Tag: risk-management
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AI-powered bug hunting shakes up bounty industry, for better or worse
Tags: access, ai, authentication, automation, bug-bounty, business, ciso, cloud, control, credentials, data, detection, exploit, flaw, guide, identity, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, risk, risk-management, sql, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerabilityFirehose of ‘false positives’: Gunter Ollmann, CTO at Cobalt.io, warns that AI is exacerbating the existing problem that comes from vendors getting swamped with often low-quality bug submissions.Security researchers turning to AI is creating a “firehose of noise, false positives, and duplicates,” according to Ollmann.”The future of security testing isn’t about managing a crowd of…
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Kurdische Hacktivisten auch in Deutschland aktiv
Die Sicherheitsforscher von Check-Point-External-Risk-Management von Check Point Software Technologies haben zwischen August und Oktober 2025 rund 350 Denial-of-Service-Attacken (DDoS) mit der Gruppe Hezi Rash in Verbindung gebracht, darunter 14,2 Prozent in Deutschland. Unterstrichen wird die Gefährlichkeit dieser Hacktivisten-Gruppe Hezi Rash, was auf kurdisch Schwarze-Kraft oder Schwarze-Truppe heißt, von den Indizien, dass sie mit bekannten cyberkriminellen…
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Rethinking Identity Security in the Age of AI
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, best-practice, breach, business, captcha, ceo, container, control, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, deep-fake, defense, detection, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, fraud, Hardware, iam, identity, login, malware, mfa, monitoring, passkey, password, phishing, risk, risk-management, scam, threat, tool, vulnerabilityRethinking Identity Security in the Age of AI madhav Tue, 10/28/2025 – 06:35 Traditional identity protections were never designed for the age of AI. They can’t stop the lightning-fast, highly convincing identity attacks AI facilitates. There’s a reason that nearly 60% of businesses say compromised credentials are the leading cause of breaches. Data Security Marco…
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Rethinking Identity Security in the Age of AI
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, best-practice, breach, business, captcha, ceo, container, control, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, deep-fake, defense, detection, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, fraud, Hardware, iam, identity, login, malware, mfa, monitoring, passkey, password, phishing, risk, risk-management, scam, threat, tool, vulnerabilityRethinking Identity Security in the Age of AI madhav Tue, 10/28/2025 – 06:35 Traditional identity protections were never designed for the age of AI. They can’t stop the lightning-fast, highly convincing identity attacks AI facilitates. There’s a reason that nearly 60% of businesses say compromised credentials are the leading cause of breaches. Data Security Marco…
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AI Visibility: The Key to Responsible Governance – Kovrr
Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/ai-visibility-the-key-to-responsible-governance-kovrr/
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How evolving regulations are redefining CISO responsibility
Tags: attack, awareness, breach, ciso, communications, compliance, credentials, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, governance, identity, incident response, intelligence, iot, nis-2, phone, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-management, sbom, service, software, threat, tool, vulnerabilityIncreasing attacks on IoT and OT device vulnerabilities Cyberattacks are increasingly driven by software vulnerabilities embedded in OT and IoT devices. The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report noted that 20% of breaches were vulnerability-based, which is a close second to credential abuse, accounting for 22% of breaches. Year over year, breaches resulting from software…
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Volvo’s recent security breach: 5 tips to speed incident response while preserving forensic integrity
Tags: access, automation, breach, business, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, finance, framework, gartner, GDPR, guide, incident, incident response, insurance, metric, mitigation, nist, resilience, risk, risk-management, saas, security-incident, siem, soar, supply-chain, vulnerabilityIdentify and catalog your evidence sources in advance (endpoints, memory, logs, cloud assets)Stage scripts or agents that can snapshot memory and archive logs immediately when an IR trigger firesMake forensic collection part of containment, not something you tack on afterwardModern approaches and even NIST’s updated guidance emphasize that evidence gathering should begin during, not after,…
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Volvo’s recent security breach: 5 tips to speed incident response while preserving forensic integrity
Tags: access, automation, breach, business, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, finance, framework, gartner, GDPR, guide, incident, incident response, insurance, metric, mitigation, nist, resilience, risk, risk-management, saas, security-incident, siem, soar, supply-chain, vulnerabilityIdentify and catalog your evidence sources in advance (endpoints, memory, logs, cloud assets)Stage scripts or agents that can snapshot memory and archive logs immediately when an IR trigger firesMake forensic collection part of containment, not something you tack on afterwardModern approaches and even NIST’s updated guidance emphasize that evidence gathering should begin during, not after,…
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Cybersicherheit ist größte Herausforderung für die Finanzbranche
Cyberangriffe stellen viele Banken und Versicherungen vor große Probleme.Systemkritische Branchen wie die Finanzindustrie geraten immer häufiger ins Visier von Cyberkriminellen. Die Anzahl der Cyberangriffe hat sich in diesem Bereich im Vergleich zum Jahr 2021 versechsfacht. Das geht aus einer aktuellen Umfrage des Beratungs- und Softwarehauses PPI hervor, für die hierzulande 50 Banken und 53 Versicherungen…
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Do CISOs need to rethink service provider risk?
