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Cyber Minds

You're reading from   Cyber Minds Insights on cybersecurity across the cloud, data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and IoT to keep you cyber safe

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
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ISBN-13 9781789807004
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shira Rubinoff Shira Rubinoff
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Integrating Humans and Technology – Four Steps to Cyber Hygiene 2. How Risky Behavior Leads to Data Breaches FREE CHAPTER 3. Blockchain – The Unwritten Chapter on Cybersecurity 4. Cybersecurity in the Cloud – What You Need to Know 5. The World's Biggest Data Breaches – Proactive and Reactive Approaches 6. Trends in Cybersecurity 7. Staying Cybersecure in the IoT Revolution 8. Cyberwars – Bringing Military Lessons to Modern Information Security 9. Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) be Trusted to Run Cybersecurity? 10. Conclusion 11. Other Books You May Enjoy
12. Index

Up-to-date security

As we've discussed, sometimes cybersecurity professionals glaze over the basics and run out-of-date, unsupported OSs as a matter of convenience. This is a common phenomenon because many organizations are already large and spread out or are growing so rapidly that those in charge have trouble keeping track of every single device.  It's not always easy, but running an updated OS is essential. Having the right, forward-looking processes in place to identify the next necessary update and prepare for it as far ahead of time as possible is essential. Bad actors keep their technology up to date and wait eagerly for the next update; your organization needs to be just as eager for the next opportunity to add to their security.

Patching is a task that can be cumbersome, expensive, and time consuming. That's why it's critical for an organization to have the right process—a designated group of people that handle patching. This key group of...

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