Tag: ceo
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Ein Viertel der CISOs wird nach Ransomware-Angriff entlassen
Tags: backup, ceo, cio, ciso, cyberattack, group, incident response, mail, phishing, ransomware, rat, risk, sophos, vulnerabilityNach einem Ransomware-Angriff werden CISOs oft dafür verantwortlich gemacht und gekündigt. Laut einem aktuellen Bericht von Sophos haben CISOs eine Chance von eins zu vier, dass ihr Arbeitsplatz einen erfolgreichen Ransomware-Angriff nicht übersteht. Die Ergebnisse des Berichts sind ein Weckruf für Sicherheitsverantwortliche, unabhängig davon, ob sie für solche Angriffe verantwortlich gemacht werden oder über die…
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Browser wars are back, predicts Palo Alto, thanks to AI
CEO says if you buy all your infosec stuff from him, life under assault from bots will be less painful First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/palo_alto_networks_q4_fy25/
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Palo Alto Networks Q4 2025 Earnings: CEO Arora Credits Platform Strategy With Growth, Says To Watch Enterprise Browsers
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora talked about growth in security, enterprise browsers and more as adoption of cloud and AI positions the cybersecurity vendor well. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/palo-alto-networks-q4-2025-earnings-ceo-arora-credits-platform-strategy-with-growth-says-to-watch-enterprise-browsers-for-ai-security
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25% of security leaders replaced after ransomware attack
Tags: attack, breach, business, ceo, ciso, corporate, credentials, email, exploit, malicious, phishing, ransomware, risk, sophos, vulnerabilityA question of authority Dickson also argues that CISO authority should come into play. If decisions are made at the line-of-business (LOB) level, and potentially againstthe CISO’s advice, does it make corporate sense to blame the CISO?Some “presume that a ransomware attack is the fault of the CISO,” he says. “The CISO is a leader,…
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Agentic AI promises a cybersecurity revolution, with asterisks
Tags: ai, api, authentication, ceo, ciso, cloud, control, cybersecurity, data, endpoint, infrastructure, jobs, LLM, open-source, openai, risk, service, soc, software, supply-chain, technology, tool, update, vulnerabilityTrust, transparency, and moving slowly are crucial: Like all technologies, and perhaps more dramatically than most, agentic AI carries both risks and benefits. One obvious risk of AI agents is that, like most LLM models, they will hallucinate or make errors that could cause problems.”If you want to remove or give agency to a platform…
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Von der Spielerei zum Cyber-Betrug: Die neue Gefahr durch Deepfakes
Selbst technisch wenig versierte Täter können mithilfe generativer KI täuschend echte CEO-Anrufe, manipulierte Online-Meetings oder personalisierte Phishing-Kampagnen erstellen. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/von-der-spielerei-zum-cyber-betrug-die-neue-gefahr-durch-deepfakes/a41663/
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9 things CISOs need know about the dark web
Tags: 2fa, access, ai, attack, automation, backup, blockchain, botnet, breach, captcha, ceo, ciso, communications, corporate, credentials, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, ddos, deep-fake, defense, detection, dns, exploit, extortion, finance, fraud, group, guide, hacking, identity, incident, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, international, jobs, law, leak, lockbit, malicious, malware, marketplace, mfa, monitoring, network, open-source, phishing, privacy, ransomware, resilience, risk, russia, saas, scam, service, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayNew groups form after major marketplaces are disrupted: International takedown efforts damage infrastructure and curb cybercrime operations by disrupting larger operations, removing major players from the ecosystem and scattering user bases.However, the dark web is highly adaptive and sophisticated actors often maintain contingency plans, including mirrors, backups, and alternative forums, according to Edward Currie, associate…
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GPT-5 Launch Meets With Praise, User Pushback and Price Wars
CEO Altman Promises Fixes to ‘Way Dumber’ Performance, Transparency Amid Glitches. When OpenAI unveiled GPT-5, the company promised a smarter, faster AI at a bargain price. But day-one glitches prompted some users to call for a return to GPT-4. The company’s CEO apologized for the problems as OpenAI cut its pricing model and set up…
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Report Reveals Tool Overload Driving Fatigue and Missed Threats in MSPs
Tags: business, ceo, compliance, cybersecurity, endpoint, msp, network, ransomware, risk, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementThe Scale of the Problem The average MSP now runs five security tools, with 20% juggling seven to ten and 12% managing more than ten. Only 11% report seamless integration. The remaining 89% must flip between separate dashboards and waste time on manual workflows. One in four security alerts prove meaningless, with some MSPs reporting that…
