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Choosing an office laptop for Linux on the example of Hiper Expertbook

In the corporate world, the era of Microsoft's uncontested rule has come to an end: companies are switching to Linux-based operating systems, but not every laptop promises you normal work with the Linux OS. In the corporate world, the era of Microsoft's uncontested rule has come to an end: companies are forced to switch to Linux-based operating systems, abandon Office/Office365 packages in favor of sovereign or free solutions. Starting with government agencies, this trend extends to ...
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What kind of protection against hackers and forensic experts are there in laptops? We show by the example of Maibenben P415

In this article, I will show you how an ordinary office laptop at the hardware level can be protected from various kinds of attacks, especially those related to the seizure or theft of the device, and after reading it, I want you to look carefully at your corporate laptops and answer yourself – what of the above do you have? Many "security officers" do not pay due attention to the laptop hardware, considering that security is limited at the level of antivirus, group policies and ...
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What do cryptocurrencies and Linux have in common, and why neither "took off"

The cryptocurrency market has collapsed, and let's leave the romance and childhood dreams and admit to ourselves: cryptocurrencies will not be able to break the financial system with banks. We already have an example of excellent free Linux operating systems, which were also predicted for the great future, but failed. TL;DR :   the absence of a leader, a strategy, a clear sales model and an administrative resource creates chaos on the site of open projects, from which nothing worthwhile can ...
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2 years later: 7 facts on how Covid-19 has affected global cybersecurity

Covid-19 has affected every organization, from a family business to a large enterprise. In almost all cases, we have seen that most employees work from home. This in itself meant expanding the corporate network to home offices. To ensure security, organizations needed to provide each employee with the same level of security that they would have if they worked in an office. Covid-19 affected organizations of any size Covid-19 has affected every organization, from a family business to a large ...
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Drown, fry, beat, shoot: crash test of the protected Getac V110 laptop

A story about how once a protected transformer laptop forgot the safe word and was subjected to all possible tortures in our test lab. He died, but the life in him was not extinguished. The industry of secure laptops is developing along with the growing demand for such devices from medium-sized businesses: today, on a livestock farm, in a woodworking shop, on a drilling platform, and even in a geoloc tent, everything is computerized, and the concept of IoT + Edge (read our article about the ...
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What has COVID-19 taught us in the context of information technology security?

Today, almost no discussion on any topic goes on for a long time without raising the topic of the pandemic in some way. this agenda dominates our entire lives in many ways today. of course, life will continue, but somewhat differently. companies have had to rethink their business models and adapt to the fact that in the near future fewer people will work in the office, many will continue their activities remotely. This situation has put pressure on IT departments, including new security issues. ...
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Creating a "human firewall" to deal with insider threats

Employees can pose a significant risk to the security of corporate networks and the data they hold. The severity of this problem is confirmed by research – 68% of organizations feel moderately or extremely vulnerable to insider attacks. In the first half of 2020, the FortiGuard Labs team found that the evolution of the work environment and greater reliance on personal devices open up new opportunities for cybercriminals to penetrate corporate networks. One of the most popular methods for ...