ChatGPT impresses everyone with its writing capabilities; however, its proficiency in understanding and generating human-like text has inadvertently empowered threat actors to produce realistic and error-free phishing emails, which can be challenging to detect. The use of ChatGPT in cyberattacks poses a significant threat, particularly for attackers whose first language isn’t English. This tool helps them overcome language barriers, enabling the creation of more convincing phishing content.

On May 9, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) officially adopted new Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) requirements for Internal Network Security Monitoring (INSM). This is one of the last steps before Federal regulators make it an official standard for utilities and the electrical power grid industry. What does it mean? Compliance for CIP-015-1 is coming to your utility. Utilities will need monitoring tools with deep and wide asset intelligence and network control.

On May 27, 2024, Check Point released hot fixes for an information disclosure vulnerability being leveraged by threat actors to target Check Point VPNs. This vulnerability was labeled as CVE-2024-24919 and is rated as high severity, as a remote threat actor can exploit the vulnerability to access information on Gateways connected to the Internet, with IPSec VPN, Remote Access VPN or Mobile Access enabled.

We’re excited to announce that BastionZero, a Zero Trust infrastructure access platform, has joined Cloudflare. This acquisition extends our Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) flows with native access management for infrastructure like servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases.

The 2024 Red Hat Summit in Denver was a whirlwind of innovation, collaboration, and networking. The show kicked off with a great turnout for the Community and Red Hat OpenShift Days. The focus here was on Case Studies from and by End Users with production deployments of OpenShift sharing their use cases, insights into their workloads and lessons learned along the way.

Eleven years ago, the White House issued Executive Order 13636, which tasked the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with the creation of a cybersecurity framework (CSF) that would help better protect the nation’s critical infrastructure.