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Microsoft Outlook is one of the most popular email client software. The reputation of Outlook can be mainly attributed to its easy-to-use graphical interface and up-to-date security enhancements. Connectivity with other advanced technologies makes Microsoft Outlook stand out in the crowd against other email clients. However, the ease and complexity are indirectly proportional to each other in the technological fields. ...

Heading into 2021, organizations may be searching for better methods to manage and reduce their company's cybersecurity protection challenges, which may involve using industry-specific cybersecurity assessment tools. The question is, "Where to start?" The answer is to customize the current cyber-risk assessment tool by integrating it with the National Institute for Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF). This article ...

DES (Data Encryption Standard)DES: DES is a symmetric-key block cipher adopted in 1977 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST) and was initially created by an IBM team. Symmetric indicates that the cipher will use the same key to encrypt or decrypt the given input data & block indicates that the cipher will take a fixed-sized block as an ...

IT security management is critical for operational success — regardless of industry, market, or vertical. For any organization with lingering doubts, the pandemic pressures of 2020 have made this protective priority crystal clear. As noted by GovTech, this year saw not only the highest number of records ever breached but also a substantive uptick in ransomware efforts as attackers looked to ...

SolarWinds and FireEye hacks are a major catastrophe that could have been avoided with some best security practice. Passwords, API tokens, privacy keys, and other sensitive information are regarded as secrets. They are supposed to be kept hidden but many threats will persistently try to uncover them. Protecting these secrets is not an easy task, especially with volume and when ...

MS Outlook is the world's most popular email client program used to manage the Exchange emails that improve business performance. MS Outlook stores its email files in a PST file format, and this file must remain secure so no third party can access it without permission. The best technique for securing this file is to protect it with a password. ...

Linux was developed and publicly released by Linus Torvalds in September 1991. Linux is a free and open-source operating system, unlike either Windows OS or macOS. Linux offers multiple desktop and server distros. Typically the Linux OS is employed for cloud and server software. Some popular Linux distros are Ubuntu, Debian, and RedHat Enterprise Linux. Because Linux is free and ...

SOC stands for Security Operation Center. A SOC is staffed with cyber-security professionals who work as a team to protect an organization's IT assets from cyberthreats. A SOC analyst's role is not merely limited to protecting IT infrastructure. Instead, a SOC analyst's primary role is assessing the target organization's IT infrastructure for weaknesses and suggesting countermeasures to improve its defenses ...

Individuals interested in performing penetration testing on Structured Query Language (SQL) databases should look at SQLi Dumper. This is an excellent automatic SQL injection tool that scans web applications for SQL injection vulnerabilities. It can be downloaded through the https://sqli-dumper.com/ website. Use/download with caution. The website also provides SQLi Dumper tutorials and other pertinent information. This overview ...

Most of the time, users want to copy the database from one server to another without any data loss. One of the most emerging queries nowadays is to copy SQL Server databases from one Server to another Server. This is a challenging task for end-users; therefore, not easy to execute. Nevertheless, it will not be more difficult from now onwards ...