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Why Security Awareness Training Is Effective in Reducing Cybersecurity Risk

Security awareness training (SAT) works! A well-designed security awareness training campaign will significantly reduce cybersecurity risk. We can safely state that from over 13 years of experience with tens of thousands of customer organizations and hundreds of millions of customer interactions. We have the data to prove it. The average new customer comes to us with about a third of their workforce proven to click on any phishing email.

What is Vulnerability Assessment?

Each day there are more and more cyber attacks and threats occurring, with those looking to exploit your IT systems finding various different methods to infiltrate your IT infrastructure. This means it's more vital than ever that you limit the vulnerabilities of your IT infrastructure and guarantee its security. In regards to this, a viable solution available to you is vulnerability assessment.

Understanding precision, recall, and false discovery in machine learning models

There are various ways to measure any given machine learning (ML) model’s ability to produce correct predictions, depending on the task that the system performs. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is one such task, in which a model identifies spans of sensitive data within a document. Nightfall uses NER models extensively to detect sensitive data across cloud apps like Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Jira, ChatGPT, and more.

EP 41 - Cyber Hygiene and the Identity Imperative

Our guest today is Rita Gurevich, the CEO and Founder of SPHERE, an identity hygiene platform. Gurevich joins host David Puner to explore the challenges and dynamics surrounding identity and cyber hygiene in today’s cybersecurity landscape. The conversation begins by addressing the accelerated pace at which cyber controls and identity hygiene requirements are evolving, emphasizing the critical role they play in cybersecurity strategies.

JetBrains TeamCity Vulnerability Exploit: SafeBreach Coverage for US-CERT Alert (AA23-347A)

On December 13th, The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Polish Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW), CERT Polska (CERT.PL), and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have issued an urgent advisory about the ongoing exploit of CVE-2023-42793 by Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) threat actors.

Ledger Connect Attack: What You Need to Know

On December 14, 2023, the Ledger Connect Kit was compromised, allowing attackers to drain users’ wallets on dozens of decentralized apps. Fireblocks’ customers were not impacted by the attack. Fireblocks dApp Protection, the latest security feature in our DeFi solution, detected and prevented customers from unknowingly interacting with the impacted dApps.

How To Protect an Enterprise Database From Privilege Abuse

Organizations can protect their enterprise database from privilege abuse by implementing the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP), following a zero-trust security approach and investing in a Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution. Continue reading to learn what privilege abuse is, the risks of privilege abuse in an organization and how to prevent it.

How Does a PAM Solution Help Organizations Meet CIP Cyber Security Standards?

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) standards are a comprehensive set of requirements that ensure the security and reliability of the North American power grid. These standards address both the physical security and cybersecurity of the bulk electric system, mandating measures to protect critical assets from potential threats.