Articles Tagged with ''pandemic''

travel-enews

Pandemic border management: An inside look

Kent Webber
Kent Webber
November 10, 2020
State and federal governments are enacting emergency rules, health standards, and legislation to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Canada rolled out new border measures in October. Vermont officials now require residents and non-residents coming from outside the select states, or counties within select states, to quarantine for 14 days. In Illinois, the governor declared all counties a disaster area. It’s a common occurrence during a public health emergency — but it makes planning travel a complex task. 
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email security

Email security best practices for a remote human perimeter

- DJ Sampath
DJ Sampath
November 5, 2020
Cybercriminals quickly weaved the pandemic into their email scams earlier this year, and more recently impersonated the IRS by pretending to share updates about COVID tax relief in an attempt to steal sensitive tax information. In mid-April, Google’s Threat Analysis Group reported that they detected 18 million COVID-19 themed malware and phishing emails per day. And that’s without including all the email impersonation, invoice fraud, and phishing attacks that have nothing to do with COVID, but are dangerous nonetheless. In this article, I will provide some tips to help individuals and organizations communicate more securely over email.
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NCSAM

The future of connected devices

Reflecting on NCSAM: How businesses should be implementing lessons learned from the month in their ongoing cyber strategy
Will Bass
Will Bass
November 4, 2020
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has taken work out of the office and into the home for most people. This means workers are using their home networks and personal devices to connect to the office more than ever before. This shift in work patterns brings with it new network connectivity and security challenges for IT teams to tackle.
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Jewish community

Alertness is an evergreen state of mind for the Jewish community

Richard Priem
October 28, 2020
As Jewish families around the world prepared for the High Holidays last month, the most significant days of the Jewish calendar, synagogues prepared to facilitate services under unprecedented circumstances due to the coronavirus pandemic. For those of us that work on providing security for the Jewish community, it would become yet another time of heightened vigilance.
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5 mins with

5 minutes with Carolyn Crandall – Detecting and preventing insider threat attacks

Maria Henriquez
October 23, 2020

Defending against insider threats is one of the biggest challenges an organization can face, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only made detection more challenging as remote employees continue to use virtual private networks (VPNs) to access sensitive company files and information. Here, we talk to Carolyn Crandall, Chief Deception Officer at Attivo Networks, to discuss how security teams can use deception technology to detect and prevent insider threat attacks. 


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WFH? Digital security during a pandemic

harding bush
Harding Bush
October 15, 2020
Criminals are leveraging elevated interest in COVID-19 to send emails to unsuspecting people to infect computers with ransomware, malware or other computer viruses. And why not? According to Forbes, the COVID-19 crisis has turned the U.S. workforce into a work-from-home army, giving cybercriminals new, less secure, access points for cyber viruses and phishing attacks, revealing vulnerabilities in cybersecurity strategies for the coronavirus crisis. And since there’s a tremendous curiosity for coronavirus information — people are more likely to click without checking the credibility of the source.
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Improving situational awareness via video content analytics is the key to business safety and compliance for COVID-19

Driving business resilience and risk management
Stephanie Weagle
Stephanie Weagle
October 15, 2020

One thing has become clear; to abide by the “new normal” restrictions, organizations need to be constantly aware of their environments’ compliance, in real-time. To do that, they need to improve their security and situational awareness, so they can quickly assess evolving situations and respond when violations occur.


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