Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

We need to face a bitter truth: Most security awareness training out there just doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to. Year after year, companies worldwide pour billions into all sorts of training programs, posters, and click-through modules, yet phishing click incident rates stubbornly persist with no sign of them fading away any time soon. So, what are we missing? According to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report, the human element is involved in 62% of breaches.

Enterprise networks host a variety of devices, from workstations and VoIP phones to printers and IoT devices. Each group may have different network configuration requirements, making it increasingly difficult to maintain consistent settings as the network grows. Microsoft DHCP policies help address this challenge by evaluating attributes in DHCP requests and applying configurations based on defined conditions.

Somewhere in your fleet sits a laptop with a pristine, 100% compliance score. Not because it’s running the latest patches, but because it hasn’t talked to the server in three weeks, and a device that never checks in can’t exactly fail an audit, right? IT teams now manage more endpoints outside the office than inside it.

Imagine that your device data and ticket live in two separate rooms within the same building. Your device already has the performance metrics needed to explain the problem—yet, just to make sense of the ticket, your help desk tech still has to walk into the first room, find the data, and carry it back to the ticket room for analysis. This journey, repeated across every single ticket, is what’s quietly costing your IT team.

CAPTCHAs are designed to distinguish humans from automated systems. A user types distorted letters or clicks a few crosswalks, and in doing so proves there is a human behind the keyboard rather than a script. The whole idea rests on one assumption: A human, unlike a bot, will pause and think for a moment before acting. ClickFix takes that assumption and turns it into the attack itself. The fake verification screen does not ask the user to prove they are human by thinking.

A suspicious login, an unexpected privilege change, and a surge in file downloads may reach your security team as separate alerts. Understanding whether they belong to the same attack requires context. For your IT and security operations teams, connecting these signals takes time. If you're a CIO or CTO, that delay can increase your exposure to operational disruption and data loss. AI threat detection helps you analyze security activity, identify suspicious patterns, and prioritize investigations.

Top Tips is a weekly column where we explore practical ways to make technology work better for you. From improving productivity and strengthening digital security to discovering smarter ways to use everyday tools, we share simple, actionable insights to help you navigate the ever-evolving world of technology with confidence. AI is making online scams harder to recognize. From fake government announcements to convincing video calls, fraudsters are using synthetic content to exploit trust.

Enterprise cybersecurity is no longer confined to a fixed network perimeter. Security teams now have to protect users, devices, applications, cloud services, and third-party access across increasingly distributed environments. Attackers are also targeting identities, unpatched systems, exposed services, and gaps in visibility rather than relying on a single attack method. Cybersecurity therefore needs to be treated as an ongoing program, not a project that is completed once and revisited later.

Over time, we have become increasingly accustomed to using AI in our daily work. We send customer data to ChatGPT for analysis, share customer emails to draft responses, or ask Claude to generate code for enterprise applications. All of this can happen within an enterprise environment. This is what generative AI is designed to do. It creates content for us, from text and code to images and videos.

We've heard everyone talk about digital privacy, cybersecurity, and how we should set a strong password, but what most people fail to understand is the why. Why is it important to set a strong password? Why do we have to activate two-factor authentication? Why are software updates important? Even though we have a vague idea of why we need to do these things, we really don't know the future implications if we don't secure our digital information.