The field of AI has been around for decades, but its current surge is rewriting the rules at an accelerated rate. Fuelled by increased computational power and data availability, this AI boom brings with it opportunities and challenges. AI tools fuel innovation and growth by enabling businesses to analyse data, improve customer experiences, automate processes, and innovate products - at speed. Yet, as AI becomes more commonplace, concerns about misinformation and misuse arise. With businesses relying more on AI, the risk of unintentional data leaks by employees also goes up.

The world has changed. With the move to hybrid working, the rapid adoption of cloud, increased use of mobile and IoT devices, and more, the attack surface of every organization has expanded and businesses are finding it harder than ever to protect their networks and digital assets. This will, no doubt, be the central theme for this year's Cybersec Europe, taking place on May 29th and 30th in Brussels. The event aims to arm visitors with the know-how and solutions to make their businesses cyber resilient and secure their digital assets. But it is not just about securing assets. Traditional boundaries have blurred between businesses, suppliers, customers, workers, and home-life.

The Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS) developed by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) provides a robust framework for conducting penetration testing (pentesting) and security audits of web applications and infrastructure. In the evolving landscape of network security, with risks emerging in sophistication and frequency, maintaining a baseline level of compliant security procedures is highly recommended.

In today's escalating threat landscape, Security Operations Center (SOC) teams face a constant cat and mouse battle against adversaries as they try to stay one step ahead. This situation isn't helped by the fragmented tools; multiple data feeds and data siloes they must contend with. Likewise, with so many security vendors out there with different approaches and solutions, how do they know what cybersecurity solutions they should be investing in?

It might surprise you to know that more than 70 new vulnerabilities are published every day. And despite their risk-reducing value in helping SOC teams address these, vulnerability management solutions have drawbacks. Often, they only provide a snapshot of an organization's vulnerabilities at a point in time. In fact, owing to their nature, vulnerabilities identified today may not exist tomorrow, or they may appear and disappear intermittently. This leaves security teams scrambling to understand not only what the risk is, but how it affects them and where they should start first with any remediation.

Cyber criminals are relentlessly exploiting new technologies to improve their chances of success. As such, security professionals are feeling the pressure of keeping watch against these threats and trying to stay a step ahead of these criminals.

The creative industries have undergone a rapid shift thanks to digitisation. The emergence of cutting-edge cloud-based storage, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) tools has allowed creatives from all walks of life to innovate and enhance how they work while alleviating themselves from many arduous, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks.