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SQL Injection Attack In Cybersecurity:

An injection is a broad class of attack vectors where the attacker provides an altered input to a program. When the input gets executed as a part of a command or a query, the result obtained is completely altered. It is listed as the most dangerous threat in OWASP’s top 10 vulnerabilities.

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About US

An organisation relies on a host of technologies to run its business systems. Having tech support validate these technologies at every step has become an essential component to ensure that business systems run smoothly as they scale up.

With IT validation expertise, StrongBox IT was founded with a vision to help businesses scale up their operational systems with confidence. We instill this confidence by 'StrongBoxing' their IT infrastructure in terms of security, performance, continuous regression, scalability and availability.

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TOP CYBERSECURITY CERTIFICATIONS

3. CREST(Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers)

CREST is expanded as Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers. It is an international non-profit accreditation and certification body that represents and supports the technical information security market. 

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Usage of third-party software components in the development process may lead to this type of attack. Known components like third-party application frameworks, libraries, technologies that may have exposure to major vulnerabilities.

It is listed as the ninth most serious threat OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities.

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Insecure Deserialization is a vulnerability that occurs when malicious data is used to disturb the logic of an application. It induces denial of service attacks or misapplies the logic of an application upon deserialization.

It is listed as the eighth most serious threat OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities.

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The failure of the system to validate the user even after the user authentication is called Broken Access Control. This allows the user to bypass the basic access controls without proper validation. This leads to admin-level data exposure which in turn may lead to several other complications. It obtained fifth place in OWASP’s top 10 vulnerabilities.

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Top CyberNews November 2021 – Week 4

OpenVPN, RobinHood and GoDaddy lose millions of user data in a week.

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HIPAA has elucidated three rules for protecting the Patient’s Health Information (PHI)

Privacy rule

Security rule

Breach notification rule

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WHAT IS HIPAA?

The Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act was established as federal law by the government of the United States to set the standard for sensitive data protection. Companies dealing with Protected Health Information(PHI) must adopt physical network and process security measures to ensure HIPAA compliance.

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What does ModSecurity do?

ModSecurity is built on OWASP core rulesets. The OWASP ModSecurity core ruleset is a set of attack detection instructions, which is followed by ModSecurity and ModSecurity-based WAFs. Their primary propaganda is to protect web applications from a wide range of attacks, including OWASP 10, with a minimum of false alerts. In addition, ModSecurity is a toolkit for monitoring, logging, and access control. Some of the functions of ModSecurity are listed below.

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Top CyberNews October 2021 – Week 4

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Cybersecurity Best Practices

Report suspicious activities

As the saying goes “Prevention is better than cure”, constant monitoring of the system and reporting any suspicious activity might help the organization to prevent any sort of attacks and help them to save millions.

Some suspicious activities include

Stranger in the workplace

Signs of forced entry, tampering with security or safety systems

Links/mails from unknown source

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Cyber Security Best Practices

Beware of phishing:

Phishing is a form of social engineering where an attacker masquerades as a reliable entity or asset and tries to breach the system by misleading them. Their motivation is to lure the personnel to get hold of sensitive data such as company assets, employee information, financial information, and passwords.

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Read more about WAF vs Network Firewall

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Virtual Patching – How can it help, when it comes to cybersecurity?

Virtual patching or vulnerability shielding is a security policy of the enforcement layer. It analyses transactions, intercepts attacks in transit, and prevents malicious traffic from reaching the web application. The virtual patch does not repair the actual faulty application but intends to establish a partly upstream, additional – security mechanism to prevent the exploitation of weakness. There are several ways to implement virtual patching. Some of them are as follows

Upstream as a standalone Web Application Firewall (WAF).

As a plugin for the executing web server.

Directly on the application side by configuration adaptation.

Know more here: https://www.strongboxit.com/virtual-patching/

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The failure of the system to validate the user even after the user authentication is called Broken Access Control. This allows the user to bypass the basic access controls without proper validation. This leads to admin-level data exposure which in turn may lead to several other complications. It obtained a fifth place in OWASP’s top 10 vulnerabilities.

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