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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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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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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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Hackers often talk about practicing good “cybersecurity hygiene” : making sure that basic standards, such as using unique passwords for each log-in, are met. This breadth of information can be much more valuable on the black market—sometimes up to $30 per record—than the typical consumer financial profile , which sells for $10 to $12.

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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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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

More than three in five CIOs surveyed by Salesforce say they’re expected to know more about AI than they do, potentially leading to massive and costly deployment mistakes. A huge part of the problem is that generative AI is so new that little expertise exists, says Seth Blank, CTO at Valimail, an email authentication provider.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Identity and access security issues are increasingly top of mind for companies. According to a recent Verizon survey , 61% of all breaches now involve credentials — whether they be stolen via social engineering or hacked using brute force. In a March 2021 survey by Ping Identity, 64% of U.S.-based

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

Protecting these ever-increasing volumes of data is a high priority, and while there are many different types of cybersecurity threats to enterprise data, ransomware dominates the field. At the top of the cybersecurity risk chart is ransomware attacks. Organizations will only be as safe as their identities are secured.”

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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. million.

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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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Tenable

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Check out a new framework for better securing open source projects. 1 - New cybersecurity framework for open source projects Heres the latest industry effort aimed at boosting open-source software security. OpenSSF created the OSPS Baseline after concluding that open-source project leaders often need help with cybersecurity.

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

Artificial intelligence and machine learning Unsurprisingly, AI and machine learning top the list of initiatives CIOs expect their involvement to increase in the coming year, with 80% of respondents to the State of the CIO survey saying so. Other surveys offer similar findings. 1 priority among its respondents as well.

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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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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

JUNE 3, 2024

However, amidst the allure of newfound technology lies a profound duality—the stark contrast between the benefits of AI-driven software development and the formidable security risks it introduces. This dichotomy underscores the need for a nuanced understanding between AI-developed code and security within the cloud-native ecosystem.

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CIO

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For its AI Priorities Study 2023 , Foundry surveyed IT decision-makers who have either implemented AI and generative AI technologies in their organizations, have plans to, or are actively researching them. Top of those AI priorities for now is generative AI, with 56% of respondents eager to learn more about it.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Digitalization is a double-edged sword for banks, especially when it comes to security. As interactions and transactions become more interconnected, even the simplest processes like opening a new account or making a balance transfer become riddled with security concerns. Avaya’s research report reveals three critical ways to do so.

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Tenable

JANUARY 26, 2024

And a global survey shows cyber pros weighing pros and cons of AI. 1 - Using AI securely: Global cyber agencies publish new guide Is your organization – like many others – aggressively adopting artificial intelligence to boost operational efficiency? Plus, CERT’s director says AI is the top skill for CISOs to have in 2024.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

At a recent CIO New Zealand roundtable event in Auckland, supported by Palo Alto Networks and Vodafone New Zealand, senior technology executives from organisations across Aotearoa discussed the challenge of keeping security front of mind when the workforce is dispersed. The other key aspect is implementing zero trust networking.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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Tenable

APRIL 12, 2024

Plus, a new survey shows cybersecurity pros are guardedly optimistic about AI. And the NSA is sharing best practices for data security. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in its Emergency Directive 24-02 , sent to federal civilian agencies last week and made public this week. And much more!

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Tenable

OCTOBER 21, 2022

21 | The problem with Gen Zers and Millennials | Global shortage of cybersecurity pros worsens | An informal poll about attack surface growth | Password usage drops a bit | And much more! This may sound counterintuitive but employees between ages 18 and 41 tend to be less careful regarding cybersecurity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Seeking to bring greater security to AI systems, Protect AI today raised $13.5 Protect AI claims to be one of the few security companies focused entirely on developing tools to defend AI systems and machine learning models from exploits. Swanson suggests internal-use authentication tokens and other credentials, for one.

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Kaseya

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Cybersecurity affects the everyday lives of most IT practitioners and IT leaders worldwide, with more than 50 percent of them citing “Improving IT Security” as a top priority in 2021 as per our 2020 IT Operations Survey Results Report. Here are a few steps your organization should take to improve its cybersecurity posture.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 14, 2025

Security is finally being taken seriously. AI tools are starting to take the load off of security specialists, helping them to get out of firefighting mode. However, Anthropics documentation is full of warnings about serious security vulnerabilities that remain to be solved. That might be a career mistake.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

16 | How cybersecurity excellence boosts business | CISOs on a vendor-consolidation campaign | A quick check on converged OT/IT cybersecurity | Guides to help developers beef up on security | And much more! Top-notch cybersecurity yields business gains. Source: McKinsey Global Survey on Digital Trust, Sept.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2022

According to a recent survey by DemandScience and Comcast Business, over the next 12 months, retail IT executives will prioritize upgrades in digital customer experience (CX), network and cybersecurity solutions, expanded use of analytics-backed decision making, and increased investments in AI. Retail-specific vulnerabilities.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In August 2024, we asked our customers to tell us about security: their role in security, their certifications, their concerns, and what their companies are doing to address those concerns. We had 1,322 complete responses, of which 419 (32%—roughly one-third) are members of a security team. are managers, 7.2% are managers, 7.2%

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Tenable

JUNE 28, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI, the Australian Cyber Security Center and the Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity. The agencies analyzed 172 projects that the Open Source Security Foundation has identified as being critically important in the open source ecosystem.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Get the latest on salary trends for CISOs and cybersecurity pros; CISA’s call for adopting phishing-resistant MFA; the White House’s ransomware summit; and more! and Canada improved this year compared with 2021 as employers paid up to retain their cybersecurity chiefs amidst a shortage of qualified candidates for these jobs.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 13, 2025

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies, such as AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI.

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Tenable

MARCH 8, 2024

Plus, a survey shows how artificial intelligence is impacting cybersecurity jobs. That’s according to ISC2’s survey “AI in Cyber 2024: Is the Cybersecurity Profession Ready?”, based on a poll of 1,123 cybersecurity pros. Source: “AI in Cyber 2024: Is the Cybersecurity Profession Ready?” And much more!

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Tenable

JANUARY 6, 2023

Learn all about the cybersecurity expertise that employers value most; Google Cybersecurity Action Team’s latest take on cloud security trends; a Deloitte report on cybersecurity’s growing business influence; a growth forecast for cyber spending; and more! Happy New Year! 1, 2022 and plucked the following nuggets.

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The Parallax

MAY 14, 2019

—Google just made it much, much easier for Android device owners to protect themselves with one of the safest extra security layers available to consumers. or later, you are a few steps away from turning it into a two-factor authentication key , the company announced at its annual I/O developer conference here on May 7.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Araujo makes the case, however, that MDM with Apple devices remains fraught from a security and privacy perspective. “The challenge for [chief information security officers] and IT teams is clear. . “The challenge for [chief information security officers] and IT teams is clear. billion in 2021.

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CIO

MAY 31, 2023

Companies at the start of their API security journey should begin by establishing an inventory of APIs in the environment, including the functionality they perform, languages they use, authentication and data security requirements they have, as well as the primary owners/developers of those APIs.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 15, 2022

The future of cybersecurity is being shaped by the need for companies to secure their networks, data, devices, and identities. This includes adopting security frameworks like zero trust, which will help companies secure internal information systems and data in the cloud. Zero Trust Security.

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