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Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, was a popular program used to encrypt and decrypt email over the internet, as well as authenticate messages with digital signatures and encrypted stored files.

OT systems face threats from attackers targeting their remote access capabilities. Segmenting networks is one important step. Learn other ways to safeguard your OT systems.

Supply chain attacks, double extortion and RaaS are some of the ransomware trends that will continue to disrupt businesses in 2025. Is your industry a top target?

There are eight main types of ransomware but hundreds of examples of ransomware strains. Learn how the ransomware types work and review notable attacks and variants.

Cloud security, or cloud computing security, is a set of policies, practices and controls deployed to protect cloud-based data, applications and infrastructure from cyberattacks and cyberthreats.

As your organization's first line of defense, hold regular employee training on how to prevent, detect and respond to ransomware attacks.

Sudo offers administrators a lot of flexibility. Creating custom sudo configurations can go a long way toward easing management and service upgrade challenges.

Corporate governance is the combination of rules, processes and laws by which businesses are operated, regulated and controlled.

Negotiating with the criminals who are holding your data for ransom is a daunting and stressful endeavor. Experts weigh in on the risks and the potential outcomes.

Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft's proprietary directory service that enables network admins to manage users, permissions and their access to networking resources.

Organizations sometimes learn difficult lessons about gaps in their cybersecurity defenses. Here's what to know about ransomware preparation, detection, response and recovery.

A data breach response plan outlines how a business reacts to a breach. Follow these six steps, and use our free template to develop your organization's plan.

Microsoft delivers fixes for 121 vulnerabilities with 11 rated critical this month. Admins will have extra mitigation work to correct three flaws.

Quishing is an offputting word for an on-the-rise attack method. Learn how to defend against it.

Google Gemini is the first proprietary frontier model that can be run on-premises via Google Distributed Cloud for privacy- and cost-conscious enterprises.

Quantum-resistant algorithms play a crucial role in post-quantum cryptography, which protects against threats on digital signatures and current encryption methods.

Check out what Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Todd Thiemann has on his agenda for RSA Conference 2025.

IT vendors roll out fresh tools to take on identity and access management for AI agents as enterprises deploy them internally and battle malicious ones externally.

To pay or not to pay -- that's the question after a ransomware attack. Law enforcement recommends against it, but that doesn't stop some companies from paying up.