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Daily Crunch: After clinching $12.3B valuation, Brex hires Meta exec as chief product officer

TechCrunch

Today we have new venture funds, spyware news, Brex raising (again), and more. Cybersecurity matters to democracy : Spyware built by the infamous NSO Group was “used to spy on three critics of the Polish government,” according to Citizen Lab, TechCrunch reports. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 11, 2022!

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Forget the Rules, Listen to the Data

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

Fraud detection software developed in the past have traditionally been based on rules -based models. This traditional approach of using rules or logic statement to query transactions is still used by many banks and payment gateways today and the bad guys are having a field day. This will require another product for data governance.

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The State of Security in 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

We had 1,322 complete responses, of which 419 (32%—roughly one-third) are members of a security team. 903 respondents aren’t on a security team, although 19% of that group hold at least one security-related certification. Our goal was to understand the state of security: What challenges do security teams face? That gives us 27.9%

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Why Is It Necessary to Run Cybersecurity Evaluation Exercises?

Altexsoft

MITRE is the name of a US government-funded organization with a substantial cybersecurity practice spun out of MIT in 1958. It serves as an extensive resource for security researchers, analysts, and incident response teams in evaluating and validating the effectiveness of their respective security defense systems.

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Pros and Cons of Hiring Freelance Cyber Security Consultant

Mobilunity

If you have an IT team, keep in mind that they don’t always have time to conduct a comprehensive cybersecurity assessment because they are already overwhelmed with day-to-day tasks. Therefore, many businesses hire cybersecurity experts to join their teams and take care of security tasks. Making use of out-of-date software.

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Zero-Day: Vulnerabilities, Exploits, Attacks and How to Manage Them

Kaseya

A hacker’s goal is to identify weaknesses or vulnerabilities in an organization’s IT infrastructure that they can then exploit for nefarious purposes. Nevertheless, sometimes it can take days, or even months, for software developers or users to detect a vulnerability. Software vulnerabilities pose serious cybersecurity risks.

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Daily Crunch: After filing for bankruptcy, crypto lender Voyager Digital says it will ‘maintain operations’

TechCrunch

Everyone deserves digital : I wrote about Finli, a startup that raised $6 million in new funds to continue developing its payment management app for service-based businesses. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. Oh, and she also wrote about Nothing and its Black Dot NFT. Advancing AI.

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