Tag: business
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Cybersecurity Predictions Are a Window into a Vendor’s Roadmap and Business Priorities
How to cut through the fluff – Includes a prompt to dissect vendor predictions First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/cybersecurity-predictions-are-a-window-into-a-vendors-roadmap-and-business-priorities/
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Critical n8n Vulnerability Allows Authenticated Remote Code Execution
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in n8n, the popular workflow automation tool, potentially allowing authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on the host server. Identified as CVE-2026-21877, this high-severity vulnerability affects both self-hosted and n8n Cloud instances, posing a significant risk to organizations relying on the platform for business process automation. The vulnerability has…
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Owner of Stalkerware Maker pcTattletale Pleads Guilty to Hacking
Bryan Fleming, who founded the stalkerware business pcTattletale, pleaded guilty in federal court to hacking and conspiracy charges. Investigators said he crossed the line when he started marketing the software to people who wanted to covertly plant it on the smartphones of unsuspecting victims to track their activities and movements. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump…
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Business Judgement Rule – Manager-Haftung bei Cyberangriffen
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/manager-haftung-bei-cyberangriffen-a-773bdf8ead20bcac0e19d51a89dfe787/
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The Shift Left of Boom: Making Cyberthreat Prevention Practical Again
The old saying ‘prevention is better than cure’ has lost value in today’s cybersecurity industry. Instead, security teams are advised to assume that the business has been breached and focus on threat detection, investigation, response and recovery. However, during cyber incident postmortems, it is not uncommon to find that the business owned the tool that would have protected it against the breach……
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8 things CISOs can’t afford to get wrong in 2026
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, automation, awareness, breach, business, ciso, cloud, communications, compliance, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, dora, encryption, finance, firmware, GDPR, healthcare, identity, incident response, india, infrastructure, injection, insurance, intelligence, iot, jobs, law, malicious, monitoring, network, privacy, ransom, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, scam, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, zero-trust“Identity and access controls for AI agents and AI platforms are one of the most important areas of concern for CISOs,” says Jason Stading, director at global technology research and advisory firm ISG. “Right now, permissions and access rights for AI are a black box in many areas. We will see a major push over…
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Automated data poisoning proposed as a solution for AI theft threat
Tags: ai, breach, business, cyber, data, encryption, framework, intelligence, LLM, malicious, microsoft, resilience, risk, risk-management, technology, theft, threatKnowledge graphs 101: A bit of background about knowledge graphs: LLMs use a technique called Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to search for information based on a user query and provide the results as additional reference for the AI system’s answer generation. In 2024, Microsoft introduced GraphRAG to help LLMs answer queries needing information beyond the data on…
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Cybersecurity hat kein Budget-Problem
Tags: breach, business, ciso, compliance, cyberattack, cybersecurity, cyersecurity, governance, jobs, risk, security-incident, strategyEin Tag im Leben eines Sicherheitsentscheiders”¦Wenn es um Security-Budgets geht, dreht sich ein Großteil der (Online-)Diskussionen darum, wie man das “Board” für sich gewinnt und Investitionen rechtfertigt. Einige Ansätze basieren auf spezifischen Finanzmodellen und zielen darauf ab, den Return on Investment (ROI) zu rechtfertigen. Andere konzentrieren sich eher darauf, Risiken zu quantifizieren und deren Minderung…
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How does Agentic AI drive business value?
What Role Does Agentic AI Play in Enhancing Business Value? A pertinent question arises: How can organizations leverage Agentic AI to enhance business value effectively? Where a data management and cybersecurity expert specializing in Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and secrets security management, exploring the strategic implementation of Agentic AI in various industries is crucial. This AI……
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Why governments need to treat fraud like cyberwarfare, not customer service
For too long, fraud an illicit economy rivaling the GDP of G20 nations has been seen as a cost of doing business, a nuisance to be absorbed by banks and consumers. That perception is a dangerous relic. Modern fraud blends geopolitics with advanced technical tactics, carried out through criminal proxies to target businesses […] First…
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Why Business Structure Matters for Cybersecurity Compliance in Remote-First Companies
Remote-first companies are no longer an exception. What began as a temporary response to global disruption has evolved into a long-term operating model for startups, scaleups, and even established enterprises. Distributed teams, cloud-based tools, and borderless hiring have unlocked flexibility and talent access”, but they have also introduced new cybersecurity and compliance challenges. One often-overlooked…
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AI, Quantum, and the New Threat Frontier: What Will Define Cybersecurity in 2026?
