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RE: WHAT SMALL BUSINESSES NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CYBERATTACKS IN 2021

in STEMGeeks3 years ago (edited)

Whenever there is an IT security breach, there have been some kind of vulnerability. It's important to fix vulnerabilities as fast as possible, and it's also important to consider "defence in depth" and make sure the risk of someone being able to abuse a "zero-day" vulnerability is low. Most people have an inbound firewall, but leaves the outbound firewall wide open - most automated attacks can easily be stopped by having a firewall that by default stops all outbound traffic.

I'm quite concerned about the Norwegian mentality nowadays, I read "we couldn't possibly defend ourself against this attack" when someone got unauthorized access to the parliament email system. Commenting on some local new site, I got attacked for "blaming the victim" (I wrote more about that in another post).

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Thanks for sharing your post Physical Security vs. IT Security. I loved it and sent you a tip since it was past the time for voting. I plan to share it on social media.

Like I said in my comment on your post, we as users, administrators, and managers of IT have to "own it". We have to stop thinking of IT security just in the terms of cybersecurity, just the technical 1's and 0's. We have to look at the physical, operational, and other flavors of security that can touch the tech and people around the tech.