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Ransomware Strikes Manufacturers: Growing Threats to IP and Downtime
The manufacturing industry has found itself on the front lines of a relentless and escalating battle against ransomware attacks in recent years. These malicious threats are being launched at manufacturers of all sizes, and attacks no longer stop with data encryption. While causing downtime through operational and manufacturing disruption remains the most impactful way for…
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Mastering the Alert Storm – The Security Alert Management Process
Securing a home mortgage for a residential property can be an overwhelming experience given the sheer volume of paperwork involved. Amidst the myriad pages requiring your signature and initials, it’s easy to lose sight of the details you’re consenting to. This is where a closing attorney steps in to guide and elucidate. In today’s digital…
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Maintaining Operations, Connectivity, and Security in the Manufacturing Sector
Build it and they will come. Not only is it the famous line from a movie, but it also rings true for cybercriminals. In this case, it isn’t what is being built, but the manufacturing process itself that attracts nefarious characters. A 2022 study conducted by IBM showed that no industry is targeted by cyber…
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Why the Financial Sector Is Especially Vulnerable to the Insider Sabotage Threat
In the 2008 crime comedy movie Mad Money, three women with menial jobs at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City plot to steal money from the branch. Each works in a different department, but by leveraging their work responsibilities and unique access to areas of the building, they’re able to pull off their theft…
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Pre and Post Breach Insights From the MOVEit Incident – Strengthening Cyber Posture
In 1972, Edward Norton Lorenz, a mathematician and meteorologist, introduced the world to the Butterfly Effect, giving birth to the science of chaos theory. The “Butterfly Effect” rests on the notion that the world is so interconnected today, that a one-time small occurrence can have a major impact on a larger more complex system. He…
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Fueling Resilience: Optimization and Adapting the MITRE ATT&CK Framework for Robust Security
Sun Tzu was a Chinese military strategist and general best known as the author of the immortal work, The Art of War, which is still studied and quoted to this day. Sun Tzu was a believer in preparedness prior to battle and believed that battles are often won prior to being fought. One of his…