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A resilient business continuity strategy is no longer optional – it’s the difference between surviving disruption and becoming a cautionary tale. According to ITIC’s 2024 Hourly Cost of Downtime survey, over 90% of large and mid-size enterprises report that a single hour of downtime costs upwards of $300,000. For 41% of those organizations, hourly costs exceed $1 million.

Users should be particularly wary of holiday-themed scams over the next few weeks, according to researchers at Malwarebytes. “Mobile-first shopping has become second nature, and during the holidays, it’s faster and more frantic than ever,” Malwarebytes says. “Fifty-five percent of people get a scam text message weekly, while 27% are targeted daily. Downloading new apps, checking delivery updates, or tapping limited-time offers all feel routine.

Cybersecurity has a people problem. Threats scale faster than teams. Every new customer, every new endpoint, and every new alert adds pressure. Efficiency is no longer a nice-to-have; it is the only way to maintain effective and sustainable protection. That is where endpoint security efficiency comes in. Endpoint security efficiency is the ability to deliver maximum protection with minimum operational effort, turning noise into clarity and alerts into meaningful incidents.

The software supply chain has come under assault once again with the resurgence of the Shai-Hulud npm worm—now significantly more advanced, more destructive, and far more widespread. Consequently, what is quickly being described as one of the most serious active threats to the npm ecosystem, the second wave of the Shai-Hulud campaign has compromised at least 600 npm packages, collectively downloaded more than 100 million times. One of the most alarming aspects of this campaign is its origin point.

AI is becoming a routine part of technical operations. Teams use models to support ticket triage, incident routing, knowledge retrieval, code analysis, and customer interactions. As these agents move closer to production workflows, the conversation about security becomes much more important. One of the most persistent and widely misunderstood issues is prompt injection. It is not a vulnerability that can be fully patched or trained away.

CrowdStrike is redefining how SOC teams turn cloud data into actionable intelligence by unifying speed, scale, and cost efficiency in one platform built for the cloud and AI era. Together with AWS, today we are announcing new integrations and consumption options designed to further simplify how customers secure and operationalize workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

See how Torq harnesses AI in your SOC to detect, prioritize, and respond to threats faster. Request a Demo If you’re a CISO, your holiday season is probably defined by two things: family time and anxiety. Cybercriminals don’t celebrate the holidays. They know your SOC staff is running on fumes, paid-time-off accruals, and maybe checking 3am Slack messages from a ski slope. They strike when you are weakest.

To build a reliable disaster-recovery foundation for your Mac, maintain regular disk clones alongside your Time Machine backups. Acronis True Image allows you to schedule automatic weekly clones that capture an exact, bootable replica of your entire system. Time Machine is excellent for incremental file recovery, but a full clone is what saves you when drives fail, systems refuse to boot, or critical data becomes corrupted.

Setting up a new PC at home and realizing you have to reinstall Windows, download all your apps, and redo your settings from scratch - more than once, can be incredibly tedious and time-consuming. Now imagine your PC is freshly set up with a clean version of Windows, all your drivers installed, your favorite apps ready to go, and your personal settings restored within 30-40 minutes. No stress, no waiting, just a perfectly working computer exactly how you like it.

Security can quickly become overwhelming for large organizations, with teams processing logs that are fragmented across cloud providers and SaaS platforms, staggering alert volumes, and the need to scale operations efficiently as environments grow. Datadog Cloud SIEM is designed to help teams manage this workload by centralizing insights, detecting threats faster, and prioritizing investigations with rich risk context.