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I usually spend my mornings doing some reading and enjoying my coffee. On this one particular morning, I noticed that I had received an email from a gaming company I had created an account with around 10 years ago for my kids. They had sent me a code to confirm a login that was being done from Thailand. I had forgotten that I had even created the account. The account used a set of my credentials that had been compromised many years ago in one of the many data breaches that occur on a continuous basis.

Continuous security monitoring (CSM) is a threat intelligence approach that automates the monitoring of information security controls, vulnerabilities, and other cyber threats to support organizational risk management decisions. Organizations need real-time visibility of indicators of compromise, security misconfiguration, and vulnerabilities in their infrastructure and networks.

Welcome to blog 2 of our 3-part series featuring top recommendations to help financial institutions (FIs) navigate the impact of COVID-19 on their payment business. Last week’s blog shared tips to manage the surge in online and mobile banking transactions. This week, we’ll focus on card-not-present fraud. As we inch closer to June, the coronavirus continues to affect consumer purchasing behaviors – including an immense payments shift towards digital banking and e-commerce.

As we head into Q3 of 2020, life is looking quite different for all of us around the world. With many governments beginning to implement plans to ease restrictions, economies are expected to slowly regain their footing. Even as brick and mortar businesses around the world gradually re-open, we will continue to see a trend towards contactless payments, digital banking, online orders and e-commerce.

For most practical uses today, a combination of hardening and vulnerability detection is required to secure even the most basic digital environment. In each area it is important to see the progress you’re making in these competencies so that you can improve and build on the work you and your team have done over time. But with so many assets in your digital environment, how do you score the effectiveness of these security measures?

In part one of this two-part blog series, we discussed seven reasons security configurations are an important part of an organization’s security posture. In this part, we’ll look at eight security configurations that can help with ensuring comprehensive control over the endpoints, avoiding vulnerabilities, deploying security configurations, and automating a number of verticals of endpoint security.

With COVID-19 continuing to affect consumers and business of all sizes across every industry around the world, there has never been a more important time for financial institutions (FIs) to ensure that payment transactions complete as expected. In the next three weeks, we will release a blog a week discussing the top tips INETCO is recommending to customers in an effort to navigate the impact of COVID-19 on their payments business.

Working from home has become our new normal, with many of our jobs being performed remotely. The experience of working remotely can be as seamless as it was from our workplace, with all the technological advancements available today. Businesses have also put network security on the forefront by implementing use of virtual private networks (VPNs). This enables users to securely access confidential information hosted on the organizations’ servers.

Malicious actors continue to abuse coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) as a lure to profit off of innocent people. Indeed, Arkose Labs found that 26.5% of all transactions recorded in Q1 2020 were fraud and abuse attempts—a 20% increase over the previous quarter and the highest attack rate ever observed by the security firm’s researchers. It’s therefore unsurprising that we’ve seen the U.S.

Patch Manager Plus recently joined ManageEngine’s flagship unified endpoint management software, Desktop Central, in SoftwareWorld’s list of Top 10+ Best Endpoint Protection Software in 2020. In the platform’s review of several alternative tools, both ManageEngine products received a score of 98/100.