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How to do that efficiently and effectively is no small task - but with a small investment of time, you can master threat hunting and save your organization millions of dollars. This article offers a detailed explanation of threat hunting - what it is, how to do it thoroughly and effectively, and how cyber threat intelligence can bolster your threat-hunting efforts.

The CIS Critical Security Controls are a prioritized set of safeguards to mitigate cyber-attacks against systems and networks. They are mapped to and referenced by multiple legal, regulatory, and policy frameworks.

The mainstream emergence of cryptocurrency, coupled with its popularity among cybercriminals, has created a potentially dangerous environment for those with significant crypto holdings. In this Help Net Security video, Nick Percoco, Chief Security Officer at Kraken, explains why it's important for crypto holders to think about personal security as an ongoing, holistic process, and offers tips on how to safeguard crypto assets.

DevOps does not mesh well with traditional security protocols, and this creates a sticky situation for CISOs to counter. How can CISOs facilitate this integration and create an agile security mechanism that complements agile development?

Following heightened worries that U.S. users' data had been accessed by TikTok engineers in China between September 2021 and January 2022, the company sought to assuage U.S. lawmakers that it's taking steps to "Strengthen data security." "Employees outside the U.S., including China-based employees, can have access to TikTok U.S. user data subject to a series of robust cybersecurity controls and authorization approval protocols overseen by our U.S.-based security team," TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew wrote in the memo.

Cyber attacks will continue to be a threat to businesses, but with Dell Technologies you can have peace of mind that your data and IT assets are secure, protected, and available. We stop at nothing to help thwart threats with intrinsically secure infrastructure and devices, comprehensive detection and response, data protection, and cyber-recovery.

Former foreign secretary Dominic Raab rebuked GCHQ for secretly halting internal compliance audits that ensured the spy agency was obeying the law, a government report has revealed - while just 0.06 per cent of spying requests made by Britain's public sector were refused by its supposed overseer. Explaining how GCHQ's COVID excuse "Deviated from our expectations," IPCO said: "The IPC and the Foreign Secretary made clear to GCHQ that, in future, they expect GCHQ to inform them of any changes relevant to the handling of warranted data."

The survey reinforces the need for healthcare organizations to integrate digital technology and solutions into all areas of the business ecosystem, including secure payment technology to provide peace of mind and ensure patients enjoy secure and seamless payment experiences. Between large hospital networks, private practices, specialists, and urgent care, the survey found that 44% of respondents felt that private practices handled payment and personally identifiable information most securely, and large hospital networks were rated by even fewer at 33%. With a 25% increase in healthcare data breaches year over year and reports of hospitals accounting for 30% of all large data breaches, patients have a heightened sense of awareness and interest in the processes their providers take to protect their information.

The bug, now officially denoted CVE-2021-44248, involves sending a request to a vulnerable server in which you include some data - for example, an HTTP header - that you expect the server will write to its logfile. Not just any old download: if the data that comes back is a valid Java program, then the server runs that file to "Help" it generate the logging data.

This influx calls for us to re-examine the HIPAA Security Rule to ensure healthcare entities are protecting patient information. Two notable rules were added to HIPAA: the Privacy Rule, to help cover the physical security of PHI, and the Security Rule, to safeguard electronic protected health information.