In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, managing cyber risk has become essential for sustaining corporate growth and resilience. Cyber risk management requires balancing corporate growth against the evolving tactics of threat actors and governmental regulations – a daunting task that requires continuous measurement and strategic reflection.

Critical infrastructure systems, such as power plants, water treatment plants, transportation networks, and factories, depend on operational technology (OT) to work. OT systems are meant to handle physical devices and processes, while traditional IT systems are mostly concerned with keeping data and information safe. Because of this main difference, OT security is very hard, especially since OT networks are becoming more and more linked to IT networks, which makes them more open to cyber dangers.

Forward Networks ensures that the world's most complex and mission-critical networks are secure, agile, and reliable. A mathematical model of the network, including computations of all possible traffic paths, is built by collecting configuration data and L2-L7 states from networking devices and public cloud platforms.

Snyk is proud to announce that our developer security platform has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Software, Q4 2024 report. In this evaluation, we were one of just three Leaders and were named a Customer Favorite.

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) has created new opportunities for risk. It is crucial to understand that this powerful combination is also being weaponized by cybercriminals, presenting unprecedented challenges for organizations worldwide.

Researchers at IBM X-Force are tracking a phishing campaign by the criminal threat actor “Hive0145” that’s using stolen invoice notifications to trick users into installing malware. Hive0145 acts as an initial access broker, selling access to compromised organizations to other threat actors who then carry out additional cyberattacks.

This year’s Money 20/20 event brought industry leaders together to discuss the latest in payments and fintech. Many conversations at the event underscored certain key trends that are rapidly shaping the payments landscape. The shift in the types of conversations around stablecoins happening today is undeniable – the question has moved beyond “Why stablecoins?” to “How do we do this today?” Here are three major takeaways from this year’s event.

Secure access to the latest blockchains and their features is a core focus at Fireblocks, thereby empowering our customers to take advantage of new market opportunities and enhance their offerings. In the past year alone, we’ve added support for over twenty new blockchains, helping thousands of digital asset businesses to grow their revenue and expand their reach.

The main difference between Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and Open Authorization (OAuth) lies in their roles: SAML focuses on authentication, while OAuth is dedicated to authorization. Despite their differences, both SAML and OAuth are necessary for improving your organization’s overall security, allowing authorized users to verify their identities and access appropriate resources.

Being a security analyst today is hard. You’re constantly trying to protect your organization while feeling like attackers are always a step ahead of you. Every year, you seem to add more security technologies to your stack, yet you still find yourself facing tooling gaps. If only you had the ability to clearly compare different products and their capabilities, you think.

Come for the cybersecurity insights, stay for the raclette! Black Alps 2024 packed in Swiss charm with technical talks, a hacker's raclette dinner, and conference-logo chocolates. A perfect mix of threats, treats, and networking.

Industry 4.0 is bringing technological and innovative advantages to the manufacturing industry. AI, IoT, and RPA, for example, are transforming and streamlining the design, production and distribution of products. But these advancements also bring new challenges for manufacturers. This blog post highlights four of the most prominent ones—based on real experiences from Cato’s manufacturing customers—and how SASE helps tackle them head-on.