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Ransomware Guidelines published by NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, renowned shortly as NIST has published some ransomware guidelines that need to be followed by organizations that are concerned about ransomware attacks. NIST’s objective in offering such guidelines is to help the IT staff of firms to learn how to prevent ransomware attacks on their networks and […]
FedRAMP updates Cloud Security standards to align with NIST rules
The US Government’s Cloud Computing initiative has received a latest update from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program ( FedRAMP). And as per the latest, all cloud services providers should follow security baselines as per the formulations prescribed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Based on the NIST’s Fifth Revision (Rev5) […]
Quantum Mechanics helps scientists create new encryption methods which are unbreakable
All these days most of us thought that numbers generated on a random note could be unhackable. But in the year 2017, some scientists from China proved that all sequential passwords generated even by specific mathematical formulae can be uncovered by supercomputers. However, recently, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Maryland […]
NIST formulates guidelines for dealing with Ransomware Recovery
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence(NCCoE) at the National Institute of Science and Technology(NIST) has developed a recovery guide for firms which are hit with ransomware. NIST announced that it has structured the guide with the help of vendors and businesses within the cyber security community. The objective of the guide is to help companies […]
Password Security Bible fails to curb Cyber Attacks!
Bill Burr’s bible on password security which was introduced to the world in 2003 has failed to curb cyber attacks. This was admitted by Bill in his recent interaction with Wall Street Journal. While working for US government, Mr. Burr wrote a password bible to help guide the digital world on the safest practices to […]
Password change doesn’t boost your enterprise cyber security
As data security concerns are increasing day by day, most security experts say that frequent password change can bolster enterprise cyber security. But this isn’t true in practical say experts from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Security experts from NIST say that enterprise IT managers should start formulating user-friendly password policies by encouraging […]
Microsoft to offer Booz Allen Cloud security Portfolio on Azure
Microsoft has made it official that it is going to add Booz Allen Hamilton’s cloud security portfolio on its Azure Government Marketplace. This is to provide fool-proof cloud workload protection and security services for public customers. Booz Allen’s Virtual Cloud Defense suite includes the best breed of commercial off the shelf, open source security products […]