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Report Reveals Tool Overload Driving Fatigue and Missed Threats in MSPs
Tags: business, ceo, compliance, cybersecurity, endpoint, msp, network, ransomware, risk, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementThe Scale of the Problem The average MSP now runs five security tools, with 20% juggling seven to ten and 12% managing more than ten. Only 11% report seamless integration. The remaining 89% must flip between separate dashboards and waste time on manual workflows. One in four security alerts prove meaningless, with some MSPs reporting that…
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OpenAI to fix GPT-5 issues, double rate limits for paid users after outrage
OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, overpromised on GPT-5, and real-life results are underwhelming, but it looks like a new update is rolling out that might address some of the concerns. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-to-fix-gpt-5-issues-double-rate-limits-for-paid-users-after-outrage/
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Otorio Buy Fuels Armis’ OT Security and AI-Driven Growth
CEO Yevgeny Dibrov Says Otorio Acquisition Positions Armis for Strong Growth. Armis CEO Yevgeny Dibrov outlines how the Otorio acquisition is driving OT security advances, enabling on-prem deployments and secure remote access. He also details AI’s role in defense, Nvidia collaborations and upcoming products to expand the cyber exposure management suite. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Arctic Wolf Boosts MSP Tools, AI in Endpoint Defense Upgrade
CEO Nick Schneider Says Cylance Integration Expands Security Platform Value. Roughly half of clients adopting Aurora endpoint security are replacing older, legacy endpoint solutions, while the other half are swapping out or augmenting next-gen endpoint tools, said CEO Nick Schneider. Arctic Wolf’s security operations in Cylance’s technology has created a unified platform delivering more than…
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What is a CISO? The top IT security leader role explained
Tags: access, authentication, breach, business, ceo, cio, cisa, ciso, compliance, computer, container, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, dns, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, framework, fraud, guide, Hardware, healthcare, infosec, infrastructure, intelligence, international, jobs, kubernetes, mitigation, msp, mssp, network, nist, programming, RedTeam, regulation, risk, risk-management, security-incident, service, skills, software, strategy, technology, threat, training, vpn, zero-day, zero-trust. You’ll often hear people say the difference between the two is that CISOs focus entirely on information security issues, while a CSOs remit is wider, also taking in physical security as well as risk management.But reality is messier. Many companies, especially smaller ones, have only one C-level security officer, called a CSO, with IT…
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Reveal Security Unveils Preemptive Approach to Securing Applications and Cloud Services
Reveal Security this week unfurled a platform designed to enable cybersecurity teams to preemptively manage access to multiple applications and cloud infrastructure resources both before and after end users have logged in. Company CEO Kevin Hanes said the Reveal Platform takes advantage of machine and deep learning algorithms to identify normal login behavior without having..…
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Reveal Security Unveils Preemptive Approach to Securing Applications and Cloud Services
Reveal Security this week unfurled a platform designed to enable cybersecurity teams to preemptively manage access to multiple applications and cloud infrastructure resources both before and after end users have logged in. Company CEO Kevin Hanes said the Reveal Platform takes advantage of machine and deep learning algorithms to identify normal login behavior without having..…
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Project Ire: Microsoft’s autonomous AI agent that can reverse engineer malware
Tags: ai, attack, ceo, cloud, compliance, computing, control, cybersecurity, defense, detection, exploit, finance, governance, government, healthcare, infrastructure, LLM, malicious, malware, microsoft, programming, risk, service, siem, soar, soc, software, threat, tool, trainingReal-world testing: In real-world tests on 4,000 “hard-target” files that had stumped automated tools, Project Ire flagged 9 malicious files out of 10 files correctly, and a low 4% false positive rate.This makes Project Ire suitable for organizations that operate in high-risk, high-volume, and time-sensitive environments where traditional human-based threat triage is insufficient.Rawat added that…
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No, Mr. Altman, Passwords Are Not Back in Vogue
