Tag: business
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How to turn threat intel into real security wins
Tags: access, api, attack, automation, awareness, business, ciso, cloud, communications, control, credentials, csf, data, data-breach, detection, dns, edr, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, framework, governance, guide, identity, intelligence, lessons-learned, mail, malware, mitre, nist, phishing, ransomware, resilience, risk, saas, siem, soar, soc, switch, tactics, theft, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityThe CISO mandate: Risk, efficiency, investment, response: Reduce operational risk and financial loss Intelligence-led detection and response aim to prevent or minimise data loss and business disruption. The downstream effects, smaller blast radii, fewer regulatory headaches and lower recovery bills, are what boards recognise. Maximise staff efficiency Manual validation and correlation drive alert fatigue. Automating…
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From code to boardroom: A GenAI GRC approach to supply chain risk
Tags: ai, blockchain, business, ciso, compliance, dark-web, data, defense, finance, framework, gartner, grc, intelligence, LLM, metric, open-source, regulation, resilience, risk, strategy, supply-chain, threat, vulnerabilityThe GenAI GRC mandate: From reporting to prediction: To counter a threat that moves at the speed of computation, our GRC must also become generative and predictive. The GenAI GRC mandate is to shift the focus from documenting compliance to predicting systemic failure.Current GRC methods are designed for documentation. They verify that a policy exists.…
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How to turn threat intel into real security wins
Tags: access, api, attack, automation, awareness, business, ciso, cloud, communications, control, credentials, csf, data, data-breach, detection, dns, edr, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, framework, governance, guide, identity, intelligence, lessons-learned, mail, malware, mitre, nist, phishing, ransomware, resilience, risk, saas, siem, soar, soc, switch, tactics, theft, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityThe CISO mandate: Risk, efficiency, investment, response: Reduce operational risk and financial loss Intelligence-led detection and response aim to prevent or minimise data loss and business disruption. The downstream effects, smaller blast radii, fewer regulatory headaches and lower recovery bills, are what boards recognise. Maximise staff efficiency Manual validation and correlation drive alert fatigue. Automating…
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Ransomware gangs seize a new hostage: your AWS S3 buckets
Tags: access, backup, breach, business, cloud, control, credentials, cryptography, data, encryption, exploit, least-privilege, monitoring, network, ransomware, supply-chainWeaponizing cloud encryption and key management: Trend Micro has identified five S3 ransomware variants that increasingly exploit AWS’s built-in encryption paths. One abuses default AWS-managed KMS keys (SSE-KMS) by encrypting data with an attacker-created key and scheduling that key for deletion. Another uses customer-provided keys (SSE-C), where AWS has no copy, making recovery impossible. The…
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Root causes of security breaches remain elusive, jeopardizing resilience
Tags: attack, breach, business, ciso, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, framework, governance, incident response, intelligence, lessons-learned, monitoring, resilience, security-incident, service, siem, skills, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vpn, vulnerabilityTracing an attack path: Preparation is key, so businesses need to have dedicated tools and skills for digital forensics in place before an incident occurs through technologies such as security incident and event management (SIEM).SIEM devices are important because, for example, many gateway and VPN devices have a local storage that overwrites itself within hours.”If…
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Windows 11 to Prevent BSOD Error Messages from Showing Publicly
Microsoft has announced a significant Windows 11 update that will prevent the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and other system error messages from appearing on public-facing screens. The new feature, called Digital Signage mode, addresses a critical business continuity challenge faced by restaurants, airports, retail stores, and other organizations that rely on public displays. Digital Signage…
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4 People Indicted in Alleged Conspiracy to Smuggle Supercomputers and Nvidia Chips to China
A federal prosecutor alleged that one defendant boasted that his father “had engaged in similar business for the Chinese Communist Party.” First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/smuggling-supercomputers-china-nvidia-indictment/
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Four Indicted In Alleged Conspiracy To Smuggle Supercomputers and Nvidia Chips to China
A federal prosecutor alleged one defendant boasted that his father “had engaged in similar business for the Chinese Communist Party.” First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/smuggling-supercomputers-china-nvidia-indictment/
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It’s not personal, it’s just business
Martin muses on how agentic AI is bringing efficiency improvements to the business of cyber crime. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/its-not-personal-its-just-business/
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Samourai Wallet crypto mixer’s co-founders sentenced to prison
The pair had pleaded guilty in late July to participating in a conspiracy “to operate a money transmitting business in which they knowingly transmitted criminal proceeds.” First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/samourai-wallet-crypto-mixer-founders-sentenced
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3 ways CISOs can win over their boards this budget season
Tip 2: Go beyond compliance standards: It’s no secret that compliance and regulations drive nearly 80% of CISOs’ budget justifications. Industry standards like HIPAA and SOC2 can offer a guiding framework for a program, but with evolving threats from AI, the rise of quantum computing and increasingly complex third-party risk, CISOs need to think of…
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Selling to the CISO: An open letter to the cybersecurity industry
Looking for reliability, not revolution: I’m not anti-technology. I rely on it. But I buy it with purpose. I buy tools that make us better at the basics, that help enforce discipline, and that reduce human error. I buy solutions that simplify, not complicate. And I buy from vendors who tell me the truth, even…
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Attack Surface Management ein Kaufratgeber
