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Making the Most of Rule-Based Intrusion Detections

Think back to being in high school and wanting to leave the room during class. Your teacher would give you a hall pass to show anyone monitoring the halls that you had permission to walk around. Your behavior, walking around during the class period, was suspect unless you followed the rule, getting a hall pass. For security teams, rule-based intrusion detections are the hall monitors that look for behaviors that indicate a problem.

Transform the audit experience with Vanta

Audit firms today face pressure to deliver faster, more accurate audits while meeting rising client expectations. Clients often operate with complex tech stacks, outdated evidence-gathering workflows, multiple frameworks, and numerous workspaces—all of which auditors must manage alongside their own established tools and processes.

Google Report Outlines the Latest Scam Trends

Researchers at Google have published a report on the latest scam trends, noting an increase in travel-themed scams targeting people preparing for their summer vacations. “Ahead of the summer vacation season, our teams have observed a spike in travel scams,” the researchers write. “Fake travel websites lure users into booking travel with a promise of ‘too good to be true’ prices, experiences, or discounts.

Protect Yourself: Vishing Attacks Are Growing More Sophisticated

Researchers at Google’s Mandiant have published a report on voice phishing (vishing) attacks, noting that these attacks have served as initial access points for recent waves of ransomware incidents. Threat actors often perform reconnaissance before launching social engineering attacks, collecting publicly available information in order to craft tailored, realistic scenarios.

Brace Yourselves: The Game-Changing Impact of India's DPDP Act, 2023

India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 is a turning point in how personal data is regulated, managed, and protected across the country. As every industry becomes more digital, this law makes it clear who owns data and who must protect it. The Act introduces a legal imperative and an operational opportunity for SOC managers, CISOs, DPOs, and IT security teams to revisit how data is collected, stored, shared, and protected.

Generative AI Is Moving Fast. Are Your Security Practices Keeping Up?

We are in the middle of an AI gold rush. Generative AI (Gen AI) has exploded from research labs into everyday business workflows at breakneck speed. Marketing, software development, customer support, HR, companies across industries deploy Gen AI tools to boost efficiency, automate tasks, and gain an edge. But security trails behind. In the rush to innovate, organizations chase speed and visibility, leaving risk management behind.

This message will self-decrypt in 5 years: why post-quantum prep starts now

This blog is the first part of a two-part series on post-quantum cryptography (PQC). In this piece, we explore why quantum threats are no longer theoretical. In Part 2, we’ll cover practical steps for building post-quantum readiness. Security leaders have become digital-first responders. They perform triage on multiple emergencies every day, except with fewer thanks and more acronyms.