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Strengthening Cloud Security: API Posture Governance, Threat Detection, and Attack Chain Visibility with Salt Security and Wiz

In the current cloud-centric environment, strong API security is essential. Google's acquisition of Wiz underscores the urgent necessity for all-encompassing cloud security solutions. Organizations should focus on both governing API posture — ensuring secure configuration and deployment to reduce vulnerabilities and assure compliance — and on effective threat detection and response.

Top tips: Managing the risks of BYOAI at work

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re discussing the rise of AI tools in the workplace—and the growing risks around their unregulated use. It started quietly. A few employees using ChatGPT to rewrite emails. A project manager testing Notion AI to summarize meetings. A developer relying on GitHub Copilot to speed up code. Now?

Is AI a security asset or a cyber threat multiplier?

AI is transforming business operations, but it is also enabling sophisticated cyberattacks, automated exploits, and data privacy risks. From AI-generated phishing scams to deepfakes, organizations must stay ahead of these evolving threats. In this Netwrix webinar, dive into the complex interplay of AI and data security, with a focus on securing Microsoft 365 environments. Key Insights: Why Watch? Equip your organization with Netwrix’s expert strategies to counter AI-powered cyberattacks and protect sensitive data in an AI-driven world.

Forget IPs: using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic

With the rise of traffic from AI agents, what’s considered a bot is no longer clear-cut. There are some clearly malicious bots, like ones that DoS your site or do credential stuffing, and ones that most site owners do want to interact with their site, like the bot that indexes your site for a search engine, or ones that fetch RSS feeds.

Developer Leaks API Key for Private Tesla, SpaceX LLMs

In AI, as with so many advancing technologies, security often lags innovation. The xAI incident, during which a sensitive API key remained exposed for nearly two months, is a stark reminder of this disconnect. Such oversights not only jeopardize proprietary technologies but also highlight systemic vulnerabilities in API management. As more organizations integrate AI into their operations, ensuring robust API security has never been more critical.

AI Just Rewrote the Rules of BEC: Are Your Defenses Ready?

Today, the average phishing email that lands in your CEO's inbox is flawless. It uses perfect grammar, contains an intimate understanding of your organization’s current business landscape, and ends with an urgent, contextually relevant request. This isn't the work of a typical cybercriminal; it's the hallmark of generative AI being weaponized, transforming social engineering from a numbers game into a targeted strike.

Turn Shadow IT into a Strategic Advantage with a Business-Led IT Approach

90% of IT admins are worried about shadow IT, but here's the twist. 54% also believe employees use those apps to make their jobs easier. So what if, instead of fearing it, we saw shadow IT as a roadmap to a better workplace? This is business-led IT: collaboration, not control.

The MemcycoFM Show: Episode 1 - Disrupting AI-Powered Phishing, What CISOs Must Do Now

Welcome to the inaugural episode of our sparkling new podcast, The MemcycoFM Show. Your new go-to for everything digital deception, brandjacking, and real-time cybersecurity defense. In our first episode, two of our own Memcycans discuss why AI-powered phishing is changing the threat landscape and what CISOs must do to stay ahead. Powered by Memcyco’s mission to protect trust in the digital world.