OpenAI CEO Says AI Has Beaten Voice Recognition, But Experts Disagree OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently claimed that artificial intelligence has fully defeated most of the ways that people authenticate currently, other than passwords. A host of security experts disagree and point out that passwords got us into this authentication mess to begin with. First…
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Top cybersecurity M&A deals for 2025
Tags: 5G, access, ai, api, apple, application-security, attack, automation, awareness, banking, breach, business, ceo, cisco, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, detection, edr, email, endpoint, finance, firewall, gitlab, government, group, ibm, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, leak, microsoft, mitigation, network, password, programming, risk, risk-management, saas, service, software, sophos, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, waf, zero-trustPalo Alto Networks to buy CyberArk for $25B as identity security takes center stage July 30, 2025: Palo Alto Networks is making what could be its biggest bet yet by agreeing to buy Israeli identity security company CyberArk for around $25 billion. “We envision Identity Security becoming the next major pillar of our multi-platform strategy, complementing our leadership…
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Security tooling pitfalls for small teams: Cost, complexity, and low ROI
In this Help Net Security interview, Aayush Choudhury, CEO at Scrut Automation, discusses why many security tools built for large enterprises don’t work well for leaner, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/05/aayush-choudhury-scrut-automation-lean-security-teams/
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CISA releases Thorium, an open-source, scalable platform for malware analysis
Tags: access, ceo, cio, cisa, compliance, container, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, docker, framework, github, governance, incident response, kubernetes, malware, open-source, privacy, risk, skills, toolRethinking malware analysis at scale: Enterprise-grade malware analysis tools and platforms have been widely used in the security community. But many of them require paid licenses, lack orchestration at scale, or are difficult to integrate with enterprise workflows. Experts view Thorium as a significant democratization of advanced malware analysis technology.”It is a big deal as…
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Lovense flaws expose emails and allow account takeover
Lovense fixed bugs exposing emails and allowing account takeovers. Company CEO may take legal action after the flaws were publicly disclosed. Lovense, a manufacturer of internet-connected sex toys, fixed two vulnerabilities that exposed users’ emails and allowed remote account takeovers. A researcher known as BobDaHacker recently disclosed the flaws after Lovense claimed it would take…
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AIBOMs are the new SBOMs: The missing link in AI risk management
In this Help Net Security interview, Marc Frankel, CEO at Manifest Cyber, discusses how overlooked AI-specific risks, like poisoned training data and shadow AI, can lead to … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/04/marc-frankel-manifest-cyber-aiboms-sboms/
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Noma Raised $100M to Expand Agentic AI Security Platform
Red-Hot Startup Noma Security to Deepen Protection for AI Models and Agents. With agentic AI deployments accelerating, Noma Security’s $100 million Series B will fuel development of risk management and runtime protection features. CEO Niv Braun said demand for securing agentic AI has surged among Fortune 500 firms and healthcare and financial institutions. First seen…
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Hackers leak purported Aeroflot data as Russia denies breach
Hackers have leaked flight records allegedly belonging to the CEO of the Russian airline Aeroflot following a major cyberattack that grounded flights. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/hackers-leak-purported-aeroflot-data
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Zscaler Completes Red Canary Acquisition For Major SecOps Push
Zscaler announced Friday it has completed its acquisition of Red Canary in a move that aims to accelerate the vendor’s security operations expansion and help to displace traditional SIEM, as Zscaler Founder and CEO Jay Chaudhry told CRN previously. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/zscaler-completes-red-canary-acquisition-for-major-secops-push
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GTIA CEO Dan Wensley: ‘From Cybersecurity To AI, MSPs Are Navigating Seismic Shifts’
GTIA CEO Dan Wensley talks community, AI and supporting MSPs. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/channel-news/2025/gtia-ceo-dan-wensley-from-cybersecurity-to-ai-msps-are-navigating-seismic-shifts
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Climb Global Solutions hints at further M&A
Distributor shares Q2 progress, with CEO talking of willingness to make strategic investments to expand the business First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/microscope/news/366628354/Climb-Global-Solutions-hints-at-further-MA