Imagine you're responsible for the security of a bustling network, constantly under threat from bad actors looking to exploit any vulnerability. How do you keep up? Enter Snort, a powerful open-source tool that acts as your network’s watchdog, scanning for potential threats and alerting you when something seems off. In this guide, we'll break down how Snort works, focusing on the critical rules that make this tool effective at protecting your network.

Since the technological “birth” of Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT, many people are wondering what on earth they would do without AI in their lives. Since July 2024 ChatGPT has had 200 million weekly active users worldwide and attracted nearly 2.5 billion site visitors. However, ChatGPT is not the only AI out there.

Like the speed of light, phishing remains a reliable constant in the cybercrime universe, never going out of fashion with fraudsters, always reinventing itself to stay relevant. As part of that reinvention, phishing-related scams increasingly use search engine optimization (SEO) to drive malicious websites higher in search results, outranking legitimate sites whose brands they often impersonate.

In today's digital landscape, developers face mounting pressure to deliver secure applications within tight deadlines. But with faster release cycles, it becomes challenging to prioritize security. Security testing needs to work and scale within your DevOps speed and release frequency. Web applications are highly targeted assets, accounting for 40% of breaches within organizations, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.

Government entities were in the top five industries targeted by both ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) attacks in 2023, according to Arctic Wolf. Additionally, the FBI reported that government entities were the third most-targeted sector by ransomware in 2023, and Arctic Wolf’s own research saw the average ransom for government organizations top $1 million USD that same year. It’s clear that cyber threats are plentiful for these entities.

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a critical framework for protecting sensitive information within the defense industrial base (DIB). With the transition to CMMC 2.0, organizations that do business with the Department of Defense (DoD) must ensure they meet evolving cybersecurity standards.

Consider a modern software application as a constellation of cities that dot the landscape. These cities are components such as databases, authentication services, business logic engines, and more. Requests travel between components carrying data just as citizens travel between cities carrying their belongings. The highways that connect the cities on this map are your APIs. Cities get the most attention, often receiving the security and protection they need.

In a groundbreaking move, some of the world’s largest telecom operators—América Móvil, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Reliance Jio, Singtel, Telefonica, Telstra, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Vodafone—are partnering with Ericsson to launch a new venture aimed at transforming how network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are accessed and used.

In the fast-paced, large-scale world of digital business, establishing and managing an acceptable risk tolerance related to user identities — both human and machine — is a critical element of organizational security. At the forefront of this challenge is the need to strike the right balance between ensuring robust security and maintaining an environment that doesn’t impede innovation. After all, identities are the new perimeter in the cloud.

Chrome and Mozilla announced that they will stop trusting Entrust’s public TLS certificates issued after November 12, 2024 and December 1, 2024, respectively. This decision stems from concerns related to Entrust’s ability to meet the CA/Browser Forum’s requirements for a publicly trusted certificate authority (CA).