Attack Surface Management

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Why is Cybersecurity Important?
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Abi Tyas Tunggal
Abi Tyas Tunggal
December 8, 2021
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Check your Amazon S3 permissions. Someone will.
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Check your Amazon S3 permissions. Someone 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.
Abi Tyas Tunggal
Abi Tyas Tunggal
January 13, 2022
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What is Network Security?
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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
Abi Tyas Tunggal
Abi Tyas Tunggal
January 13, 2022
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How to Secure Apache Tomcat 8 in 15 Steps
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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.
Abi Tyas Tunggal
Abi Tyas Tunggal
January 11, 2022
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S3 Security Is Flawed By Design
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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.
Kaushik Sen
Kaushik Sen
January 13, 2022
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How to Secure Your Windows Environment: Top 10 Ways
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How to Secure Your Windows Environment: Top 10 Ways

Learn more about the basic elements to bolstering your Windows environment against cyber attackers.
UpGuard Team
UpGuard Team
August 23, 2021
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Don’t Use Production Data In Your Test Environment: The Impact Of Leaked Test Credentials
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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.
Kaushik Sen
Kaushik Sen
August 23, 2021
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What is HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security)?
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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.
Abi Tyas Tunggal
Abi Tyas Tunggal
August 24, 2021
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Carbon Black vs CrowdStrike
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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.
Abi Tyas Tunggal
Abi Tyas Tunggal
November 9, 2021
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DNSSEC: What Is It and Why Is It Important?
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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.
Abi Tyas Tunggal
Abi Tyas Tunggal
October 11, 2021
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What is an Incident Response Plan?
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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.
Abi Tyas Tunggal
Abi Tyas Tunggal
November 9, 2021
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What are Security Ratings?
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What are Security Ratings?

This is a complete guide to security ratings and common usecases. Learn why security and risk management teams have adopted security ratings in this post.
Abi Tyas Tunggal
Abi Tyas Tunggal
October 18, 2021
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Top 10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Checks
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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.
UpGuard Team
UpGuard Team
August 23, 2021
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How to Improve MySQL Security: Top 11 Ways
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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.
UpGuard Team
UpGuard Team
August 25, 2021
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What is Spear Phishing?
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What is Spear Phishing?

Spear phishing is an email spoofing and phishing attack targeting a specific organization or individual.
Abi Tyas Tunggal
Abi Tyas Tunggal
August 25, 2021
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What is an SSL Certificate?
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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.
Abi Tyas Tunggal
Abi Tyas Tunggal
December 20, 2021
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What is a Security Posture and How Can You Evaluate It?
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What is a Security Posture and How Can You Evaluate It?

An organization's security posture is the collective security status of all software, hardware, services, networks, vendors and service providers.
Abi Tyas Tunggal
Abi Tyas Tunggal
August 22, 2021
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