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The EU AI Act: A roadmap for trustworthy AI

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize various sectors, ensuring it is developed and deployed in alignment with ethical standards and fundamental rights is critical for businesses that use it. The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), formally adopted on March 13, 2024, addresses this critical necessity by establishing a comprehensive and detailed legal framework for AI systems within the EU.

Staying Ahead of the Curve: Preparing for the PCI DSS 11.6 Requirement

In part one of our series on PCI DSS 4.0, we covered the updates in the latest version 4.0.1 and how to operationalize those changes. In this blog we are going to dig deeper into Requirement 11.6, how to interpret the nuance and automate the current guidance. Guidance that will become a mandate in March, 2025. Let’s start with what Requirement 11.6 is and why it’s so important.

A deep dive into investigating a complex denial-of-service attack

On April 19, 2024, Datadog’s US5 website (app.us5.datadoghq.com) started experiencing elevated error rates, though they were low enough that most of our users didn’t notice them. For the next few days, we worked around the clock responding to multiple episodes of this mysterious attack, which gradually unfolded as we investigated. We also implemented several measures to reduce the impact on our customers.

Enhanced Data Security and Regulatory Compliance With AWS Cloud + Protegrity

Protegrity is proud to partner with AWS, offering businesses like yours the integrations you need to start protecting data at the field level. With precision data protection through Protegrity and AWS, companies can start meeting regulatory compliance standards outlined with PCI DSS, GDPR, Nacha, or other compliance requirements. With regulatory compliance standards met, businesses can unlock opportunities in improved cloud migration, AI, advanced analytics, reputation management, and more. See how Protegrity’s data protection and partnership with AWS can take your organization to the next level.

What is Software Security? Importance, Techniques, Challenges and Best Practices

Software Security is the field mainly concerned with protecting software applications and systems against different threats or risks or the process of defending software applications or systems against various threats, risks, or attacks. It includes the various initiatives, methods, and safeguards to protect the software and data it processes from unauthorized access, alteration, or denial.

Applying a 'Three-Box Solution' to Identity Security Strategies

Physical and network barriers that once separated corporate environments from the outside world no longer exist. In this new technological age defined by hybrid, multi-cloud and SaaS, identities are the perimeter. Any one identity—workforce, IT, developer or machine—can become an attack path to an organization’s most valuable assets.

Phishing in Style: Microsoft Sway Abused to Deliver Quishing Attacks

In July 2024, Netskope Threat Labs tracked a 2,000-fold increase in traffic to phishing pages delivered through Microsoft Sway. The majority of the credential grabbing pages investigated used “Quishing,” a form of phishing that uses QR code to trick users into accessing a malicious website. The phishing campaigns targeted MS Office credentials, using documents to bait users into logging in.