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Three Ways to Protect Student Data in the Digital Age

Starting at the age of five and into early adulthood, students become the responsibility of educational institutions. It's the school’s responsibility to keep students safe, meet their educational needs and foster future success. However, in the digital age, schools and universities are faced with another responsibility: protecting student data. Educational institutes are now the home of educational records, health records, personal and parental data, and social security numbers.

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Q-Bot Ransomware Targeting Financial Services: What Is It and What to Do About It

One particularly virulent ransomware affecting the financial services industry is Quack-Bot, also known as Q-Bot. Q-Bot notoriously defeats most endpoint protection technologies. It has the capability to steal credentials, account numbers and other sensitive banking information for export to cyber thieves.

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How to Build a Solid Cybersecurity Foundation in Financial Services

It’s regulatory world we live in. From tax regulations to “you-need-to-be-this-tall-to-ride,” we’re conditioned to feel like if we follow the rules, all will be well.  And if there’s an industry that knows the importance of complying with standards and regulations, it’s financial services.

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Maximizing the Power of Your Microsoft Security Investment

Maximizing the Power of Your Microsoft Security Investment

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Protecting your free time – a 3-part plan to get more time away from the office

Time away from the office, sitting on a warm beach, toes in the sand. This is a common fantasy in today’s culture, but maybe time away from the office for you means something totally different. Maybe it’s making your daughter’s play or visiting your grandfather every Friday. Maybe it’s volunteering on a river cleanup initiative or working on that project in the garage.

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A Design Collaboration with Microsoft

No Stone Left Unturned

About 4 years ago, Critical Start received multiple requests to support Microsoft Defender for Endpoint from customers pursuing an E5 license agreement. Since the development of that initial integration, we’ve continued to expand our service offerings while Microsoft has expanded its product portfolio – allowing us to leverage Microsoft Sentinel, and the rest of the Defender suite – to deliver our world-class managed detection and response (MDR) solution.

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CrowdStrike MDR

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A team unparalleled in the marketplace

CrowdStrike and CRITICALSTART offer best of breed endpoint detection and MDR to establish a strong security posture, manage complex processes and eliminate unnecessary risk in a comprehensive endpoint security program.

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MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for Managed Services: Critical Start Participation 

2022 marks MITRE’s first ever ATT&CK Evaluations: Managed Services – and Critical Start is excited to announce that we are participating in the inaug

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Beyond the Endpoint: Detect and Disrupt User Account Attacks

By: Chris Carlson, VP of Product Management

“What’s in a name?” For Shakespeare, it’s the start of a famous soliloquy in a play about blossoming love. For cybersecurity professionals - if that name is a compromised user account leading to administrative privileges – it’s the start of an attack vector that’s been difficult to detect, disrupt, or contain.

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XDR 101: What is Extended Detection and Response?

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) is by far one of the hottest topics and trends in cybersecurity today.