Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

With the new year in swing, we’re excited to announce that Elastic® 8.12 is now available! This release supports Elastic Security’s mission to redefine security operations by pushing the boundaries of what constitutes a SIEM. Our team is prioritized on elevating your SOC with intelligent, AI powered analytics and the 8.12 release is another step toward this reality.

In the rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, organizations face an ever-increasing barrage of threats. Traditional vulnerability management, while foundational, often falls short in proactively and continuously identifying and mitigating threats. This necessitates a paradigm shift towards Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), a more dynamic approach that aligns with the complexities of today’s digital environments.

Cloud adoption is exploding, and rightfully so. Businesses are seeing the value of improved agility and efficiency when leveraging public cloud, resulting in 60% of all corporate data globally being stored in the cloud in 2022. As such, securing the cloud is becoming an increasingly important skill for defensive security teams, ergo red teaming the cloud is becoming increasingly important for us offensive security teams too.

As of 2023, Microsoft Office 365 is utilized by over a million companies globally, according to a recent Statista report. It has become an indispensable tool for organizations as they adapt to hybrid workforces and a global economy, leveraging its collaborative power and the need for a robust data protection strategy. At the core of Microsoft 365’s security framework lies the Shared Responsibility Model, delineating the responsibilities of Microsoft and organizations using their services.

Conducting business, no matter in which industry, is innately risky. Historically, some of the primary drivers of this business risk included natural disasters, hardware and inventory theft, legal and compliance regulations, and economic downturns. However, in the midst of the digital age, cyber threats loom as one of the most prominent forms of organizational uncertainty, housing the potential to cause trillions of dollars in damages.

What do you get when you combine artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity? If you answered with faster threat detection, quicker response times and improved security measures... you're only partially correct. Here's why.

Here at Rubrik, few things excite us more than knowing that the work we do enables a smoother functioning of our governments. Government organizations have an important duty to defend our nation’s critical institutions and essential infrastructure against threat actors—while operating with limited budgets and limited resources. Rubrik has a long history of securing public sector institutions. We have relentlessly focused on developing products that ensure rapid and confident cyber recovery.

With the cybersecurity landscape constantly evolving, discussing cybersecurity trends for 2024 can feel like trying to predict the unpredictable. But amid all the uncertainty, trading ideas about the future of security can help us better understand how to prepare for the months ahead. Here, our co-founders Thomas Kinsella and Eoin Hinchy share five cybersecurity predictions for 2024, including insights on AI's role in security, the ever-changing role of the CISO, and more.

Today, we’re thrilled to share that Salt has launched extended capabilities to our powerful platform, adding yet another industry-first technical advancement to our trophy case! (full announcement here.) Since its founding, Salt’s been on a mission to create a platform that can detect, prioritize and solve the most complex API security challenges and risks.

2023 was a tumultuous year that drove technology transformations at a pace unknown. The industry saw an accelerated and unrivaled pace of technology adoption, persistent yet evolving challenges and unparalleled market dynamics around the world. The following are the top three trends from last year that influenced my thinking as a CIO at the top of 2024.