The 2024 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Financial Services Sector underscores the escalating threat landscape facing the industry. Deepfakes, highly realistic synthetic media, and the increasing adoption of cryptocurrencies are providing cybercriminals with new avenues to compromise financial institutions. These emerging threats are augmenting the already prevalent ransomware and phishing campaigns, creating a complex and dynamic threat environment.

Achieving Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act compliance is becoming more difficult. While the Act is primarily a financial reporting regulation, it requires all publicly traded companies operating in the United States to maintain the integrity, accuracy, and reliability of financial reporting, which those organizations can only achieve through robust cybersecurity measures. As such, an effective cybersecurity strategy is crucial for achieving SOX compliance.

Automate’s orchestration capabilities help IT and security organizations scale, gain efficiencies, and reduce errors with complex manual and repetitive tasks.

This week, during LandForces 2024 archTIS announced the launch of archTIS Trusted Data Integration, a new lightweight, fast, and agile solution for integrating, securing, and governing sensitive and classified structured data from multiple sources at scale and speed.

Key insights and defense strategies were shared at Blue Team Con 2024 in Chicago, where defenders gathered to advance their skills for fighting today’s toughest threats.

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups have long been key players in global cyber espionage, and in 2024, a Chinese-linked threat cluster known as "Crimson Palace" continues to demonstrate its effectiveness. This collective of three distinct APT units has managed to breach multiple organizations across Asia, including a prominent government agency in Southeast Asia, proving their ability to evade detection and extract sensitive information.

Almost a decade after their emergence, Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) finally went mainstream in 2024. Their MO? To compete with, and in some cases replace native apps. To do this, PWAs promise to combine the best features of web and native mobile apps, delivering seamless, reliable, and engaging experiences across all devices and platforms. Cross-platform compatibility, direct distribution, cost and maintenance advantages – it all sounds very alluring.