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How to Build a Cyber Security Culture?

Cybersecurity is no longer an awareness issue but a strategic execution problem. In 2023, 96% of CEOs acknowledged cybersecurity’s importance for organizational growth, stability, and competitiveness, but only 15% had dedicated board meetings to discuss cybersecurity issues. This disconnect between awareness and action stems primarily from difficulty quantifying cybersecurity goals, investments, and return on investment (ROI), making it easier to overlook or, at best, an afterthought.

BEC Scams Have Caused $55 Billion in Losses Over the Past Ten Years

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks have caused more than $55 billion in losses between 2013 and 2023, according to an advisory from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). “The BEC scam continues to target small local businesses to larger corporations, and personal transactions while evolving in their techniques to access those business or personal accounts,” the FBI says.

Tackling the Unique Cybersecurity Challenges of Online Learning Platforms

Online learning has expanded access to education across all levels. However, as beneficial as these platforms can be, they pose unique cybersecurity risks. Securing e-learning platforms will become increasingly crucial as more school systems embrace this technology.

Navigating Git History

In today’s software development, Git usually stands as a “go-to” for DevOps projects. It allows teams of developers to collaborate and contribute on non-linear projects, go back to any point in time and undo, as well as, redo changes whenever they need. In this article, we will go over important commands to help you navigate your commit history.

NCSC sets out plans to launch Advanced Cyber Defence 2.0

An initiative of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) since 2017, the Active Cyber Defence (ACD) programme has provided a range of free cyber security tools and services to enable eligible public sector organisations to address high-volume commodity attacks. Following on from its success, the NCSC has announced plans to launch a new version of ACD, aimed at extending its benefits to businesses.

Want to avoid a data breach? Employ secrets detection

As a software developer, ensuring the security of your applications is paramount. A crucial part of this task involves managing secrets and employing a secrets detection tool. In this context, secrets refer to sensitive data such as API keys, database credentials, encryption keys, and other confidential information. Their unauthorized access or exposure can lead to catastrophic consequences, including data breaches and severe business losses.

Mitigating Alert Fatigue in SecOps Teams

Security Operations Teams (SOCs) today are under attack by the very mechanisms meant to help them. A recent industry study revealed a few startling facts: And unsurprisingly, the vast majority (80%) say that manual processes are slowing them down. These stats lay out both the problem with and solution to alert fatigue today: too many alerts, too many bad ones, and not enough streamlined processes helping SOCs get ahead of the problem.

Navigating the Cloud Chaos: 2024's Top Threats Revealed

Misconfigurations (when cloud computing assets are set up incorrectly, leaving them vulnerable to unauthorized access, data breaches, and operational disruptions) and inadequate change control top the list of cloud security threats in 2024, rising from third place the year before. It's clear that the transition to cloud computing has amplified the challenges of configuration management, making it critical for entities to adopt cloud-specific configurations.