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Best practices to prevent a password breach
Reading Time: 7 minutes Most employee passwords fail to follow even the simplest anti-theft precautions, such as creating passwords with a minimum of 12 characters. In a recent study of 15.2 billion passwords, only 2.2 billion were found to be unique.
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Best practices to prevent a password breach
Reading Time: 7 minutes Most employee passwords fail to follow even the simplest anti-theft precautions, such as creating passwords with a minimum of 12 characters. In a recent study of 15.2 billion passwords, only 2.2 billion were found to be unique.
Are my coins safe? Cybersecurity in cryptocurrencies
Reading Time: 10 minutes Cryptocurrencies have been a popular trading asset in recent years. But what are the possible security risks that come with this technology?
Why cybersecurity is important for business
Reading Time: 6 minutes Cybersecurity is, by nature, a negative asset. As with any protective measure, one of the biggest challenges is to measure the value (or return on investment, ROI) of cybersecurity. It is even more difficult to get stakeholders – customers, users, and decision-makers – in the company to understand its value.
Security breaches then and now
Reading Time: 10 minutes The increasing threat of security breaches mostly has to do with the increasing amount of information being stored. Although individuals are responsible for most data creation, 80% of all data is stored by enterprises.
Coding vs secure coding: 6 rules to live by
Reading Time: 7 minutes Security breaches can impact any organisation. Insecure coding practices may result in increased security risk, and put businesses in jeopardy. Click to read our post about 6 secure coding rules to live by!
Teaching security – Interview with Jonathan Meyers, Head of Cybersecurity, Cybrary
Reading Time: 6 minutes What are the best ways to teach cybersecurity to teams and individuals? How can you motivate developers to improve their security skills? We asked Jonathan Meyers, Head of Cybersecurity at Cybrary.
Max out your developers’ potential with relevant security training
Reading Time: 6 minutes Even though security has started to become a growing concern, the immense pressure to ship applications on time means that instead of being an integral part of the development process, for most teams it’s still an afterthought.
How I got started with IT security – Gábor Pék, CTO at Avatao
Reading Time: 9 minutes How do you start learning IT security? What’s the difference between the offensive and the defensive way?
Our CTO, Gábor, shares how he got involved in the world of cybersecurity and gives you some useful tips.
Secure coding training for PCI DSS compliance
Reading Time: 7 minutes In payment transactions, security is critical, and any weakness does not only compromise the data, but can result in credit card fraud that causes huge losses for the stakeholders.
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