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The world of payments is having its “Henry Ford” moment. Traditional organizations in the industry, from payment service providers (PSPs) to banks, are still using the equivalent of horses for settlement and cross-border transactions. In contrast, innovative startups and certain forward-looking incumbents have embraced this industry’s Model T – blockchain technology. The results that payments providers exploring blockchain have reported thus far can’t be ignored.

Internxt is thrilled to announce we have released a new feature that our users have requested: WebDAV support! Now, with a WebDAV server, you can get even more out of your Internxt membership, such as file management, remote access, and the same emphasis on security implemented throughout the entire product suite. To learn more about downloading the Internxt CLI and using WebDAV, visit our help center article.

We’re thrilled to announce that Nightfall was selected as the “Data Security Solution of the Year” in the 2024 Data Breakthrough Awards. With enterprises scrambling to stay on the cutting edge of innovation, it’s all too easy to lose sight of data stewardship. In addition to SaaS apps, email, and endpoints, now enterprises must also safeguard their generative AI (GenAI) applications, including both custom and third-party GenAI tools.

Account takeover (ATO) fraud poses a serious and personal threat, especially when it compromises something as critical as your bank account. Imagine the shock and helplessness of discovering you’re suddenly barred from accessing your own financial resources. This violation isn’t just about unauthorized transactions or financial losses; it’s a profound breach of your privacy.

At Bitsight, part of the core work of the Vulnerability Research team is to analyze new high-profile vulnerabilities and ensure we come up with ways to detect, at an internet-wide scale, who is affected by these. Sometimes - more often than not - the direct exploitation of these vulnerabilities is significantly intrusive, and thus we can not load a direct port of the publicly available Proofs-of-Concept onto our internet scanning infrastructure.

This is the final post in a series about shadow IT. In this series, we’ve detailed how and why teams use unapproved apps and devices, and cybersecurity approaches for securely managing it. For a complete overview of the topics discussed in this series, download Managing the unmanageable: How shadow IT exists across every team – and how to wrangle it.

‍ “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” ‍ In the earliest days of cyber risk management, chief information security officers (CISOs) generally relied on matrices and other subjective risk assessments for strategic planning.

Understanding your enterprise risk posture and the metrics that create it plays a pivotal role in safeguarding your organization's assets, ensuring operational continuity, and facilitating strategic decision making.

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have become the backbone of many modern applications, and indeed the foundation of some businesses services. APIs enable seamless communication between applications, services and systems, allowing organisations to innovate, collaborate and deliver value to their customers. However, as reliance on APIs grows, so does the need for robust security measures to protect these critical digital assets from potential threats.

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