What is Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance?

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Governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) are majorly concerned with structuring risk management for organizations. Governance and risk management is a structured approach that helps you align IT tasks with corporate goals, mitigate risks efficiently, and stay up to speed with compliance.Let’s breakdown each concept for better understanding:GovernanceThis...

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Does Your IT Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Pass the Test?

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Regardless of the size of your business, regular data backups and recovery are important so you can formulate an effective IT business continuity plan (BCP) that minimizes downtime. Your organization cannot afford to overlook data backup, data recovery, and systems recovery in its business continuity and disaster recovery...

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3 Steps to Ensure Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM)

Creating an ideal Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) approach is crucial. The use of third parties is not a new concept. Almost every organization uses one third party tool or the other and third-parties seem like the most vulnerable links in an organization’s security policy.Third-parties are a crucial and...

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2 Popular Cyber Threat Intelligence Feeds and Sources

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Threat intelligence feeds are an actionable threat data associated with indicators or artifacts gathered from third-party vendors to learn from the access and visibility of other organizations to improve your own cybersecurity threat awareness and response. Threat intelligence feeds and sources must be applied alongside your technical controls,...

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What is SSH port forwarding?

SSH port forwarding or SSH tunneling is the process by which a TCP/IP connection, which would be otherwise insecure, is tunneled inside a secure SSH tunnel. This process protects the tunneled connection from network attacks. This process can also be called TCP/IP connection tunneling.SSH is an extensively applied...

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Is a career in network security a good choice?

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No matter an organization’s size and nature, they need a security expert in their team. This is because cyberattacks are increasing every day, and it is predicted that cybersecurity will cost the world US$6 trillion by 2021, indicating that a career in network security is a hot commodity....

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What is IT Disaster Recovery?

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IT Disaster Recovery is the application of policies, tools and methodology to resume normal operations following a natural or human-induced disaster by regaining access to data, software applications, hardware devices, networks and connectivity. Disaster recovery plan focus on IT systems that support the business-critical functions.Cyber Disaster Recovery PlanDisaster...

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9 Rules to Help You Build Your Threat Intelligence Program

A threat intelligence program can be a great asset to a modern organization. This is because it will help you design a reliable way to implement the threat intelligence data set you to accumulate, so you can speedily recognize and efficiently respond to growing threats. Introducing an in-house...

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Canada Now Most Phished Country: What You Need to Know

It seems that criminals using phishing tactics have found a new hotbed – Canada! RSA’s Fraud Quarterly report states that virtually 70 percent of fraud phishing attacks are targeted at Canadians. Although several surveys have demonstrated that phishing in Canada is increasing, most experts are unsure of why...

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