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Common security mistakes, familiar threats confront cyber planners in 2019

By Charlie Mitchell / October 12, 2018

NEW YORK CITY. The cyber threat environment is being shaped by old-school threats like worm spreaders as well as advanced attack methods by nation-states and criminals, security pros said here at the Carbon Black “Connect” conference, but the problem is compounded by companies’ failure to fully implement and use security tools.

“Worm spreaders are back – it looks like five years ago,” commented Brian Beyer, CEO of the cybersecurity firm Red Canary. “But now the target has changed, they’re prowling...


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