In April 2024, a significant breach rattled the financial sector as HSBC and Barclays, two prominent banking institutions, fell victim to a data breach. The breach occurred within the infrastructure of a direct contractor working for both banks, sending shockwaves through the industry and raising concerns about the security of sensitive financial data.

In a move to harness the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) while mitigating associated risks, the Executive Office of the President has issued a landmark memorandum directing federal agencies to advance AI governance, innovation, and risk management. Spearheaded by Shalanda D. Young, the memorandum underscores the importance of responsible AI development in safeguarding the rights and safety of the public.

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Today, May 15, 2024, the FBI and DOJ, working alongside international partners like the NCA and New Zealand Police, have taken control of one of the major dark web forums, BreachForums. This action comes shortly after a significant data leak from the Europol portal surfaced on the forum.

In part 1 of this series, we covered a lot of ground including the three converging trends that point to the need for an attack surface management (ASM) solution – the growing attack surface, attackers having more opportunities and tools to infiltrate the attack surface, and manual SecOps being slow and ineffective. We also outlined the key features you should be looking for when selecting an ASM tool.

Continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) is a formal program to manage cyber risk that allows organizations to enhance and optimize their overall cybersecurity posture. As outlined by Gartner, CTEM offers a cyclical approach to finding and mitigating threat exposure—which is the accessibility and exploitability of digital and physical assets—in an ongoing, proactive, and prioritized way.

Addressing the security intricacies of sophisticated automation frameworks, in our case the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) environments, is always challenging. The inherent complexity of such environments, characterized by the multitude of components that are each performing distinct tasks, necessitates a dynamic and adaptable rule engine to ensure the security of our pipelines.

Splunk’s latest User Behavior Analytics (UBA) product update, version 5.4.0, brings enhancements and new features designed to streamline operations and improve threat detection accuracy. Let’s see what’s new!

The manufacturing landscape is undergoing a digital revolution, driven significantly by Industrial IoT (IIoT), cloud adoption, and remote access needs. These advancements enable manufacturing companies to unlock efficiency gains, optimize operations, and enhance collaboration, but they also introduce a raft of new cybersecurity challenges. Legacy equipment and complex network setups have always made it difficult to secure manufacturing environments.

As we navigate through an era increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence, the theme of RSAC 2024, “The Art of the Possible,” couldn’t be more apt. This year, Zenity, a trailblazer in securing and governing business productivity tools like Copilot for M365, Power Platform, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, highlighted the vast possibilities—and the associated risks—of democratized technology and software development.