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Article by Vinoth Darwin What is an Azure Blueprint: Blueprints, in the traditional sense, are used by architects and engineers to design and build new things. They are used to ensure that the final products are built to specifications and in compliance with certain standards and requirements. Same way, Azure Blueprints helps you deploy and update cloud ...

Cryptojacking is an attack used to illicitly generate cryptocurrency. Coin mining clients are installed covertly on target devices and run as a hidden background process. Preventing cryptojacking means securing network communications and performing regular vulnerability analysis.Cryptocurrency provides many new opportunities through legitimate and illicit means. As profitable cryptocurrency mining ventures require access to powerful hardware, cryptojacking has emerged ...

TL;DR: IT certifications are absolutely necessary for many positions in the cybersecurity industry. This section further explores some of the most valuable IT certifications for cybersecurity professionals. The certifications detailed below can be found and expanded on via their official online channels. Not all IT certifications can be applied towards cybersecurity, but many network administration and ...

There are many IT certifications that can be applied in a direct or general way towards positions in cybersecurity. General certifications like Project Management Professional certification can qualify candidates for a wide variety of positions and specific cybersecurity positions. Other certifications like the CEH certifications are designed specifically for cybersecurity. This section explores some of these certifications and ...

The Internet of Things is a new, popular trend in commercial and consumer technology, and this trend is creating new vectors of attack for malicious hackers. A new type of botnet, the IoT botnet, has emerged in the wake of the Internet of Things. This section explores the basics of botnets, how it is applied towards the IoT, ...

My team works with a big number of media data: video, rendering, photos, illustrations. To ensure the best teamwork, we need constant access to all these files. At some point, we no longer have enough storage place at our own server, and we started looking for cloud storage that ...

This blog originally appeared on the Cisco Security blog . Reposted with permission. There is no question that unwanted email is a source of annoyance. It is also the biggest source of cyber threats. In fact, just last month, spam accounted for 85 percent of all email sent . Plus, according to Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations ...

What is Data Science? 'The Amalgamation of AI+ML+Big_Data' would be the sweetest and shortest answer. Formal Definitions: The application of tools, techniques, and methodologies of domains such as algorithms, machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence in a systematic, disciplined and quantifiable manner which ultimately leads to Scientific and Engineered approaches to Data ...

What is Phactive? Phactive is a little script written in bash, it’s to aid in a red team workflow, Since red team is mostly about continuous monitoring and simulation of a real life attack. unlike in Penetration testing where you just have to run a scan and submit a report the explain ...

Now days we are dealing with lots of Security Incidents (which is Violation of Security Policy) and to deal with them we must follow some guidelines to address such security incident, here we will discuss Incident Response lifecycle that we (I am a Incident Handler) follow. You will have idea about what do we do in an overview perspective ...