Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Ransomware isn’t just a rising threat, it’s a daily reality for thousands of businesses around the world. These attacks are faster, smarter, and more damaging than ever, with global losses projected to reach $275 billion a year by 2031, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. Understanding how ransomware works is the first step toward stopping it. In this blog, we’ll break down how these attacks unfold and what you can do to defend your systems.

Data encryption is a way to protect your business data from unauthorized users even if they get access to your apps. Atlassian apps like Jira and Confluence store sensitive information like financial data, intellectual property, and customer details. By implementing Atlassian data encryption, all data sent to and from Atlassian apps gets encrypted, ensuring that it remains safe both in transit (moving between devices & servers) and at rest (stored on servers).

For years, the dominant threat against remote identity verification was the presentation attack: someone holding a printed photo up to a camera, wearing a mask, or playing a pre-recorded video on a phone screen. The industry responded with increasingly sophisticated anti-spoofing technology and vision-based detection models, and the standards to test their effectiveness followed. But many of today’s most sophisticated fraudsters don’t bother with the camera at all.

How do you ensure AI agents authenticate when they interact with your entire enterprise ecosystem when you aren’t there to watch their every move? Today, AI agents can do many things autonomously. They can update CRM records, create tickets, trigger workflows, modify data, and just about anything. The importance of authentication increases as they become more autonomous day by day. For years, API keys were the easy default for connecting applications to APIs.

Privileged accounts are the crown jewels of any IT environment. Admin credentials, root access, service accounts. These are what attackers go after first, because compromising one can hand them the entire organization. Forrester puts the number at 80% of security breaches involving privileged accounts. NIST frameworks, particularly SP 800-53, exist to make sure you're not leaving that door unlocked.

If you're shipping software these days, there's a good chance an agent is in your development workflow. In fact, 84% of software developers say they use AI to write code, open pull requests, and push to production regularly; that number is only expected to grow. Some teams have gone further: they're designing loops, or recurring systems that direct agents continuously, without a human writing a new prompt at each step.