CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Intro: Time was, a call center agent could be relatively secure in knowing who was at the other end of the line. And if they werent, multi-factor authentication (MFA), answers to security questions, and verbal passwords would solve the issue. A recent report found that fraudsters are not always trying to bypass authentication.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Take Descope , for example, which today announced that it raised a whopping $53 million in seed funding for its “developer-first” authentication and user management platform. Capital might be harder to come by than it once was in startup land, but some firms are bucking the trend — hard.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For instance, AT&T launched a comprehensive reskilling initiative called “Future Ready” to train employees in emerging technologies such as cloud computing, cybersecurity, and data analytics. Solution: Implement a robust security framework that includes regular risk assessments, threat modeling, and continuous monitoring.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and toolsets.

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 2, 2025

This new approach required a secure, private 5G network connecting OT sensors, pumps and other devices across its network, while ensuring secure SASE connectivity to the centralized data center for all remote operations. This leaves them with significant complexity and security gaps.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Should chief information security officers at companies hit by ad fraud take a stronger role in stopping it? Research company eMarketer estimated costs between $6.5 billion and $19 billion in 2019, and Juniper Research concluded that it would cost $42 billion by the end of 2019. Defense Mechanisms. Defense Mechanisms.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Stranieri, who has worked in the cybersecurity industry for the past 20 years, got the idea for VU in 2007 after spending hours helping his grandmother verify her identity with the Argentinian government in what turned out to be a two-minute process. It’s time for security teams to embrace security data lakes.

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The Parallax

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

You might think of cybersecurity professionals as tech’s collective “ watchers on the wall ”—the guardians who let you know when doom is coming. With that perspective, you might find it hard to believe that hackers, security researchers, and other cybersecurity experts have much to be thankful for, or to look forward to.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Cybersecurity teams, beware: The defender’s dilemma is a lie Image Credits: A. Martin UW Photography (opens in a new window) / Getty Images The Defender’s Dilemma is one of cybersecurity’s touchstones: “Defenders have to be right every time. ” It may sound authentic, but David J. .”

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Plus, OWASP is offering guidance about deepfakes and AI security. Those are three security measures cyber teams should proactively take in response to an ongoing and “large scale” email spear-phishing campaign targeting victims with malicious RDP files , according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Sandvik is also a renowned hacker and security researcher and, as of recently, a founder. Sandvik told me about her work and her new bootstrapped startup, how leaders should prioritize their cybersecurity efforts, and, what piece of security advice she would give that every person should know. Image: (supplied).

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CIO

JULY 18, 2024

Cloud security firm Wiz has probed SAP defenses as part of its tenant isolation research on AI service providers, and on Wednesday published a lengthy list of shortcomings. SAP says that they fixed all of the problems before Wiz published.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and toolsets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Tomer Greenwald, Uri Sarid and Ori Shoshan, software developers by trade, found themselves building and configuring software authentication and authorization mechanisms repeatedly — each time with a different tech stack. But one factor in Otterize’s favor is the heightened spending on cybersecurity, particularly in the enterprise.

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The Parallax

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The Ring doorbell spent much of 2019 getting buzzed by perceived security and privacy issues, from secret agreements with law enforcement agencies to cybersecurity practices that put its users at risk. It’s designed to be a Wi-Fi-enabled, 180-degree security camera pointed perpetually at your doorstep and your neighbors.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2024

Today, cloud providers may offer better cybersecurity protections than many companies can provide on-premises. The security professional shortage Some 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs are unfilled globally, with 750,000 of them in the U.S., according to researchers at Cybersecurity Ventures.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

And get the latest on cloud security, SMBs' MFA use and the CIS Benchmarks. Document the secure baseline configurations for all IT/OT systems. Require phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication for all users and on all VPN connections. Secure internet-facing devices. Monitor your attack surface continuously.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

China follows the EU, with additional focus on national security In March 2024 the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) published a draft Artificial Intelligence Law, and a translated version became available in early May. Lastly, China’s AI regulations are focused on ensuring that AI systems do not pose any perceived threat to national security.

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The Parallax

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

But after a widespread breach of the entertainment company’s new Disney+ accounts , at least one cybersecurity research company is indicating that its new streaming service needs more than a magical concoction to fly among those it’d qualify as reasonably secure. There’s no two-factor authentication —that’s a no-brainer.

