Insider threats pose a substantial risk, stemming from the potential misuse of access granted to employees, contractors, and third-party vendors. These threats, which can be both intentional and accidental, threaten the security of sensitive data and can significantly impact an organization’s financial stability, reputation, and operational efficiency.

Any company that processes payments knows the pain of an audit under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Although the original PCI DSS had gone through various updates, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) took feedback from the global payments industry to address evolving security needs.

In the past, we’ve talked a lot about the various FedRAMP guidelines required to reach either a single Authority to Operate or a generalized Provisional Authority to Operate. One thing that can be said to be common to all of these is that, in general, you’re talking about FedRAMP Moderate Impact Levels when you discuss these kinds of standards and certification processes. This is because around 80% of cloud service providers and offerings are classified as Moderate impact.

In today’s digital age, organizations are often crippled by a cybersecurity environment that is fragmented and complex. The jumble of security data — from intrusion detection systems to vulnerability management platforms and more — scattered and isolated across various tools, hinders a unified approach to security.

Since CrowdStrike Charlotte AI became generally available, we’ve seen firsthand how genAI can transform security operations, enabling teams to save hours across time-sensitive tasks and accelerate response to match the speed of modern adversaries.

GitGuardian's Confidence Scorer, a machine-learning model, is being rolled out. Learn how it advances secret detection on GitHub and drives impactful developer alerts.

As part of our ongoing partnership and investment in Microsoft, we have deepened our integration with Microsoft's Copilot within Microsoft Teams. This integration expands Copilot's capabilities by incorporating Egnyte as an additional data source. Microsoft 365 Copilot users can now derive valuable insights from documents stored in Egnyte, enhancing the usefulness of both Egnyte and the Microsoft Copilot solution for joint customers.

And we never were. From the very beginning, DataTrails has been committed to bringing the power of transparency and trust technologies to regular enterprises, making very new and complex technology accessible to those who need it most: the existing industries and companies who run our world.

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! There certainly has been an increasing number of VPN breaches of late, many of which are SSL based. Time to get rid?

Explore the essential role access control plays in cybersecurity, from the basics of how it works, components, and types to Zero Trust and best practices.