Dark Reading Daily -- December 23, 2019

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December 23, 2019

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6 Traits to Develop for Cybersecurity Success

Cultivate these half-dozen qualities and watch your career soar.

Ambiguity Around CCPA Will Lead to a Slow Start in 2020

But longer term, compliance to California's new privacy law represents an opportunity for companies to increase customer trust and market share.

New Orleans to Boost Cyber Insurance to $10M Post-Ransomware

Mayor LaToya Cantrell anticipates the recent cyberattack to exceed its current $3 million cyber insurance policy.

Research Team Demonstrates Perfect Secrecy Implementation

The technique is notable because it can be implemented using low-cost, standard hardware components.

F5 Pays $1 Billion for Shape

The acquisition adds fraud detection and prevention to the application delivery company's tool collection.

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Ransomware 'Crisis' in US Schools: More Than 1,000 Hit So Far in 2019 Meanwhile, the mayor of the city of New Orleans says no ransom money demands were made as her city struggles to recover from a major ransomware attack launched last week. Your First Month as a CISO: Forming an Information Security Program It's easy to get overwhelmed in your new position, but these tips and resources will help you get started. 5 Security Resolutions to Prevent a Ransomware Attack in 2020 Proactively consider tools to detect anomalous behavior, automatically remediate, and segment threats from moving across the network. MORE

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6 Traits to Develop for Cybersecurity Success

Cultivate these half-dozen qualities and watch your career soar.

How a Password-Free World Could Have Prevented the Biggest Breaches of 2019

If history has taught us anything, it's that hackers can (and will) compromise passwords. Innovation in authentication technology is poised to change that in the coming year.

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SIM Swapping Attacks: What They Are & How to Stop Them

Fraudsters with social engineering skills are hijacking cell phone SIM cards to access victims' bitcoin and social media accounts

Should I Have a Security Travel Policy to Protect Devices and Sensitive Data?

Mobile devices are lost or hacked while in transit far too frequently. Here are some steps to protect your business.

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[UC Security] How Analytics Addresses the Threats You Don't Know About
As unified communications (UC) adoption grows, so too do the bad actors who prey on vulnerabilities. The source of vulnerabilities stem from a lack of understanding risks and subsequent lack of best practices to address UC security threats. When a ...
Know Thyself: Cyber Threat Intelligence Gathering Inside Your Organization
In this webinar, learn about the tools that can help your internal threat intelligence gathering and how these efforts could help you detect attackers' lateral movement, disrupt ransomware and protect endpoint devices.

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