Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we have discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we are exploring the modern cyberthreat landscape and how crucial it is to keep up with cybercriminals’ evolving tactics and safeguard ourselves from them. The modern cyberthreat landscape is an ever-evolving and complex environment that poses significant risks to organizations of all sizes.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. For the final week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re playing myth-busters and debunking three popular misconceptions about Zero Trust. Cyberthreats are becoming more and more brazen over time, and let’s face it—without a strong Zero Trust framework, your organization doesn’t have a dog in the fight.

The landscape of cyberthreats is continuously evolving, and to keep pace organizations employ robust network security strategies. This involves creating, executing, and maintaining a set of guidelines, or network security policies, on how the organization’s network should be protected from external threats. This process is termed network security policy management (NSPM) and it’s instrumental in maintaining the integrity of the network.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list out ways to explore these trends. This week we’re looking at ways to defend the digital perimeter to strengthen the overall security of an organization.

Many enterprises have a variety of aspects that make up their networks, like Windows Defender Firewall, GPOs, and an AD infrastructure. Vulnerabilities in any part of the network can have a domino effect; once the first domino falls, the entire trail will go down with it, which can cause irrevocable damage to your network.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list out ways to explore these trends. This week we’re looking at five ways you can protect your IT infrastructure against ransomware attacks. Every year, the month of October is observed as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This year, we wanted to dedicate a special entry in our top tips column to one of the fastest-growing digital economies in the world: the Middle East.

Back in the 20th century, cyberattacks were harder to execute because most computers were not networked, the internet wasn’t really a thing, only a few groups of people had access to computers, and more importantly, there wasn’t any big incentive to attack.

We are delighted to announce that ManageEngine PAM360 will now utilize Zoho Flow’s extensive product gallery to automate privileged access security workflows for more than 850 business applications and enterprise IT management tools.

The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) has decided its’ about time to call for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s first data protection law. The Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), originally included a public consultation component when it was launched by SDAIA in late 2022. Since then, the public consultation was withdrawn, and the draft version of the data protection law augmenting PDPL was issued.