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, automation, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, computer, computing, container, control, crypto, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, encryption, exploit, finance, flaw, framework, governance, government, healthcare, iam, identity, infrastructure, injection, LLM, malicious, metric, monitoring, network, nist, open-source, oracle, regulation, resilience, risk, service, skills, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, waf, zero-day, zero-trustAI, Quantum, and the New Threat Frontier: What Will Define Cybersecurity in 2026? madhav Tue, 01/06/2026 – 04:44 If we think 2025 has been fast-paced, it’s going to feel like a warm-up for the changes on the horizon in 2026. Every time this year, Thales experts become cybersecurity oracles and predict where the industry is…
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6 strategies for building a high-performance cybersecurity team
Tags: advisory, ai, apple, attack, business, ciso, communications, compliance, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, intelligence, resilience, risk, service, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability2. Be clear on the mission: Sharon Chand, US cyber defense and resilience leader at professional services firm Deloitte, says a characteristic of a high-performing team is alignment on the team’s mission.To do that, though, team members need to know what the mission is and buy into it.”It has to be a very clear mission…
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6 strategies for building a high-performance cybersecurity team
Tags: advisory, ai, apple, attack, business, ciso, communications, compliance, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, intelligence, resilience, risk, service, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability2. Be clear on the mission: Sharon Chand, US cyber defense and resilience leader at professional services firm Deloitte, says a characteristic of a high-performing team is alignment on the team’s mission.To do that, though, team members need to know what the mission is and buy into it.”It has to be a very clear mission…
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Why a Cisco-Axonius Deal Makes Sense, and Why It Might Not
Despite Cisco’s Cyber Struggles, the Perks of Offering Asset Management Are Clear Cisco is eyeing what would be its third-largest cybersecurity acquisition ever, Calcalist reported: a $2 billion buy of New York-based asset management vendor Axonius. The Israeli business publication said Sunday the two sides are in advanced negotiations. Axonius denied the Calcalist report. First…
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Why a Cisco-Axonius Deal Makes Sense, and Why It Might Not
Despite Cisco’s Cyber Struggles, the Perks of Offering Asset Management Are Clear Cisco is eyeing what would be its third-largest cybersecurity acquisition ever, Calcalist reported: a $2 billion buy of New York-based asset management vendor Axonius. The Israeli business publication said Sunday the two sides are in advanced negotiations. Axonius denied the Calcalist report. First…
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Cybersecurity Awareness: Why Centralized Monitoring Is No Longer Optional
In today’s digital world, cybersecurity is no longer just an IT problem, it is a business survival requirement. Organizations are deploying multiple tools such as firewalls, EDR, databases, operating systems, cloud platforms, WAFs, proxies, and more. However, simply deploying tools does not guarantee security. What truly matters is how effectively you monitor, correlate, and respond…
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What the CEO and C-Suite Must Ask Before Building an AI Enabled Enterprise
Artificial intelligence is transforming business models and competitive advantage. Leadership teams agree AI matters, but far fewer know how to turn AI potential into real,…Read More First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2026/01/what-the-ceo-and-c-suite-must-ask-before-building-an-ai-enabled-enterprise/
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Several countries investigate Elon Musk’s Grok after sexualized deepfakes on women and children
How and why deepfake videos work, and what is at riskThe deepfake threat just got a little more personalDeepfakes break through as business threat First seen on csoonline.com Jump to article: www.csoonline.com/article/4112827/several-countries-investigate-elon-musks-grok-after-sexualized-deepfakes-on-women-and-children.html
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Threat Actors Abuse Trusted Business Infrastructure to Host Infostealers
In a disturbing evolution of the cybercrime landscape, a self-sustaining cycle of infection has emerged in which victims of malware are being unwillingly conscripted into the ranks of attackers. New research from the Hudson Rock Threat Intelligence Team, in collaboration with the newly released ClickFix Hunter platform, reveals that a significant portion of domains hosting…
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RondoDox Botnet is Using React2Shell to Hijack Thousands of Unpatched Devices
RondoDox hackers exploit the React2Shell flaw in Next.js to target 90,000+ devices, including routers, smart cameras, and small business websites. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/rondodox-botnet-react2shell-hijack-unpatched-devices/
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Best of 2025: Huge Food Wholesaler Paralyzed by Hack, is it Scattered Spider Again?
Tags: businessUNFInished business: We were warned this would happen. And now here we are. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/huge-food-wholesaler-paralyzed-by-hack-is-it-scattered-spider-again-2/
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How SaaS Management Reduces Organizational Risk and Improves GRC Outcomes
As enterprises increasingly rely on SaaS applications to run critical business functions, risk management and compliance challenges are becoming more complex and less visible. Traditional governance models were not designed to account for the scale, speed, and decentralization of modern SaaS environments. Addressing this gap requires a closer connection between operational visibility and governance, risk,……
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What Kevin Bacon Can Teach You About Cybersecurity Careers
Systems Thinking, Not Tools, Increasingly Separates Senior Talent From Peers The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game shows how quickly distance disappears once connections are traced. Cybersecurity careers work the same way. Advancement depends on understanding how your work connects to indirect risk, supply chain failures and business outcomes beyond your role. First seen on…
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Equifax Europe CISO: Notorious breach spurred cybersecurity transformation
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, business, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computer, control, corporate, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, dora, espionage, finance, framework, google, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, network, nis-2, phishing, regulation, risk, risk-management, security-incident, service, strategy, technology, threat, updateCloud as a new technological axis: Equifax’s $3 billion migration to the cloud, “which had been brewing for about seven years” and which the company says is the largest technological investment in its history, has involved moving more than 300 systems, over 30 product families, and thousands of customers to the company’s cloud platform, Equifax Cloud, in Spain…
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So geht Post-Incident Review
Post-Incident Reviews können dazu beitragen, die richtigen Lehren aus Sicherheitsvorfällen zu ziehen wenn sie richtig aufgesetzt sind.Angenommen, Ihr Unternehmen wird von Cyberkriminellen angegriffen, kommt dabei aber mit einem blauen Auge davon, weil die Attacke zwar spät, aber noch rechtzeitig entdeckt und abgewehrt werden konnte ohne größeren Business Impact. Jetzt einfach wie bisher weiterzumachen und die…
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Best of 2025: How Secure Are Your Machine Identities in the Cloud?
Are Your Machine Identities Secure in the Cloud? More and more organizations are shifting their operations to the cloud. While this move optimizes business processes and enhances productivity, it also presents new challenges. One of the top concerns is the security of Non-Human Identities (NHIs), and managing them effectively is a critical aspect of robust……