Tags: ai, api, attack, business, cloud, crowdstrike, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, detection, dns, framework, hacker, hacking, HIPAA, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, microsoft, monitoring, network, open-source, PCI, penetration-testing, risk, service, soc, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityMit diesen Attack Surface Management Tools sorgen Sie im Idealfall dafür, dass sich Angreifer gar nicht erst verbeißen.Regelmäßige Netzwerk-Scans reichen für eine gehärtete Angriffsfläche nicht mehr aus. Um die Sicherheit von Unternehmensressourcen und Kundendaten zu gewährleisten, ist eine kontinuierliche Überwachung auf neue Ressourcen und Konfigurationsabweichungen erforderlich. Werkzeuge im Bereich Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM)…
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Selling technology investments to the board: a strategic guide for CISOs and CIOs
The C-suite will have zero interest in zero trust without a good business case First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/zscaler-selling-technology-investments/
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WhatsApp flaw allowed discovery of the 3.5 billion mobile numbers registered to the platform
Tags: api, attack, bug-bounty, business, china, cloud, dark-web, data, data-breach, encryption, flaw, government, mobile, phishing, phone, privacy, spam, technology, vulnerability, windowsHey there You are using WhatsApp, marks this as one of the most embarrassing weaknesses yet in the world’s most widely-used communication app.The vulnerability was in WhatsApp’s contact discovery mechanism, the foundation of how this and many similar apps work. When WhatsApp is installed, it asks for permission to match mobile numbers in a user’s…
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WhatsApp flaw allowed discovery of the 3.5 billion mobile numbers registered to the platform
Tags: api, attack, bug-bounty, business, china, cloud, dark-web, data, data-breach, encryption, flaw, government, mobile, phishing, phone, privacy, spam, technology, vulnerability, windowsHey there You are using WhatsApp, marks this as one of the most embarrassing weaknesses yet in the world’s most widely-used communication app.The vulnerability was in WhatsApp’s contact discovery mechanism, the foundation of how this and many similar apps work. When WhatsApp is installed, it asks for permission to match mobile numbers in a user’s…
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The Gentlemen<< Ransomware Group Deploys Dual-Extortion Tactics, Encrypting and Exfiltrating Data
Cybereason Threat Intelligence Team has uncovered a sophisticated ransomware operation known as >>The Gentlemen,
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The Gentlemen<< Ransomware Group Deploys Dual-Extortion Tactics, Encrypting and Exfiltrating Data
Cybereason Threat Intelligence Team has uncovered a sophisticated ransomware operation known as >>The Gentlemen,
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The nexus of risk and intelligence: How vulnerability-informed hunting uncovers what everything else misses
Tags: access, attack, authentication, business, cisa, compliance, cve, cvss, dark-web, data, defense, detection, dns, edr, endpoint, exploit, framework, intelligence, kev, linux, malicious, mitigation, mitre, monitoring, ntlm, nvd, open-source, password, powershell, remote-code-execution, risk, risk-management, siem, soc, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementTurning vulnerability data into intelligence: Once vulnerabilities are contextualized, they can be turned into actionable intelligence. Every significant CVE tells a story, known exploit activity, actor interest, proof-of-concept code or links to MITRE ATT&CK techniques. This external intelligence gives us the who and how behind potential exploitation.For example, when a privilege escalation vulnerability in Linux…
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Overcome the myriad challenges of password management to bolster data protection
Tags: access, attack, authentication, automation, backup, best-practice, breach, business, cio, cloud, compliance, control, cyberattack, data, data-breach, gartner, GDPR, identity, infrastructure, international, kaspersky, mfa, password, risk, software, technology, tool, update[1]And both enterprises and small and mid-sized businesses have already made significant investments in authentication, access controls and identity and access management (IAM).[2]But these investments are not effective without robust passwords. At the same time, password management is a cost for IT and security teams, and an inconvenience for technology users.The scale of the problem…
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Microsoft Ignite 2025: The Biggest Partner Program, Security News
Microsoft partner program and security news from Ignite 2025 includes Microsoft 365 Copilot Business, AI agents in Microsoft Intune and Windows kernel access updates. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/microsoft-ignite-2025-the-biggest-news-in-partner-program-security
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5 Big AI Announcements At OpenText World 2025
OpenText unveiled a series of new AI-related products Tuesday that aims to give the company a higher profile in the fast-growing AI space, leveraging the vendor’s decades of experience in the data business, company executives said. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/5-big-ai-announcements-at-opentext-world-2025
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5 Big AI Announcements At OpenText World 2025
OpenText unveiled a series of new AI-related products Tuesday that aims to give the company a higher profile in the fast-growing AI space, leveraging the vendor’s decades of experience in the data business, company executives said. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/5-big-ai-announcements-at-opentext-world-2025
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Learn How Leading Companies Secure Cloud Workloads and Infrastructure at Scale
You’ve probably already moved some of your business to the cloud”, or you’re planning to. That’s a smart move. It helps you work faster, serve your customers better, and stay ahead.But as your cloud setup grows, it gets harder to control who can access what.Even one small mistake”, like the wrong person getting access”, can…
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Rethinking identity for the AI era: CISOs must build trust at machine speed
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, business, ciso, cloud, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, google, governance, group, identity, infrastructure, injection, Internet, LLM, malicious, mitigation, network, risk, theft, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityIdentity as a trust fabric: Most organizations currently rely on a welter of identity and access management systems for a variety of reasons. Some systems might be tied to a specific vendor’s technology; some might be legacy systems from mergers or acquisitions; some might be in place due to legal or regulatory requirements.”What happens even…
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Logitech discloses data breach after Clop claims
The filing comes one week after the Clop cybercriminal organization claimed it stole information from Logitech through a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle’s E-Business Suite tool. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/logitech-discloses-data-breach-clop