If you’ve spent any length of time reading about the internationally accepted security framework laid out in ISO 27001, you’ve likely come across the term ISMS or Information Security Management System. You may wonder, though; what is the ISMS specifically, how do you set one up, and what does it do for your business? Let’s talk about it.

Learn about the impact of mean time to detect (MTTD) on incident response effectiveness.

Imagine the worst-case scenario: a healthcare security leader receives a call in the dead of night, informing them that their network has been breached and all systems are down. Even a minor data breach in the healthcare sector can jeopardize patients’ personal health information (PHI), leading to identity theft, medical fraud, financial loss, or even the disruption of critical, life-saving medical services.

New analysis of blockchain activity shows scammers are needing less time to obtain crypto payments and are seeing higher payoffs per scam. I continue to repeatedly cover breakdowns of cybercrime activity from the folks at Chainalysis because it represents an unbiased view that some security vendors may inherently have (because their data is based on what their solutions do and don’t discover).

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, security vulnerabilities are constant concerns for organizations that rely on cloud-based services and distributed systems. Recently, GitLab addressed a critical security flaw that affected both its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). This flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-45409, has been categorized as a critical vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10.0, the highest possible score, signifying its severity.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re looking at four ways you can minimize your attack surface. Organizational IT infrastructure is now more spread out, multi-layered, and complex than ever.

In their capacity as a regulator, the Portuguese National Cybersecurity Centre (CNCS) is at the forefront of adapting to NIS2 requirements and ensuring that entities under their purview are compliant. They provide strategic oversight and support for organisations navigating the complexities of the new directive, which introduces stricter standards for risk management, incident response, and supply chain security.

Today, we are excited to announce a significant milestone in our journey to secure enterprise copilots and low-code development platforms by launching our new product; the Zenity AI Trust Layer. This new offering provides full security and governance control for enterprise copilots, and in the first step is focused on Microsoft 365 Copilot. The use of enterprise copilots is undeniably a story in low-code application development.