Case Study WordPress and the Danger of Third Party Plugins

WordPress, with it's ever-growing popularity, is an attractive target for attackers. Many of its security issues come from third-party plugins and themes. Getting these listed on WordPress.org requires approval and must adhere to a strict list of guidelines. After this initial approval, however, future changes go through a less-stringent vetting process. This means your secure plugin of today could be your attacker's plugin of choice when it is updated in six months.

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WireX is an innovative network intelligence and forensics company that is changing the way businesses resolve cyber-attacks. The company was founded in 2010 to deliver cutting-edge security forensics systems for intelligence agencies across the globe. Today, leading enterprises choose WireX as a key component in their forensics infrastructure to accelerate incident response, mitigate data theft and simplify responding to the magnitude of security alerts they must action every day.

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OT/IoT Security Report Cyber War Insights, Threats and Trends, Recommendations

whitePaper | August 30, 2022

Nozomi Networks Labs is dedicated to reducing cyber risk for the world’s industrial and critical infrastructure organizations. Through its cybersecurity research and collaboration with industry and institutions, it helps defend the operational systems that support everyday life. The Labs team conducts investigations into industrial device vulnerabilities and, through a responsible disclosure process, contributes to the publication of advisories by recognized authorities.

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N-able N-central Security White Paper

whitePaper | June 22, 2023

As an integral component of your IT management system, N-able N-central® complements an organization’s existing security policies and infrastructures. N-able N-central consists of a number of components that were specifically designed to provide flexibility as well as to ensure the integrity of the security of the networks on which N-able Ncentral operates.

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Dell VxRail: Comprehensive Security by Design

whitePaper | September 29, 2022

In today’s world, business organizations and individuals have become accustomed to accessing the information they need 24 hours a day, seven days a week, often within seconds of making a request. To illustrate, an ad marketing study conducted by Google found that 53% of website sessions are terminated if pages take longer than three seconds to load.

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The State of Ransomware in Manufacturing and Production 2022

whitePaper | October 6, 2022

Sophos' annual study of the real-world ransomware experiences of IT professionals in the manufacturing and production sector has revealed an ever more challenging attack environment. Together with the growing financial and operational burden ransomware places on its victims, it also shines new light on the relationship between ransomware and cyber insurance - including how insurance drives changes to cyber defenses.

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Leading Cybersecurity in Higher Education

whitePaper | February 11, 2023

Higher-education institutions are experiencing a high volume of cyberattacks and greater vulnerability to threats. Today’s educational technology environments connect a variety of endpoints—laptops, desktops, student management data, and email servers. They use Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices for managing environmental controls, security cameras, and door alarms. Both ends of the education spectrum gather, store, and use personal data from students and staff—and if they collect it, they must also protect it. As a result, schools need dedicated, skilled, and experienced executive leadership that is empowered, resourced, and responsible for campuswide cybersecurity issues.

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Threat Connect Cyber Survey Report

whitePaper | January 4, 2022

Whether you are in financial services, farming, or public infrastructure, the security threat to organizations has never been greater. Today, almost every company is a technology company in some shape or form and this can be a soft underbelly - open to attack. Cyber risk is the fastest-growing risk faced by businesses globally. A wide range of statistics and sources make it clear that attackers have become even more proficient over recent years, using automation to exploit vulnerabilities at an accelerated pace and frequency. Threats are even more widespread and complex than before.

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WireX Systems

WireX is an innovative network intelligence and forensics company that is changing the way businesses resolve cyber-attacks. The company was founded in 2010 to deliver cutting-edge security forensics systems for intelligence agencies across the globe. Today, leading enterprises choose WireX as a key component in their forensics infrastructure to accelerate incident response, mitigate data theft and simplify responding to the magnitude of security alerts they must action every day.

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