Tags: access, ai, breach, ciso, compliance, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, data, framework, governance, group, guide, incident, incident response, ISO-27001, penetration-testing, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, service, soc, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerabilityShould risk assessment be about questionnaires or conversation?: David Stockdale, director of cybersecurity at the University of Queensland (UQ), needs services providers to understand the make-up and complexity of a higher education institution.”Because of the size and research intensity of the university, we tend to build a lot in-house. Where we do use service providers,…
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Do CISOs need to rethink service provider risk?
Tags: access, ai, breach, ciso, compliance, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, data, framework, governance, group, guide, incident, incident response, ISO-27001, penetration-testing, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, service, soc, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerabilityShould risk assessment be about questionnaires or conversation?: David Stockdale, director of cybersecurity at the University of Queensland (UQ), needs services providers to understand the make-up and complexity of a higher education institution.”Because of the size and research intensity of the university, we tend to build a lot in-house. Where we do use service providers,…
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When Chatbots Go Rogue: Securing Conversational AI in Cyber Defense
Tags: ai, authentication, best-practice, compliance, cyber, data, encryption, privacy, risk, risk-management, strategy, vulnerabilityAs businesses increasingly rely on AI chatbots, securing conversational AI is now mission-critical. Learn about common chatbot vulnerabilities, AI risk management strategies, and best practices, from data encryption and authentication to model protection, to safeguard user trust, privacy, and compliance in the digital era. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/when-chatbots-go-rogue-securing-conversational-ai-in-cyber-defense/
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Risiken bei der Wiederherstellung nach Ransomware-Angriffen
Tags: alphv, authentication, backup, ceo, ciso, crowdstrike, cyber, cyberattack, DSGVO, encryption, extortion, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, lockbit, mfa, ransomware, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, tool, updateDie Zahlung des Lösegelds nach einer Ransomware-Attacke ist keine Garantie für eine reibungslose oder gar erfolgreiche Wiederherstellung der Daten.Zwei von fünf Unternehmen, die Cyberkriminellen für die Entschlüsselung von Ransomware bezahlen, können ihre Daten nicht wiederherstellen. Das hat eine weltweite Umfrage des Versicherungsanbieters Hiscox unter 1.000 mittelständischen Unternehmen ergeben.Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Ransomware nach wie vor…
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Risiken bei der Wiederherstellung nach Ransomware-Angriffen
Tags: alphv, authentication, backup, ceo, ciso, crowdstrike, cyber, cyberattack, DSGVO, encryption, extortion, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, lockbit, mfa, ransomware, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, tool, updateDie Zahlung des Lösegelds nach einer Ransomware-Attacke ist keine Garantie für eine reibungslose oder gar erfolgreiche Wiederherstellung der Daten.Zwei von fünf Unternehmen, die Cyberkriminellen für die Entschlüsselung von Ransomware bezahlen, können ihre Daten nicht wiederherstellen. Das hat eine weltweite Umfrage des Versicherungsanbieters Hiscox unter 1.000 mittelständischen Unternehmen ergeben.Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Ransomware nach wie vor…
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Stay Calm with Effective Cyber Risk Management
Are Your Cyber Risk Management Strategies Truly Effective? A growing concern among security professionals is whether they have implemented effective strategies to manage the cyber risks posed by Non-Human Identities (NHIs). With the increased adoption of cloud technologies across industries such as financial services, healthcare, and travel, the efficient management of these machine identities is……
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Getting Better at Managing Cloud Risks
How Can Organizations Improve Their Approach to Cloud Risk Management? Where cloud adoption continues to surge, how can organizations ensure their cybersecurity strategy genuinely addresses all vulnerabilities, particularly those associated with Non-Human Identities (NHIs)? When more businesses migrate their operations to the cloud, the complexities of managing these machine identities become evident. Without a structured……
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Top Advice for Detecting and Preventing AI Attacks, and for Securing AI Systems
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, awareness, best-practice, breach, business, chatgpt, china, ciso, cloud, computing, container, control, credentials, crime, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, email, exploit, extortion, finance, flaw, framework, fraud, google, governance, government, group, guide, hacker, hacking, healthcare, iam, identity, incident response, intelligence, LLM, malicious, malware, mitigation, monitoring, network, open-source, openai, organized, phishing, ransom, risk, risk-management, russia, sans, scam, service, skills, soc, strategy, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, zero-trustAs organizations eagerly adopt AI, cybersecurity teams are racing to protect these new systems. In this special edition of the Cybersecurity Snapshot, we round up some of the best recent guidance on how to fend off AI attacks, and on how to safeguard your AI systems. Key takeaways Developers are getting new playbooks from groups…
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Ransomware recovery perils: 40% of paying victims still lose their data
Tags: access, attack, authentication, backup, breach, business, ceo, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, extortion, finance, GDPR, group, incident response, insurance, leak, mfa, privacy, ransom, ransomware, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, threat, updateAdditional recovery pressures: Modern ransomware attacks now routinely involve double or triple extortion whereby attackers threaten to leak stolen data or launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks even after payment.This fundamentally changes the calculus on what victims can expect in cases where they decide to make a ransomware payment, which more often than not…
