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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.

With organizations increasingly relying on third-party vendors, upping the third-party risk management game has become imperative to prevent the fallout of third-party compromises. Why you must do TPRM. Third-party risk management offers numerous advantages for companies.

In this Help Net Security video, Peter Manev, Chief Strategy Officer at Stamus Networks, discusses a pervasive problem plaguing security analysts called "Alert fatigue," - which occurs when security teams become desensitized to an overwhelming volume of alerts, causing them to miss or overlook critical events and have slower response times. The most talked about contributor to this problem is the number of alerts generated by threat detection systems.

John Hanley of IBM Security shares 4 key findings from the highly acclaimed annual Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 What is the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report? The IBM Cost of a Data Breach...