The latest News and Information on CyberSecurity for Applications, Services and Infrastructure, and related technologies.
Navigating compliance requirements can be complex because there are so many of them, and there is a good chance that at least one set of standards applies to you. Standards can be for specific sectors, like The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for healthcare, or may apply more generally to organizations across industries, like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Preparation prior to a breach is critical to reducing recovery time and costs.” (RSAConference) For 83% of companies, a cyber incident is just a matter of time (IBM). And when it does happen, it will cost the organization millions, coming in at a global average of $4.35 million per breach. The damage isn’t only financial, nor solely related to customer loyalty and brand equity.
By continuously monitoring network activity and assets, network monitoring plays a key role in identifying cybersecurity threats. The network monitoring process gathers important data that can be used in analytics or in conjunction with cybersecurity applications to rapidly identify and respond to threats.
In this post, we’re going to learn about the Ansible copy module. Before we look at the copy module specifically, let us first remind ourselves what Ansible is. You can install this open-source software on just one Linux machine. Then it can perform a lot of tasks on connected Linux machines without requiring Ansible installation on them. You can do tasks like copying files, fetching files, and a lot of other things all on connected machines, with a single command.
Authentication is the security process that verifies a user’s identity in order to grant access to their online account. It also functions as the gateway to your product. It’s a workflow you can’t compromise on without risking negative impacts on your users and your company. Fortunately, there are lots of authentication services that can do the heavy lifting for you. It’s important to understand what you can do in case of an authentication failure, when to do it, and why.