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But first, tech giants and telecommunications network providers will have to fix its major security flaws, researchers say. READ MORE ON PHONE SECURITY AND PRIVACY. Primer: Why are Androids less secure than iPhones? “ The carriers are reinventing old security problems that the industry had previously solved.”—Karsten

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Now, cybersecurity startup Nudge Security is emerging from stealth to help organizations tackle what they think is the biggest cybersecurity weakness: people. As these big names demonstrate, these kinds of attacks can be hard for even the most well-resourced organizations to protect against.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Valence Security , a company securing business app infrastructure, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture arm, with participation from YL Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Akamai Technologies, Alumni Ventures and former Symantec CEO Michael Fey.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

There is a pending concern about how to manage AI agents in the cloud, says Dave McCarthy, research vice president at IDC, noting that the expanding availability of AI agents from startups and established vendors will give CIOs asset management, security, and versioning challenges.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As a cybersecurity leader, Tenable was proud to be one of the original signatories of CISA’s “Secure by Design" pledge earlier this year. Our embrace of this pledge underscores our commitment to security-first principles and reaffirms our dedication to shipping robust, secure products that our users can trust.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

VPN technologies have long been the backbone of remote access, but according to new ThreatLabz research, the security risks and performance challenges of VPNs may be rapidly changing the status quo for enterprises. One key striking trend: enterprises are beginning to transition en masse to adopt zero trust solutions.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Focused on digitization and innovation and closely aligned with lines of business, some 40% of IT leaders surveyed in CIO.com’s State of the CIO Study 2024 characterize themselves as transformational, while a quarter (23%) consider themselves functional: still optimizing, modernizing, and securing existing technology infrastructure.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

And while some research indicates that connected technology might solve urban traffic woes—imagine networks of autonomous vehicles , outfitted with sensors that interact with traffic lights —it wouldn’t take much effort in the nearer future, some theorize, for a car network hack to grind urban traffic to a halt. READ MORE ON CONNECTED CARS.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

Quocirca’s research reveals that 42% of organisations have experienced a cybersecurity incident in the past year, rising to 51% in the finance sector and 55% amongst midmarket organisations. The volume of security incidents has increased in the past year for 61% of organisations.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2024

Looking ahead to the next 12-18 months, two top priorities emerge for IT leaders: developing a strong business case for AI infrastructure spending (cited by 35% of respondents to IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3 , March 2024) and increasing cyber resilience and security (34%).

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. The exposure of personal or sensitive information can lead to identity theft, phishing attacks, and other forms of cybercrime. There is no silver bullet in cybersecurity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Back in 2018, Refael Angel, a former security software engineer at Intuit, had an idea for a new approach to protect encryption keys — the random string of bits created to scramble and unscramble data — on the cloud. GitGuardian estimates that app security engineers on average have to handle over 3,400 secrets occurrences.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It also introduces new security challenges that demand our attention, especially as IoT is integrated into operational technology (OT) environments. 6 IoT vulnerabilities to watch out for Security risks are a significant concern for businesses using LoT and OT technology.

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David Walsh

MARCH 4, 2021

Authentication is one of those things that just always seems to take a lot more effort than we want it to. To set up auth, you have to re-research topics you haven’t thought about since the last time you did authentication, and the fast-paced nature of the space means things have often changed in the meantime. JWT access tokens.

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Tenable

MARCH 14, 2025

government sent this week via an advisory to cybersecurity teams, especially those at critical infrastructure organizations. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), which issued the joint advisory with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC).

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

Organizations have shifted to remote desktop work environments at an increasing speed since then – simultaneously expanding their attack surface and exposing themselves to greater cybersecurity threats. Given that threat actors exploit critical vulnerabilities within mere hours of publication, this poses a serious security risk for companies.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be secure and protected. What methods are cybersecurity experts using to minimize the impact of these attacks? Let’s dig deeper.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Over 100,00 organizations are expected to be impacted by Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) cybersecurity standards that European Union (EU) member states must implement by October 2024. [i] This concept of least-privilege access is fundamental to Zero Trust Security practices.

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