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Posts in the Security Category

October 26, 2023 by Ben Arent

Protecting infrastructure with device trust

With an increase in sophisticated attacks targeting engineers, securing and protecting access to critical infrastructure is becoming increasingly important. Read on to see how teams are using Jamf Pro and Teleport to enforce access to only trusted devices.

October 25, 2023 by Hannah Hamilton

Jamf Security Lounge: Cyber mindfulness — Reducing risk during a stress epidemic

Employees are dealing with a changing workplace and world beyond anyone’s control, leading to stress, distraction and burnout. This episode of Jamf Security Lounge talks about The Zensory, an app with the aim of improving employee well-being. Learn more about The Zensory and how Nedbank uses the app for cybersecurity.

October 23, 2023 by Liarna La Porta

Malicious profiles – one of the most serious threats to mobile devices

Find out how threat actors maliciously deploy configuration profiles to your Apple devices as part of their attack chain, and what you can do to prevent them.

October 18, 2023 by Jesus Vigo

What is a Whaling phishing attack and how to prevent it

Threats impacting your cybersecurity defenses continue to grow and evolve from one type of form to another. Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) and converged threat types were already difficult to detect, and now existing threats, like Whaling, are getting supercharged by AI to become more efficient and scalable. In this blog, we delve into Whaling Phishing attacks:

  • What Whaling attacks are?
  • How do they impact cybersecurity?
  • Provide examples of real-world attacks
  • Breakdown the anatomy of a Whaling attack
  • and discuss the different ways to prevent them
October 17, 2023 by Jesus Vigo

Assessing your organization’s security needs: Why it’s critical to your overall security posture

Understanding the security needs of an organization is only one component of maintaining a strong security posture. Knowing the risks that are unique to your organization and assessing them accurately are critical to the overall security posture as well.

In this paper, learn:

  • What risk is and how telemetry data collected provides visibility into device health and overall security posture
  • Why assessing risk must be performed at a regular cadence, iteratively as part of the security stack
  • How this data aids your organization in not only determining its security needs but also how to use it to protect against current and future risks
  • Why integrating risk data with endpoint security solutions helps organizations maintain a strong security posture while meeting compliance goals
October 16, 2023 by Braden Newell

Mitigating social engineering attacks

Social engineering is a common (and costly) attack that plagues organizations today. This blog discusses techniques to add to your defense-in-depth strategy to help defend against these nefarious threats.

October 13, 2023 by Liarna La Porta

Back to security basics: phishing

Phishing is reponsible for the majority of cyber attacks, affecting users and organizations financially and personally. In this blog, we go back to the basics of what phishing is, what an attack looks like and what steps can be taken to prevent falling victim to phishing attacks.

October 12, 2023 by Jesus Vigo

macOS Security Basics series: The One Where Your Data Wasn’t Encrypted with FileVault

Encrypting your data may seem like a foreign concept to some users. It may be the stuff of thriller-type novels and spy yarns. But the reality is that encrypting data is a fundamental security control that is built into every version of macOS (and iOS/iPadOS for that matter) that serves a singular purpose: keeping unauthorized users from accessing your personal, corporate and privacy data whenever your computer is not in use. As a matter of fact, the benefits combined with a dead simple setup make it a “no-brainer” for business and personal users alike, leaving users to wonder why they didn’t enable it sooner.

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