Akamai is a cloud content delivery and security platform that helps organizations secure their applications, APIs, network access, and credentials that workforces and customers use every day. Akamai Zero Trust provides enhanced security for users, devices, and data across an organization by securing access to the corporate network, SaaS applications, email, and other resources.

Over the years, application vulnerability management has been vital to DevSecOps — which emphasizes shared security responsibility across teams. However, as development practices have evolved, security teams must learn how to adapt and meet developers within their existing workflows. For example, containerization, infrastructure as code (IaC) AI coding assistants, and increased reliance on third-party code are all commonplace in the typical development lifecycle.

Understanding vulnerability management is crucial for maintaining the security of your systems. It involves identifying, assessing, and mitigating vulnerabilities that exist within your network, applications, and infrastructure. By gaining a deep understanding of vulnerability management, you can effectively prioritize and address security risks. One key aspect of vulnerability management is conducting regular vulnerability assessments.

Cybercriminals are notorious for their opportunism. No situation is off limits: whether they exploit conflict and human suffering, blackmail vulnerable individuals by threatening to leak therapy notes, or even bring healthcare organizations to their knees, cybercriminals will stop at nothing to make a quick buck. Hurricane season is a particularly lucrative time of year for cybercriminals.

Researchers at Malwarebytes spotted a malvertising campaign that abused Google Ads to target people searching for Google Authenticator. If someone typed “Google Authenticator” into Google, the malicious ad would be at the top of the search results. The ad copied the website description from the real Google Authenticator, but would redirect users to a phishing site. “We can follow what happens when you click on the ad by monitoring web traffic,” the researchers explain.

The explosion of AI has ignited both excitement and apprehension across various industries. While AI is undeniably having a positive impact on engineering and customer service teams, cybersecurity and IT practitioners remain cautious. Concerns about data privacy, the inflexibility of disparate tools, and the sensitive nature of many mission-critical workflows—which, more often than not, require some level of human oversight—fuel a deep mistrust of LLMs by these teams.

We are thrilled to announce the new Snyk Analytics for Snowflake, allowing Snyk customers to seamlessly access and analyze Snyk’s data from their Snowflake account.

The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) has warned that threat actors are increasingly using AI to enhance phishing and other social engineering attacks, Channel News Asia reports. The CSA’s report found that cybercriminals are selling tools that automate these attacks, allowing unskilled threat actors to launch sophisticated attacks.

This week, I’m excited to announce Cloud Enrichment for AWS, GCP, and Azure. These enhancements are designed to accelerate incident response and unlock threat hunting capabilities by automatically combining the insights of your cloud network with the native control plane data from your cloud service provider.

As noted in the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for API Protection“API security governance is an emerging capability. It allows the administrator of the tool to define and enforce security policies. Unlike posture management, this is a top-down enforcement. It also allows for compliance reports for specific regulations to be generated automatically.” This capability is becoming increasingly important as organizations face a constantly evolving threat landscape.