6 Essential skills needed for Advanced Penetration Testing

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Advanced penetration testing helps identify not just the vulnerabilities and security gaps in the overall IT infrastructure, but also recommends employee training and more importantly, methods to mitigate risks found. The need for ethical hacking and penetration testing arises from the fact that they are considered initial elements...

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4 Reasons every CISO should learn Digital Forensics

The role of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)  is significant in organizations with sophisticated cybersecurity protocols. A CISO can handle internal and external risk management for the IT landscape. Nowadays, cybersecurity is one of the biggest concerns that every business comes for it to ensure the safety of...

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Types of Network Security Attacks

Internet is today’s bread-giver as many people rely on it for various professional, social, and personal activities. The communication, sharing of data, business transactions, or in short, the entire trade and commerce industry is dependent on the network. Though the internet can network and connect the world-at-large, some...

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How to bring Networking and Security together

Surprisingly, networking and security were once upon a time considered different entities; where security solutions like firewalls were applied to the network after their construction. The security team was concerned about the security defense mechanism and threat detection methods based on time and a defined perimeter. On another...

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6 Types of Password Attacks commonly used by Ethical Hackers

Password attacks, when performed by ethical hackers, verifies the probability of being hacked. In other words, the technique secures your accounts by ensuring that they cannot be hacked by cybercriminals. Changing your password is indeed the best way to ensure the security of your accounts. However, taking necessary...

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How to Hack Social Media Accounts

Hacking into social media accounts is popular, as it requires very little technical skill. The method does not usually don’t refer to high-end hacking, i.e., creating backdoors or injecting malicious code. These platforms witness more of a psychological attack. This form of attack is generally known as social...

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5 Must-have components for every Business Continuity Plan in a Coronavirus World

Businesses have had a rough start to the beginning of the new year, 2020, and new decade. From COVID-19 to Puerto Rican earthquakes, from volcanic eruptions in Alaska to powerful tornadoes of Tennessee, enterprises have faced several challenges. During such unanticipated situations, organizations need a contingency plan to...

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How to Write a Vulnerability Assessment Report

Cybersecurity is an ever-expanding industry with specialized domains. At times, it challenges seasoned security professionals while identifying vulnerabilities. The report carries information on the network, system, and application vulnerabilities. If one is not into penetration testing, then it gets tough to decode a vulnerability assessment report. The vulnerability...

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Checking Your VPN for Data Leaks

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It’s hard to travel far online without running into an article or advertisement for a virtual private network (VPN). As internet security concerns have grown, so has the demand for tools and services to fight back against hackers and their malware attacks. While coming up with hard numbers...

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How to Build a Strategic Business Continuity Plan beyond COVID-19

After the rapid spread of COVID–19, arguably, every organization around the world shifted its primary priorities dramatically. As a result, several concerns surfaced, such as disruption in the workforce, daily business operations, and supply chain. A recent report on “business responses to the COVID–19 outbreak” suggests, 51% of...

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5 Emerging cyber threats to watch in 2020

Throughout 2019, ransomware continued making headlines and it is highly likely that this trend will continue in the coming year. Here are some popular emerging cyber threats for 2020: Cybersecurity threats of higher-order Earlier, “top threats” were based on the perspective of targets. For example, ‘ransomware’ or ‘AI...

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3 Challenges to SAP Penetration Testing

The security of SAP is a balancing act involving processes, controls, and tools to restrict users’ access within the SAP landscape. This helps to ensure that the access to the functionality is legitimate. That means the users share restricted access based on their job needs. To avoid damage...

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Why, When, and How Often Should You Conduct a Penetration Test

Penetration testing (pen testing) is a simulation of possible cyberattacks performed by penetration testers (pen testers) with no malicious intention. The main objective of pen testing is to examine the security defenses of the IT infrastructure. Pen testing is performed to find exploitable vulnerable activity or content in...

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5 Penetration Testing Methodologies and Standards for Better ROI

The results of the penetration tests differ according to the standards and methodologies they leverage. While organizations are looking to secure their IT infrastructure and fix vulnerabilities, they are also looking for the latest, relevant, and most popular penetration tools and methodologies to fight the new types of...

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4 Reliable Vulnerability Assessment Tools to Protect Your Security Infrastructure

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Organizations with information assets are vulnerable to multiple forms of cyber threats. These potential threats need to be identified by the security professionals before they could harm the computer systems, applications, software, and other network interfaces of the firm. The team starts with the classification of the threats...

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