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Ransomware recovery perils: 40% of paying victims still lose their data
Tags: access, attack, authentication, backup, breach, business, ceo, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, extortion, finance, GDPR, group, incident response, insurance, leak, mfa, privacy, ransom, ransomware, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, threat, updateAdditional recovery pressures: Modern ransomware attacks now routinely involve double or triple extortion whereby attackers threaten to leak stolen data or launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks even after payment.This fundamentally changes the calculus on what victims can expect in cases where they decide to make a ransomware payment, which more often than not…
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The next cyber crisis may start in someone else’s supply chain
Organizations are getting better at some aspects of risk management but remain underprepared for the threats reshaping the business landscape, according to a new Riskonnect … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/23/geopolitics-drives-cyber-threats-report/
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Island Hopping on AI Tools: The New Cyberthreat Reality
HITRUST’s Tom Kellermann on Third-Party Risk, Defending Against Persistent Access. Island hopping, AI poisoning and access mining are reshaping cyber risk. Tom Kellermann of HITRUST says organizations must modernize third-party risk management practices and assess AI environments to stop attackers from using trusted infrastructure as a launch pad for broader campaigns. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Top cybersecurity conferences to attend in 2026
Security experts will come together to hear about the latest risk management strategies, novel hacking techniques, cyber governance and the technologies enterprises need to defend their networks. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/top-cybersecurity-conferences-2026/802238/
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Network security devices endanger orgs with ’90s era flaws
Tags: access, application-security, apt, authentication, breach, cisa, cisco, citrix, cloud, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, dos, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, firmware, flaw, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, injection, ivanti, jobs, linux, mitigation, mobile, network, open-source, penetration-testing, programming, regulation, remote-code-execution, reverse-engineering, risk, risk-management, router, service, software, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerability, zero-day2024 networking and security device zero-day flaws Product CVE Flaw type CVSS Check Point Quantum Security Gateways and CloudGuard Network Security CVE-2024-24919 Path traversal leading to information disclosure 8.6 (High) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2024-20359 Arbitrary code execution 6.6 (Medium) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2024-20353 Denial of service 8.6 (High) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance …
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Kritische Infrastrukturen: Risikomanagement in Datenzentren
Ein Systemausfall in einem Rechenzentrum gleicht einem Blackout mit potenziell verheerenden wirtschaftlichen Konsequenzen. Studien belegen eindrucksvoll die finanziellen Risiken: Bereits eine Ausfallstunde kann Unternehmen zwischen 1 und 5 Millionen US-Dollar kosten [1]. Hauptursache für längere Ausfälle sind laut einer Studie des Uptime Institute vor allem Probleme mit der Stromversorgung [2] ein Risikofaktor, der durch… First…
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TDL 007 – Cyber Warriors Digital Shadows: Insights from Canada’s Cybersecurity Leader
Tags: ai, awareness, backup, breach, browser, business, cio, ciso, communications, conference, control, corporate, country, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, defense, dns, email, encryption, finance, government, healthcare, identity, incident, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, jobs, law, leak, linux, malicious, mfa, mitigation, network, organized, phone, privacy, ransom, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, risk-management, router, service, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, windowsSummary In this episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop interviews Sami Khoury, the Senior Official for Cybersecurity for the Government of Canada. With a career spanning 33 years at the Communication Security Establishment (CSE), Khoury shares how a coincidental job application blossomed into a lifelong passion for national security. Khoury emphasizes that modern…
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Qualys erweitert sein Enterprise-Trurisk-Management mit integrierter AgenticFabric
Qualys hat leistungsstarke neue Funktionen in Qualys-Enterprise-Trurisk-Management (ETM) vorgestellt, die das proaktive Risikomanagement stärken und Unternehmen dabei helfen, neue und aufkommende Angriffsvektoren im Zeitalter der agentenbasierten KI vorherzusagen und sich davor zu schützen. Die auf der Flaggschiff-Konferenz ‘Risk Operations Conference” (ROCon) von Qualys in Houston angekündigten Verbesserungen stärken die Identitätssicherheit für menschliche und nicht-menschliche Identitäten,…
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Qualys erweitert sein Enterprise-Trurisk-Management mit integrierter AgenticFabric
Qualys hat leistungsstarke neue Funktionen in Qualys-Enterprise-Trurisk-Management (ETM) vorgestellt, die das proaktive Risikomanagement stärken und Unternehmen dabei helfen, neue und aufkommende Angriffsvektoren im Zeitalter der agentenbasierten KI vorherzusagen und sich davor zu schützen. Die auf der Flaggschiff-Konferenz ‘Risk Operations Conference” (ROCon) von Qualys in Houston angekündigten Verbesserungen stärken die Identitätssicherheit für menschliche und nicht-menschliche Identitäten,…
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AI and Cyber Control Assessment for Risk Visibility – Kovrr
Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/ai-and-cyber-control-assessment-for-risk-visibility-kovrr/
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AI and Cyber Control Assessment for Risk Visibility – Kovrr
Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/ai-and-cyber-control-assessment-for-risk-visibility-kovrr/