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Understanding DORA compliance: Key steps to prepare your organization

Understand DORA compliance and get a clear DORA requirements summary with key compliance areas, practical steps, and essential guidelines to strengthen your organization's digital resilience.

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18.3.2025

ISMS implementation: comparison of documents, wikis, ISMS tools and GRC

There are a few different approaches to building an ISMS. In this post, we’ll compare these different methods, helping you understand which might be the best fit for your organization’s security management needs.

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6.3.2025

What is Statement of Applicability (SoA) in ISO 27001?

In this blog, we'll cover the main purpose and benefits of a well-working Statement of Applicability document. We'll also explain why SoA is important, and 4 key roles it can play in information security work.

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4.3.2025

Why is ISO 27001 compliance now more important than ever?

Year after year, ISO 27001 standard has remained one of the gold standards for information security. The global standard has remained relevant, but where did ISO 27001 originate? And why is it's popularity just going up?

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27.2.2025

10 most common non-conformities in ISO 27001 audits

Audits and non-conformities drive organizations toward continuous improvement. But before your first ISO 27001 certification, it's good to be aware of some most common non-conformities, so you can avoid these in your certification audit.

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18.2.2025

Got an ISO 27001 audit interview request - what should I expect?

In this blog, we will talk about the importance of employee participation in the audit interview process, why auditors value employee insights, and look into possible questions asked in an ISO 27001 interview.

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13.2.2025

ISO 27001 compliance and certification checklist

Looking to ensure you fill ISO 27001 requirements? This checklist will present clearly ordered key steps that guide your organization in building an ISMS and getting compliant with the ISO 27001 standard.

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6.2.2025

Most important documents in ISO 27001 certification audit

The ISO 27001 standard does specifically define some key documents, which need to be gathered together and be easily shareable e.g. for the auditor. In this blog, we'll present these most important documents for an ISO 27001 certification audit.

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30.1.2025

Is remote work the new normal?

As COVID-19 continues to spread, remote work is no longer an experiment, but a requirement in many nations. While it represents a huge change, the results of a research conducted by OnePoll and Citrix, reveal that a majority of employees around the world are adapting to working from home and believe it will become the new normal for the way work gets done. “Remote work is not business as usual. It represents a totally new … More → The post Is remote work the new normal? appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
CyberNow

Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors

Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors, a new report by VMware Carbon Black released at RSA Conference 2020 has revealed. The report uncovers the top attack tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) seen over the last year and provides specific guidance on ransomware, commodity malware, wipers, access mining and destructive attacks. Among some of the key findings from the report: Defense evasion behavior was seen in more than 90 percent of the 2,000 samples they … More → The post Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
Malware

Hackers are actively exploiting zero-days in several WordPress plugins

There's quite the WordPress p0wnage going on right now.

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15.5.2020
Unpatched Vulnerabilities

The “Great Cannon” has been deployed again

SummaryThe Great Cannon is a distributed denial of service tool (“DDoS”) that operates by injecting malicious Javascript into pages served from behind the Great Firewall. These scripts, potentially served to millions of users across the internet, hijack the users’ connections to make multiple requests against the targeted site.

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15.5.2020
Denial-of-Service Attacks

What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions?

Human beings are poor judges of risk. For example, we perceive the risk of air travel to be higher than it actually is after a fatal aviation-related accident happens. We also tend to dismiss risks just because we don’t see a tangible negative impact right away. This is, for example, what prevents many from making dental hygiene a priority: we all know dental hygiene is critical to our health and a relatively easy “investment”, but … More → The post What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions? appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
Employee Negligence

Ako Ransomware Uses Spam to Infect Its Victims

It has been discovered that the network-targeting Ako ransomware is being distributed through malicious spam attachments that pretend to be a requested agreement. Last week we reported on the Ako Ransomware and how it was targeting companies with the intent to encrypt their entire network. ID Ransomware Submissions David Pickett, a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at AppRiver, reached out to BleepingComputer yesterday to tell us that his company saw the Ako ransomware being distributed through spam email. Spam email distributing the Ako Ransomware Attached to these emails is a password-protected zip file named agreement.zip with the password '2020' being given in the email. Agreement.zip Archive As shown by this report from JoeSandbox, when Ako is executed it will encrypt the victim's files and leave them with a ransom note named ako-readme.txt. Ako Ransom Note As spam is being used to spread the Ako Ransomware, everyone must be is trained on how to properly identify malicious email and not open any attachments without first confirming who and why they were sent.

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15.5.2020
Ransomware

Oscar Nominated Movies Featured in Phishing, Malware Attacks

Attackers are exploiting the hype surrounding this year's Oscar Best Picture nominated movies to infect fans with malware and to bait them to phishing websites designed to steal sensitive info such as credit card details and personal information. [...]

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15.5.2020
Phishing

Why You Should Be Prepared to Fight Against Advanced Persistent Threats

APTs may already be targeting your organization. You need to formulate comprehensive cybersecurity strategies, implement robust and stringent security measures, and test your defenses to ensure that you’re protected.

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15.5.2020
CyberNow

How Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects your website

By Waqas Why a Web application firewall is a vital tool to keep websites safe from cyber attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects your website

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15.5.2020
Unpatched Vulnerabilities