Tag: awareness
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A scorecard for cyber and risk culture
Tags: access, automation, awareness, breach, business, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, finance, governance, identity, jobs, metric, mitigation, phishing, risk, service, strategy, tool, trainingWhen someone asks for an exception.When a change goes in late.When an alert fires at 2 a.m.When a junior analyst spots something odd and wonders if it’s worth escalating.When an executive wants speed, and the team wants safety. Ownership means people act like the risk is partly theirs. They don’t outsource judgment to “security.” They…
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When Payment Data Becomes the Weakest Link
Tags: access, awareness, breach, cloud, compliance, container, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, fraud, least-privilege, PCI, radius, risk, service, software, strategy, threatWhen Payment Data Becomes the Weakest Link madhav Thu, 02/26/2026 – 10:56 Most cybersecurity incidents don’t begin with an attack. They begin with a design decision. Four people experienced that reality in the same week. Different roles. Different systems. One shared outcome. Cybersecurity Karen Kelvie – Product Marketing, Data Protection More About This Author >…
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The farmers and the mercenaries: Rethinking the ‘human layer’ in security
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, ciso, control, cybersecurity, defense, detection, intelligence, jobs, monitoring, risk, soc, threat, tool, trainingThe evidence is already in: This isn’t a theoretical complaint, it shows up in research on how real SOCs work. A study by the University of Oxford based on surveys and interviews with SOC practitioners found they “confirmed the high” false-positive rates of tools in use, and that many “false positives” are actually benign triggers…
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Steaelite RAT combines data theft and ransomware management capability in one tool
Tags: access, android, attack, authentication, awareness, business, corporate, credentials, crypto, cybercrime, data, ddos, defense, encryption, endpoint, extortion, infection, infosec, malware, mobile, monitoring, password, phishing, ransomware, rat, remote-code-execution, theft, threat, tool, training, windowsCSO that this isn’t the most sophisticated RAT he’s seen. “The novel aspect here,” he said, “is the convergence. Steaelite bundles remote access, credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and ransomware (currently in development) in a single package.” Traditionally, he explained, these capabilities have occupied different parts of the cybercrime toolchain, but Steaelite unifies the functions, giving…
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Boards don’t need cyber metrics, they need risk signals
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, automation, awareness, business, ciso, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, framework, governance, intelligence, metric, phishing, riskThe seduction of counting: Even when metrics are not too technical and align with business impact, another problem emerges: What gets counted can crowd out what matters.Wendy Nather, a longtime CISO who is now an advisor at EPSD, cautions against equating measurement with understanding. “When you are reporting to the board, there are some things…
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Autonomer KI-Agent für das Human-Risk-Management
KnowBe4 führt AIDA-Orchestration ein. Dabei handelt es sich um den achten KI-gestützten Agenten in der KnowBe4-Suite, bekannt als AIDA (Artificial-Intelligence-Defense-Agents). Der AIDA-Orchestration-Agent ist ein autonomes, KI-gestütztes System für das Human-Risk-Management. Er erstellt, plant und verwaltet unabhängig personalisierte Phishing-Sicherheitstests und Security-Awareness-Trainings auf Benutzerebene, die sich dynamisch an das Risikoprofil jeder Person anpassen. Dadurch entfallen manuelle Kampagnen,…
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TDL 016 – Speed, Risk, and Responsibility in the Age of AI – Rafael Ramirez
Tags: access, ai, antivirus, automation, awareness, business, ciso, cloud, control, country, cyber, data, defense, detection, dns, firewall, governance, government, hacker, ibm, incident response, intelligence, Internet, law, linkedin, login, mfa, microsoft, network, risk, saas, service, skills, software, startup, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustSummary In a recent episode of The Defenders Log, host David Redekop sat down with cyber security expert Rafael Ramirez to navigate the rapidly shifting landscape of AI security. As we move deeper into 2026, the duo explored how artificial intelligence has evolved from simple chatbots into powerful, autonomous “agentic” systems. The Double-Edged Sword of…
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Hackers can turn Grok, Copilot into covert commandcontrol channels, researchers warn
Tags: ai, automation, awareness, cloud, control, detection, framework, governance, hacker, identity, monitoring, network, risk, saas, toolSteps to take: Security leaders should not respond by blocking AI outright, analysts said, but by applying the same governance discipline used for other high-risk SaaS platforms.Varkey recommended starting with a comprehensive inventory of all AI tools in use and establishing a clear policy framework for approving and enabling them.Organizations should also implement AI-specific traffic…
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The new paradigm for raising up secure software engineers
Tags: ai, application-security, awareness, ceo, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, data, governance, login, risk, skills, software, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityThreat modeling as a core competency: This system-level thinking should also elevate the need for greater developer fluency in threat modeling, says Yasar. He notes that threat modeling has historically been difficult for product security and engineering teams to operationalize at scale. One of the longstanding barriers to practical threat modeling was the knowledge required…
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CISO Julie Chatman offers insights for you to take control of your security leadership role
Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, deep-fake, email, finance, firewall, government, healthcare, infrastructure, law, military, office, phishing, risk, service, skills, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, updateFirst, the hopes-and-dreams budget: What would it take to close all the known gaps and operate proactively?Second, the could-live-with-this budget: What’s realistic and gets you to acceptable risk levels?Third, the I-think-I’m-going-to-resign budget: Because you can see a breach coming and you don’t want your name attached to it.You probably won’t end up at that last…
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CISO Julie Chatman offers insights for you to take control of your security leadership role
Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, deep-fake, email, finance, firewall, government, healthcare, infrastructure, law, military, office, phishing, risk, service, skills, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, updateFirst, the hopes-and-dreams budget: What would it take to close all the known gaps and operate proactively?Second, the could-live-with-this budget: What’s realistic and gets you to acceptable risk levels?Third, the I-think-I’m-going-to-resign budget: Because you can see a breach coming and you don’t want your name attached to it.You probably won’t end up at that last…
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CISO Julie Chatman wants to help you take control of your security leadership role
Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, deep-fake, email, finance, firewall, government, healthcare, infrastructure, law, military, office, phishing, risk, service, skills, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, updateFirst, the hopes-and-dreams budget: What would it take to close all the known gaps and operate proactively?Second, the could-live-with-this budget: What’s realistic and gets you to acceptable risk levels?Third, the I-think-I’m-going-to-resign budget: Because you can see a breach coming and you don’t want your name attached to it.You probably won’t end up at that last…
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India’s E-Rupee Leads the Secure Adoption of CBDCs
Futurex’s Ruchin Kumar on CBDC Adoption and HSM Security for Transactions. CBDCs are expanding, with 90% of central banks exploring them. India’s e-rupee pilot shows strong adoption, backed by RBI standards and HSM-secure transactions. Ruchin Kumar, VP for South Asia at Futurex, underscores awareness, interoperability and encryption as keys to CBDC success and PQC readiness.…
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India’s E-Rupee Leads the Secure Adoption of CBDCs
Futurex’s Ruchin Kumar on CBDC Adoption and HSM Security for Transactions. CBDCs are expanding, with 90% of central banks exploring them. India’s e-rupee pilot shows strong adoption, backed by RBI standards and HSM-secure transactions. Ruchin Kumar, VP for South Asia at Futurex, underscores awareness, interoperability and encryption as keys to CBDC success and PQC readiness.…
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Cybersecurity Awareness
Cybersecurity Awareness plays a critical role in today’s highly interconnected digital environment. Organizations allocate significant resources to advanced security technologies such as firewalls, endpoint detection solutions, cloud security frameworks, and AI-powered threat monitoring systems. However, despite these sophisticated defenses, attackers continue to breach organizations”, frequently by targeting the weakest point in the security architecture: This…
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Cybersecurity Awareness
Cybersecurity Awareness plays a critical role in today’s highly interconnected digital environment. Organizations allocate significant resources to advanced security technologies such as firewalls, endpoint detection solutions, cloud security frameworks, and AI-powered threat monitoring systems. However, despite these sophisticated defenses, attackers continue to breach organizations”, frequently by targeting the weakest point in the security architecture: This…
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Cybersecurity Awareness
Cybersecurity Awareness plays a critical role in today’s highly interconnected digital environment. Organizations allocate significant resources to advanced security technologies such as firewalls, endpoint detection solutions, cloud security frameworks, and AI-powered threat monitoring systems. However, despite these sophisticated defenses, attackers continue to breach organizations”, frequently by targeting the weakest point in the security architecture: This…
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Cybersecurity Awareness
Cybersecurity Awareness plays a critical role in today’s highly interconnected digital environment. Organizations allocate significant resources to advanced security technologies such as firewalls, endpoint detection solutions, cloud security frameworks, and AI-powered threat monitoring systems. However, despite these sophisticated defenses, attackers continue to breach organizations”, frequently by targeting the weakest point in the security architecture: This…
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Never settle: How CISOs can go beyond compliance standards to better protect their organizations
Tags: ai, awareness, breach, ciso, compliance, computing, control, cybersecurity, finance, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, software, strategy, threat, training, vulnerabilityThe new North Star for CISOs: Accounting for emerging risk: We’ve established that it’s no longer good enough to overfit into a compliance standard, but you can still use compliance to your advantage.Most compliance programs mandate an information security risk assessment and, at a larger company, you may already have a dedicated enterprise risk management…
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Gartner-Prognose: Die sechs wichtigsten Cybersicherheits-Trends für 2026
Tags: ai, awareness, business, compliance, computing, cyberattack, cybersecurity, cyersecurity, framework, gartner, governance, resilience, risk, soc, tool, trainingLesen Sie, mit welchen Cybersecurity-Trends sich Unternehmen in diesem Jahr beschäftigen sollten.Auch im Jahr 2026 bleibt die Cybersicherheitslage angespannt. Doch was sind die wichtigsten Themen, Risiken und Chancen, mit denen sich Security-Entscheider aktuell befassen sollten?Das Marktforschungsunternehmen Gartner hat dazu folgende sechs Trends ermittelt: KI-Agenten werden zunehmend von Mitarbeitern und Entwicklern genutzt, wodurch neue Angriffsflächen entstehen.…
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Week in review: Notepad++ supply chain attack details and targets, Patch Tuesday forecast
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Global Threat Map: Open-source real-time situational awareness platform … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/08/week-in-review-notepad-supply-chain-attack-details-and-targets-patch-tuesday-forecast/
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When Documents Become the Attack Vector: Inside APT28’s Latest Microsoft Office Exploit
Email attachments remain one of the most trusted entry points into enterprise environments. Despite years of awareness training and secure email gateways, attackers continue to rely on documents because they blend seamlessly into everyday workflows. New reporting from The Hacker News details how APT28, a Russia-linked threat actor, is actively exploiting a newly disclosed Microsoft…
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Global Threat Map: Open-source real-time situational awareness platform
Global Threat Map is an open-source project offering security teams a live view of reported cyber activity across the globe, pulling together open data feeds into a single … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/04/global-threat-map-open-source-osint/
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New phishing attack leverages PDFs and Dropbox
Masquerading as a safe document format: But after so many warnings about this over time, why are people still so trusting of PDFs and Dropbox?”Because, historically, they’ve actually been trained to be,” said Avakian. PDFs are routinely used in the business world and have been positioned as a safe, read-only document format for invoices, contracts,…