Attack Surface Management
What is an SSL Certificate?
An SSL certificate (or TLS certificate) is a digital certificate that binds a cryptographic key to your organization's details.
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Abi Tyas Tunggal
July 6, 2025
How to Improve MySQL Security: Top 11 Ways
Learn more about these 11 ways to harden the world's most popular open source database against cyber attackers.
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UpGuard Team
November 18, 2024
Top 10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Checks
Learn more about these 10 critical security checks for hardening your RHEL 5 servers against cyber attacks.
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UpGuard Team
November 18, 2024
What are Security Ratings? Cybersecurity Risk Scoring Explained
This is a complete guide to security ratings and common use cases. Learn why security and risk management teams have adopted security ratings in this post.
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Abi Tyas Tunggal
December 10, 2025
What is an Incident Response Plan?
An incident response plan is a set of written instructions that outline your organization's response to data breaches, data leaks, and cyber attacks.
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Abi Tyas Tunggal
July 3, 2025
DNSSEC: What Is It and Why Is It Important?
The DNSSEC is a set of IETF specifications for securing certain kinds of information provided by the DNS as used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
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Abi Tyas Tunggal
July 3, 2025
Carbon Black vs CrowdStrike
How does Carbon Black's endpoint security platform match up against CrowdStrike's SaaS-based solution for endpoint protection? Read more to find out.
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Abi Tyas Tunggal
November 18, 2024
What is HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security)?
This is a complete overview of the HTTP Strict Transport Security. Learn about what HSTS is and why it is important in this in-depth post.
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Abi Tyas Tunggal
January 2, 2025
Don’t Use Production Data In Your Test Environment: The Impact Of Leaked Test Credentials
Read about why your third-party vendors and test environments should not contain production data, and how to protect your customers by taking a few steps.
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Kaushik Sen
January 8, 2025
How to Secure Your Windows Environment: Top 10 Ways
Learn more about the basic elements to bolstering your Windows environment against cyber attackers.
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UpGuard Team
November 18, 2024
S3 Security Is Flawed By Design
There are two design flaws that cause most S3 data breaches. Read why we AWS should separate S3 into two products that clearly separate private and public.
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Kaushik Sen
January 9, 2025
How to Secure Apache Tomcat 8 in 15 Steps
A practical guide to hardening and securing your Apache Tomcat Server with best practices to ensure your server is more secure than the default.
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Abi Tyas Tunggal
January 8, 2025
What is Network Security?
Network security is the process of using physical and software security solutions to protect the underlying network infrastructure from unauthorized access
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Abi Tyas Tunggal
July 3, 2025
Check your Amazon S3 permissions or Someone Else will.
Companies regularly host sensitive data on Amazon's S3. Sometimes they forget to close it off to the internet. Here's a guide to make sure you don't.
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Abi Tyas Tunggal
June 29, 2025
What is a Network Security Assessment?
This is a complete overview of network security assessments. Learn how to run a network security assessment in this in-depth post.
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Abi Tyas Tunggal
July 3, 2025
What is The Difference Between Vulnerabilities and Misconfigurations?
What are misconfigurations? Truth be told vulnerabilities are not the source of most exploits, misconfigurations are.
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Abi Tyas Tunggal
November 18, 2024
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