Organizational cyber risk is notoriously difficult to quantify. Determining the impact of investments made by cyber security teams to reduce it is even tougher.

It all started when I began receiving multiple notifications on my Mac asking me to approve an authentication request. I ignored them at first, thinking it was a system error. But they kept popping up again and again, until they started interfering with my work. I was busy so I didn't stop to investigate. Then I received a phone call from a person claiming to be from my company's IT support team.

The National Information Assurance (NIA) Policy is a framework for offering organizations a foundation for information security management. It was designed and developed to aid organizations with the necessary steps to ensure information security, from assessing and classifying risk to choosing and implementing controls for mitigation.

Password rotation is the practice of changing and resetting passwords at regular intervals to minimize security risks and unauthorized access to private information. There are two main types of password rotation: manual and automatic. Manual password rotation refers to the process of changing a password yourself, while automatic password rotation relies on a system to generate a new password and replace the old one.

Tokenization projects are making significant strides in financial markets, and beyond, by making financial and real world assets more accessible. As the market evolves, institutions require a secure and scalable solution that they can easily build and deploy. In September 2023, Fireblocks bolstered its tokenization capabilities with the acquisition of BlockFold, to provide a complete service layer of advisory, token customization, orchestration, and distribution.

As we embrace October, it’s time not just to passively celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month – it’s time to actively engage in it. At Keeper Security, we believe that while awareness is important, the time has come to move swiftly and proactively against evolving cyber threats. With advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), cybercriminals are weaponizing sophisticated tools to launch targeted attacks at a massive scale.

Cloudflare One, our secure access service edge (SASE) platform, is introducing a new integration with Okta, the identity and access management (IAM) vendor, to share risk indicators in real-time and simplify how organizations can dynamically manage their security posture in response to changes across their environments.

Microsoft Copilot is a powerful AI assistant that can leverage Microsoft 365 (M365) data from across an organization to generate accurate and relevant insights. But some of that data should be under special lock: you do not want sensitive enterprise information to be used as part of a large language model (LLM). And the reality is that common misconfigurations—such as mislabeled files and overly broad user permissions—can lead to sensitive data exposure to unauthorized users.

New legislation is on the horizon in Australia that is set to change the way businesses deal with ransomware attacks. This law, not unlike the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA) in the US, aims to improve transparency when it comes to paying ransoms. There's no question that cybercrime is on the rise in the country.