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Cyber Security Posture in 2024: All You Need to Know

Cyber Security Posture in 2024: All You Need to Know

Blog  Cyber security posture refers to an organization's overall defensive stance against cyber threats, encompassing its policies, practices, and technologies designed to protect digital assets and sensitive information from unauthorized access, theft, or...

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GhostWatch Managed Security: Vigilance Redefined

GhostWatch Managed Security: Vigilance Redefined

Blog  In today's digital era, cybersecurity and compliance have taken center stage. The need for robust security measures to protect against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats has grown exponentially as the world becomes more interconnected. Large and...

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NIST CSF 2.0: What’s New

NIST CSF 2.0: What’s New

Blog  Established in 2014, the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF) is a vital tool in the field of cybersecurity. The framework's effectiveness in addressing these risks is well recognized, with many organizations...

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Looking Back: Key Cybersecurity Lessons from 2023

Looking Back: Key Cybersecurity Lessons from 2023

Blog  As we bid farewell to 2023, it's clear that the year has been a formative one in the realm of cybersecurity. The landscape has never been more complex because of increased sophisticated cyber threats and the continued exploitation of human...

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Cybersecurity in Accounting: The Shield for Client Data

Cybersecurity in Accounting: The Shield for Client Data

Blog  As custodians of sensitive financial information, accounting firms increasingly find themselves in the crosshairs of cybercriminals. Therefore, a robust cybersecurity framework is not just a technical necessity but also a business imperative.  With the...

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Log4j Attack Surface Remains Massive

Log4j Attack Surface Remains Massive

Four months ago, the remote code execution hole exposed in the Apache Log4j logging tool still had a wide range of potential victims. Using the Shodan search engine, Rezilion discovered more than 90,000 Internet-exposed servers with a vulnerable version of the...

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Top Managed Security Services Company 2021

Top Managed Security Services Company 2021

Even after more than a year into the pandemic, the business world is still struggling to address the cybersecurity challenges that it has introduced. As organizations are rapidly bolstering their digital transformation efforts to seamlessly run their...

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Virtual CISO: All You Need to Know

Virtual CISO: All You Need to Know

Security and protection from external threats have become even more important than ever. The growing number of cyberattacks indicates that even companies that spend huge amounts of money on their security, cannot be 100% sure that their data is safe. However, not all...

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Cybersecurity Consulting Services

Cybersecurity Consulting Services

Blog  What is Network Penetration Testing? Network Penetration Testing is a type of service performed by a penetration testing network. It is when a security organization takes advantage of a series of networking penetration testing tools and attempts to...

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SIEM Log Management and Managed SIEM Service

SIEM Log Management and Managed SIEM Service

TrustNet Managed SIEM Detecting intrusions and other abnormal security events that impact your networks is the function of a group of integrated tools that monitor your applications, systems, and perimeter to ferret out potential intrusions or other threats from...

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Cybersecurity Monitoring Service

Cybersecurity Monitoring Service

TrustNet Cyber Security Monitoring Services Shielding your customers' sensitive data and the network ecosystems where it resides must be one of your company's highest priorities. In an age when sensitive information can be compromised due to careless end-user...

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Red vs. Blue Team Security

Red vs. Blue Team Security

Blog  Hackers and other cybercriminals are pulling out all the stops, mounting a stunning array of increasingly sophisticated attacks on businesses of all sizes and industries. Any enterprise that stores, transmits, or otherwise handles data of any kind,...

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Vulnerability Management Program

Vulnerability Management Program

Today’s multi-layered information systems make it possible for companies like yours to store, manage, and transmit data like never before. However, it is that very complexity that potentially leaves your security architecture vulnerable to threats. User error,...

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Next Generation Endpoint Security

Next Generation Endpoint Security

Storing, transmitting, and managing data is one of the primary support tasks that many organizations perform in today’s digital corporate landscape. Unfortunately, criminals are all too aware of this fact and are increasingly developing new strategies to break into,...

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SOC for Cybersecurity

SOC for Cybersecurity

Blog  Managing customer data and exchanging digital information on a global level provides your organization with both unparalleled flexibility and versatility. However, opening up your resources and assets to the outside world also makes your cyber...

