTPS encryption, and the use of JWTs for stateless authentication. Use shift left tools to catch authentication and authorization issues early in the development process, ensuring that security is a foundational aspect of your API. What metrics or indicators should organizations focus on to detect and respond to API security threats?

Nearly half of Americans, 46%, have had a password stolen in the past year. Password attacks on businesses can expose even more critical information: In November 2023, hackers were able to steal the personal and genetic information of 6.9 million people from 23andMe after leveraging stolen account sessions and legitimate log-in credentials.

What are some patch management best practices and techniques? Following patch management "Golden rules" such as patching on test machines and organizing rollout beforehand.

This article will explore how Wazuh helps implement best security practices for containerized environments. Wazuh ensures regulatory compliance by swiftly addressing security events in container hosts and enforcing security controls against evolving threats.

Even with the best-of-the-best tools and tech stack monitoring vulnerabilities, every security executive and GRC leader should still have some layer of paranoia. In this Help Net Security video, Shrav Mehta, CEO at Secureframe, talks about security best practices for GRC teams, highlights areas that security learners should pay close attention to, and discusses how security leaders can automate specific processes.

Nudge Security discovers all SaaS apps ever introduced by anyone in your organization and offers automation and orchestration capabilities to make it easy to implement SaaS security best practices. Read on to see how you can use Nudge Security to assess SaaS security, prioritize your efforts, and visualize the progress you're making toward your goals.

The NSA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have released five joint cybersecurity bulletins containing on best practices for securing a cloud environment. Today, the NSA and CISA have issued five join documents on how to secure your cloud services using best practices.

A passphrase functions as a password, granting you access to a system or application, but instead of a string of random characters, it's a combination of words, numbers and symbols. In this article, we provide examples of passphrases and discuss the different types and best practices for using them for personal or business-related accounts.