Security Challenges and Opportunities of Remote Work

Are We Too Trusting of Employees?
Trust is not a one-way street. Employees who trust their organization and leadership are one lane, but the organization must trust its employees, too ...
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Why RBAC is Still a Big Deal in 2024
For many experts, the verdict is that RBAC remains a big deal because it delivers on two crucial fronts: It keeps organizations secure while enabling them to remain agile and innovative. In ...
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The Crucial Influence of Human Factors in Security Breaches
Prashant Ketkar | | breaches, Human Error, human factor, MFA, Phishing, remote browser isolation, Vulnerabilities, zero trust
The hard truth is that security breaches often happen because of human mistakes from simple, everyday actions. It's not just employees unknowingly using unsecured Wi-Fi – it's phishing, weak passwords and a ...
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Apple Enrages IT — 45-Day Cert Expiration Fury
Richi Jennings | | 90-day certificates, 90-day TLS certificate validity, Apple, Apple Safari, browser, Browser Security, CA/B Forum, CA/Browser Forum, CAB Forum, certificate, Certificate and Key Lifecycle Management, Certificate and Key Management, Certificate Automation, mobile safari, Safari, SB Blogwatch, Sectigo
CA/B testing: Ludicrous proposal draws ire from “furious” systems administrators ...
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Digital Crack for Kids: TikTok Sued Again by 14 AGs
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?
For You Plague: TikTok’s in trouble once more—this time, some states complain it’s breaking laws by harvesting children’s data and keeping them addicted ...
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Biggest Ever DDoS is Threat to OT Critical Infrastructure
Richi Jennings | | Analyzing DDoS Attacks, application-layer DDoS attacks, Cloudflare DDoS Protection, Critical Infrastructure, critical infrastructure attack, critical infrastructure attacks, Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, cyber attack on critical infrastructure, ddos, DDoS amplification, DDoS attack, distributed denial of service, Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, distributed denial of service attack, ICS, ICS/SCADA systems, industrial control systems, Infrastructure, iot, operational technologies, operational technology, operational technology security, OT, SB Blogwatch, US critical infrastructure
Egyptian River Floods: Operational technology (OT) targeted in “world record” 3.8 Tb/s distributed denial of service (DDoS) ...
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E2EE is MIA in iPhone/Android Chat — GSMA Gonna Fix it
Richi Jennings | | android, Apple, Apple iOS, Apple iPhone, china, E2EE, end-to-end, end-to-end encryption, google, Great Firewall of China, GSMA, iChat, imessage, ios, iOS 18, iPhone, iphone security, MLS, RCS, RCS protocol, SB Blogwatch, SMS, SMS messages
No More Barf-Green Bubbles? GSM Association is “excited” to bring Apple and Google closer together, but encryption is still lacking ...
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Why Breaking into Cybersecurity Isn’t as Easy as You Think
We're told over and over again that there are hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity vacancies in the U.S. and millions worldwide. But from what I hear, many new entrants to the application ...
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BYOD Policies Fueling Security Risks
The use of employee mobile devices at work, or bring your own device (BYOD), is a significant and growing threat to organizational security ...
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Microsoft Fixes Four 0-Days — One Exploited for SIX YEARS
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2024-38014, CVE-2024-38217, CVE-2024-38226, CVE-2024-43491, KB5043083, KB5043936, Mark of the Web, Microsoft, Microsoft Patch Tuesday September 2024, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Zero Day, Patch Tuesday, SB Blogwatch, Windows, Windows Update
Week B: Bugs begone! This month Redmond fixes 79 security flaws in Windows and other products ...
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