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Compliance vs Security

Compliance vs Security

An organization must constantly be on guard against external network attacks, threats from its own staff and third-party vendors and even fatal flaws in their own technology that can place data and systems at risk. In order to address this constantly evolving...

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Cyber Threat Hunting

Cyber Threat Hunting

Your company’s network is a complex environment managed by many moving parts. That makes detecting intruders a constant challenge. The truth is that cyber attackers and malware can lurk undetected in your system for days, weeks or months stealing credentials, doing...

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Security Patch Management Best Practices

Security Patch Management Best Practices

One indisputable fact about today’s software and firmware is that change is inevitable. When vulnerabilities or bugs are discovered or an upgrade is necessary because of evolving technology, a patch is released. Patch management security involves ensuring that all...

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Data Security Strategy

Data Security Strategy

When you are on the front lines charged with the critical duty of ensuring that your company’s information and systems are as protected as possible from risk, your data security strategy needs to be complex and multi-layered. Threats can come in numerous forms:...

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Cyber Security Checklist

Cyber Security Checklist

Blog  The degree to which your network and data are safeguarded from attacks and threats depends on the strength of your cyber security infrastructure. As the number and level of attacks grows each year, it becomes more important to defend against and...

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FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool

FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) is a governmental body made up of five banking regulators. Its objective is to promote uniformity in the supervision of financial institutions. To that end, it provides organizations with a FFIEC...

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Red Flags Rule Compliance Tips

Identity theft takes a massive toll on millions of Americans each year. It also has a devastating financial effect on the merchants and credit organizations who constantly struggle to avoid breaches and pay the costs involved in dealing with the aftermath of the...

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Massachusetts Data Security Laws

Massachusetts Data Security Laws

Regardless of where you do business in the United States, you already know that the security of your stored and transmitted private data is of paramount importance. However, individual states implement their own laws to ensure that this sensitive information is...

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Artificial Intelligence in Cyber security

Artificial Intelligence in Cyber security

Blog  Without artificial intelligence (AI), we would not have speech recognition technology such as Siri, search engines like Google or facial recognition capabilities. What’s more, financial institutions would not be able to prevent billions of dollars in...

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AWS Penetration Testing

AWS Penetration Testing

Blog  Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform supports a wide variety of business activities that include data storage, web application services, networking and code development. Unfortunately, it has recently become all too clear that these platforms can be...

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Information Security Program

Information Security Program

Any management or human resource professional knows that standards and practices can never be truly implemented and enforced unless and until they are thoroughly documented. As you might imagine, this maxim also holds true when it comes to protecting your network,...

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Security Maturity Model

There are two complementary objectives of any cybersecurity operation. Tools both automated and human must be in place to monitor network systems, scan for vulnerabilities and predict threats. Additionally, reaction measures must be available should your data come...

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Azure Penetration Testing

Azure Penetration Testing

Blog  Are you worried about the safety of your data in the cloud? Azure penetration testing is vital to securing apps on this giant platform.  What is Azure Penetration Testing?  Azure penetration testing is a specialized field where security experts...

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Data Center Security Best Practices

Organizations use physical data centers to house their data and critical applications. Modern data centers employ a virtualized infrastructure that supports business workloads, software applications and data in both a physical infrastructure and a cloud-based,...

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Benefits of Information Security

Benefits of Information Security

Protecting the privacy, confidentiality, availability and integrity of your sensitive data is critical. While it is all too easy to let your attention to information security lapse in favor of putting out immediate and visible business-related fires, procrastination...

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What is an MSSP

What is an MSSP

Blog  One of the most daunting challenges facing today’s businesses is protecting the security of the data they possess. For many, enlisting the assistance of a managed security services provider (MSSP) is the most cost-effective and efficient solution....

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IT Cost Reduction Strategies

IT Cost Reduction Strategies

Few modern businesses would be able to function without information technology. While eliminating it is neither practical nor desirable, there are ways to reduce IT cost without compromising the security or scope of your systems. By employing a suite of cost cutting...

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System Hardening Best Practices

System Hardening Best Practices

Blog  Threat actors are constantly using increasingly sophisticated tools and techniques to take advantage of any weaknesses or loopholes in your cyber security system to gain access. Once they succeed, the damage to your network and the valuable data it...

