As organizations are increasingly relying on web applications, securing them is vital. A Web Application Firewall (WAF) plays a critical role in protecting web apps by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between the application and the internet. Unlike traditional firewalls, which safeguard internal networks, a WAF focuses on protecting web applications from threats such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS) and other vulnerabilities.

In 2023, nearly 60% of incidents investigated by Arctic Wolf Incident Response involved a vulnerability that was two — or more — years old. That means the organization had 24-plus months to find and remediate the vulnerability before threat actors took advantage. Why do vulnerabilities remain persistent? There’s a number of reasons, not the least of which is that more of them pop up each day, creating a mountain of vulnerabilities that feels too difficult to summit for most businesses.

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Implementing a security incident and event management (SIEM) system can be complex and often requires considerable expertise. Teams need to configure a variety of data sources and ensure their SIEM can scale with growing data volumes. In addition, users need time to learn the system, which can delay value realization. And SIEMs also need continuous maintenance to ensure threat intelligence, detection rules, and integrations are up to date.

In today's digital landscape, cyber attacks are an ever-present threat, and they all ultimately target one thing: data. For most organizations, the challenge lies not only in protecting this data but also in understanding the full scope of what they have. Many organizations struggle to identify how much sensitive data they possess, where it resides, and who has access to it.

On September 11, 2024, GitLab released patches for a critical vulnerability affecting various versions of GitLab CE/EE, identified as CVE-2024-6678. This flaw allows a remote attacker to trigger a pipeline as an arbitrary user under specific conditions. A GitLab pipeline is a collection of automated processes that run in stages to build, test, and deploy code.

With Latin America facing an unprecedented increase in claims for unrecognized credit and debit card transactions, banks and card issuers are directly feeling the impact of fraud and cyber-attacks that are growing more sophisticated by the day. Recent regulations have been implemented across Latin America to address a variety of payment fraud, including an unprecedented surge in claims of unrecognized transactions involving debit, credit and financing products.

AI guardrails are vital for ensuring the safe and responsible use of AI/large language models (LLMs). However, focusing solely on single prompt-level checks can leave organizations vulnerable to sophisticated threats. Many company policy violations and security risks can be cleverly split across multiple, seemingly innocent queries. To effectively protect against these threats, a more comprehensive approach is needed — session-level monitoring.

Enterprise IAM is a framework of policies, processes, and technologies that enables organizations to manage and secure digital identities and control access to their resources.

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