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DevSecOps for Startups: Building Cybersecurity into Your Product From the Beginning
If you’re leading a startup, you should prioritize security from the beginning. You want to prevent bad actors from stealing your intellectual property and don't want to turn down business opportunities because you can’t comply with regulations or meet security standards. The fastest and most efficient way to build security into your product is DevSecOps.
3 Questions Every Investor Should Ask About Security Before Giving Money to a Startup
Investing in startups is a risk. The earlier the stage, the more the investment is about promises rather than products, to say nothing of proven business models. Yet startups are worth the investment because funding a successful one can mean a huge payoff. The problem is that a significant obstacle often lurks in these investments: poor security.
The 4 Questions You Need To Ask When Purchasing Cybersecurity Professional Services
A professional services engagement can be critical for companies looking to successfully implement cybersecurity. From solutions to vendors, new cybersecurity solutions contain a lot of complexity and variables, and many IT teams don’t have the time or capacity to handle them entirely themselves. That makes a professional services engagement a necessary investment, which means you need to ask firms the right questions to ensure everything goes smoothly and you maximize your value.
6 Creative Ways to Easily Increase Password Security
When it comes to cybersecurity, everyday tips for staying safe can seem complicated and unnecessary. How else do we explain why so many online users continue to resist best practices for creating strong passwords, even though it sets them up to be victims of data breaches and identity theft?
Stop Hoarding Data Unless It Makes Sense: Tips for Small Businesses
When running a small business, you have many reasons to maintain the personal data of your customers, employees, and other entities with whom you interact. Selling, marketing, financials, and compliance all require having data — and, in some cases, hoarding it. But when does your hoarding become an issue?
5 Reasons Your Startup Needs to Include Cybersecurity From the Beginning
Starting your own company may be one of the most exciting things you ever do. There’s nothing like building a business from scratch simply because you have a fantastic idea and the skills, team, and determination to pull it off. So imagine you’re living your best entrepreneurial dream, and suddenly, it all comes crashing down.
Operational Technology Security: The Silent Guardian of Industry
Events at the end of 2023 have underscored the importance of operational technology (OT) security – a series of cyber attacks, suspected to be the work of an Iranian government-linked group, targeted US water facilities using Israeli-made technology.
Protecting Your Intellectual Property From Cyberattacks: An Overview
Most businesses have something unique, like a product, process, innovation, code, ingredient, recipe, or idea. It’s their “special sauce” or “better mouse trap.” It sets them apart from the competition and will help them change or disrupt the world (hopefully for the good). It’s called “intellectual property,” and protecting it from bad cyber actors is critical.
How to Guard Against Ransomware on a Budget
Ransomware is malware that a bad cyber actor installs on your computer systems, encrypting essential files to hold your business hostage in exchange for money. Learn how to combat it!
Top 3 Cybersecurity Concerns For E-commerce Businesses During Online Shopping Season
The holiday season is here, which means time with friends and family, overpriced pumpkin-spiced lattes, and online shopping! If you’re an e-commerce vendor, what can put a wrinkle in your plans for online shopping domination? Two words: bad actors… or economic slowdown… or angry Swifties. But we at decodingCyber can’t help with the last two, but we can help with bad actors.
How To Fix an Underperforming Cybersecurity Team
Cybersecurity teams are critical for helping organizations protect their network and get ahead of cyberattacks. They’re a smart way to organize cyber defenses and a strategic, efficient way of pooling resources. But cybersecurity teams can underperform as well, and if that’s the case, the team might be harming your business more than helping it.
A Cyberween Special: The Scariest Things about a Data Breach for an SMB
A data breach can devastate any business but significantly damage a small and midsize business (SMB). SMBs often have fewer resources to deal with a data breach and have less cybersecurity expertise than larger organizations. The last thing you want to deal with on Cyberween is a data breach!
5 Myths about Starting a Cybersecurity Career
Cybersecurity is a rapidly growing field with excellent career prospects. There are two main reasons. First, the cybersecurity market is increasing and is forecast to reach a global volume of $273.6 billion by 2028 (CAGR of 10.48%). Second, the cybersecurity skills shortage persists. With that in mind, let’s bust the five myths about starting a career in cybersecurity.
Remote Browser Isolation: Preventing Malicious Web Code from Entering Your Network
Remote browser isolation, or RBI, is a technology that uses logical or physical barriers to separate non-trusted web browsing from the corporate network.
5 Critical Cyber Risks that Can Threaten Business Profits
In today’s interconnected world, business leaders must confront the pervasive and detrimental risk of cyberattacks and data breaches. Yet the consequences of cyber incidents extend beyond compromising sensitive information — they can severely impact a company’s profitability.
5 Steps to Maximize AI in Business Projects: Avoiding Security and Regulatory Headaches
Companies across the globe have jumped on the artificial intelligence (AI) bandwagon and started developing products that incorporate AI or use AI tools to empower their current workforce.
Vulnerability Management: 5 Steps To Protect Your Business
In the most simplistic terms, vulnerability management is an element of cybersecurity that involves finding and remediating weaknesses in your computer systems to minimize ways hackers can negatively impact your business.
Incident Response Plan: How to Prepare for the Worst and Protect Your Business
Imagine learning that you’ve just experienced a cyber incident. A cyber incident might be one of your software vendors telling you they found your password on the dark web. Perhaps you log onto your computer only to see a ransomware message. Maybe you can’t log onto your computer — and no one at your company can. What should you do?
In the Crosshairs: 8 Ways to Engage Cybercriminals to Win the Cyber War
Many companies do cybersecurity wrong. They play defense with little to no thought of offense, allowing their weaknesses and vulnerabilities to be the focal point of their cyber strategy. Instead, they should build a program to engage the cybercriminal, allowing their strengths and resiliencies to guide their cyber strategy and win the cyber war.
In the Crosshairs: 4 Tips for Lessening the Likelihood of a Cyberattack
The vast majority of businesses live with the ongoing threat of a cyberattack. They possess money and data, which cybercriminals want to steal. Therefore, these businesses should do everything in their power to lessen the likelihood that an attack will be successful. But what does that look like?
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