Survey: Small Business Security

"Many small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are not taking measures to protect against security risks, and cyber criminals are starting to take notice. In fact, the number of attacks against SMBs nearly doubled from 18 percent in 2011 to 31 percent in 2013. Why the increased attention on smaller sized businesses? According to CSID’  2014 SMB survey, 31 percent of small businesses are not taking any active measures to protect against security threats. "

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SaltStack intelligent automation helps enterprise IT operations, SecOps, and DevOps teams manage and secure a software-defined world. SaltStack is unique in offering event-driven automation for cloud and container control, infrastructure and application configuration management, continuous compliance, and IT security solutions for enterprise IT and web-scale data center environments. SaltStack is the most scalable, flexible and efficient systems management platform available today and provides substantially more value and functionality compared to legacy alternatives.

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Dashlane’s Security Principles & Architecture

whitePaper | May 16, 2023

Dashlane Business supports login with single sign-on (SSO), using any SAML 2.0 enabled IdP. In a single-sign-on setup, the user doesn’t have to input UserMP . Instead, a random key is generated at account creation. This key (the data encryption key) is delivered to the Dashlane app after the user successfully logs in to the IdP, and it is used as a symmetric encryption key to encrypt and decrypt the user data.

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How to Prepare For & Respond to Ransomware in Operational Technology Environments

whitePaper | March 14, 2023

Targeted intrusions for gaining long-term access and collecting data about industrial control systems (ICS) are becoming much more frequent. Many of these attacks are about understanding the network and preparing for future activities without causing any immediate impact. The most recent Dragos Year in Review6 report shows that the ransomware groups Lockbit 2.0 and Conti were responsible for more than half of the observed ransomware attacks in industrial environments in 2021, and that these instances resulted in actions on objectives. These attacks have been observed in almost every industrial vertical, primarily targeting small to medium-sized organizations in manufacturing.

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Building the next generation of security and privacy professionals

whitePaper | October 4, 2022

Organizational practices in the digital age are inevitably linked to the processing of data, and built upon the systems that support these efforts. Collectively, cybersecurity and privacy professionals are responsible for guiding and implementing organizational decisions that ensure data is collected, processed, protected and shared consistent with evolving norms.

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Optimizing Your Zero Trust Environment for Secure Video Conferencing

whitePaper | July 4, 2023

We’ve all heard the buzz around the virtual water cooler that Zero Trust Architectures are The Next Big Thing in network security, but what do we really know about them? And, perhaps more relevant to our discussion today, why should you care? This white paper looks at how and why Zero Trust (ZT) defines a data-centric security model and what that means in a real-time production environment. We build on that conversation to take a deeper look at how Pexip's video conferencing platform integrates with your existing ZT strategy and can even give you some new ZT concept ideas to consider.

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The ‘Zero Trust’ Model in Cybersecurity: Towards understanding and deployment

whitePaper | August 24, 2022

In the last couple of years, “zero trust” has gained significant traction in the cybersecurity realm as a means to protect networks and increase security across organizations. In part, the growing popularity of this security model can be attributed to the shift to hybrid working practices that call for a more secure work environment whether on- or off-premises.

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Acronis Cyber Protection Operation Centers Report: Ransomware dominates threat landscape

whitePaper | November 24, 2022

Acronis was the first company to implement complete integrated cyber protection to protect all data, applications and systems. Cyber protection requires the researching and monitoring of threats, as well as abiding by the five vectors of safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity and security, or SAPAS. As part of the strategy, we’ve established four Cyber Protection Operation Centers (CPOCs) around the world to monitor and research cyberthreats 24/7.

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SaltStack

SaltStack intelligent automation helps enterprise IT operations, SecOps, and DevOps teams manage and secure a software-defined world. SaltStack is unique in offering event-driven automation for cloud and container control, infrastructure and application configuration management, continuous compliance, and IT security solutions for enterprise IT and web-scale data center environments. SaltStack is the most scalable, flexible and efficient systems management platform available today and provides substantially more value and functionality compared to legacy alternatives.

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