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TrustNet named Top 10 Managed Security Service Providers

TrustNet named Top 10 Managed Security Service Providers

“Threat intelligence is an integral facet of our offering as it provides the context, methods, indicators, and impact assessment on existing and emerging threats” Managing threats in today's information age is more of a necessity than a choice for organizations as...

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Insider Threats

When you think about your company’s digital protection strategy, the first threats that come to mind might involve those stemming from external sources. Malicious unknown perpetrators, nation-states with self-serving agendas and other types of cyber criminals are the...

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Cyber Incident Response Plan and Process

Putting procedures in place to monitor for and detect threats is a critical component of any organization’s security infrastructure. However, these measures will amount to nothing if your company does not have a comprehensive cybersecurity incident response plan in...

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TTP Cyber Security

TTP Cyber Security

Blog  The methods and strategies that criminals use when planning and executing an attack on a company's network and the data it stores are intricate and complex. That's because corporations spend millions of dollars on cybersecurity in an attempt to repel...

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Important Cyber Security Metrics to Track

Important Cyber Security Metrics to Track

Blog  When it comes to protecting the safety and integrity of your physical infrastructure and the digital data your company stores, you need to put a complex system of security and reporting measures into place. Just as important, you must assemble human,...

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Cyber Security Analysis

Penetration into a company’s network is a complex undertaking. Today’s sophisticated threat actors mount a multi-pronged offensive that uses information about your organization, the activities and behaviors of your staff and intelligence about your technology and...

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Cybersecurity Strategy

In today’s business world, the innovations of bad actors are constantly evolving as they devise new ways to breach defenses, and the potential for human error remains high. Add to that the increasing number of devices connected to your network, and it becomes...

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Vulnerability Assessment Methodology

Vulnerability Assessment Methodology

Blog  Criminals prowl on the perimeter of your network, seeking weaknesses in your systems and networks that will make illegal entry monitoring and data theft possible. Just as homeowners install alarm systems to protect their belongings, you and your...

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Cybersecurity vs Information Security

Cybersecurity vs Information Security

It is easy to become lost in a sea of terms when it comes to protecting your company’s data. A particularly relevant case in point is cybersecurity vs information security. Although they sound similar, there are definitely factors that set these two apart from each...

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Cost of Data Breach

Cost of Data Breach

No two words inspire a deeper feeling of dread in CEOs and CFOs than “data breach.” Most executives are queasily familiar with the glaring news headlines detailing the catastrophic consequences that corporations such as Target, Home Depot, Neiman Marcus and even the...

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Attack Vectors in Cybersecurity

Attack Vectors in Cybersecurity

Blog  Think of hackers and other cyber criminals as a hoard of barbarians doing all they can to bypass even the most robust of your network safeguards. The way they do it is by taking advantage of what is known as cyber attack vectors, weaknesses in your...

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What is a Cyber Security Posture

What is a Cyber Security Posture

Blog  Security is not simply a firewall or set of user authentication policies that cover small parts of your organization. In fact, you should think of your cyber security posture as a complete whole that pertains to the protection status of your networks,...

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Man-in-the-middle Attacks

Man-in-the-middle Attacks

Many threats lurk right outside your network just waiting to exploit even the tiniest weakness or vulnerability. Of all of them, the man in the middle attack (mitm) is one of the worst. Just what is man in the middle attack, and what steps can you take to prevent it...

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Cybersecurity Compliance Audit Best Practices

Cybersecurity Compliance Audit Best Practices

Blog  No longer is a cyber attack a rare phenomenon in the world we live in. Nowadays, there is a very good chance that one will affect your company. In recent years, protecting the security of your digital perimeter has become a necessity since the...

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How to Build an Incident Response Team

How to Build an Incident Response Team

Blog  Since safeguarding the integrity of your network and other systems is of paramount importance to companies of all sizes, you have most likely implemented measures such as firewall software and hardware that are designed to protect your key assets from...

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The FUD Factor

The FUD Factor

Recently I had the opportunity to lead a panel at the Global CISO Forum in Atlanta, GA. Our panel topic was a discussion on how to avoid FUD in selling security. FUD is an acronym for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. The topic focused on CISO’s “selling” security to the...

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