Tag: training
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MacOS Under Attack: How Organizations Can Counter Rising Threats
Not only are attacks against macOS users ramping up, but threat actors have proved to be advanced with deepfake technology. Security awareness training may be the best defense. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/mac-under-attack-how-organizations-can-counter-rising-threats
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5 hard truths of a career in cybersecurity, and how to navigate them
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, awareness, best-practice, breach, business, cio, ciso, conference, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, finance, firewall, framework, gartner, identity, ISO-27001, jobs, mitigation, network, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, skills, strategy, technology, threat, training, wafCybersecurity teams protect systems but neglect people: After all the effort it takes to break into cybersecurity, professionals often end up on teams that don’t feel welcoming or supportive.Jinan Budge, a research director at Forrester who focuses on enabling CISOs and other technical leaders, believes the way most cybersecurity career paths are structured plays a…
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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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Cisco Talos Researcher Reveals Method That Causes LLMs to Reveal Training Data
In this TechRepublic interview, researcher Amy Chang details the decomposition method and shares how organizations can protect themselves from LLM data extraction. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-cisco-talos-generative-ai-llm-decomposition/
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Backdoors & Breaches: How Talos is helping humanitarian aid NGOs prepare for cyber attacks
In 2023, Cisco Talos and partners created a special Backdoors & Breaches card deck to help NGOs improve their cybersecurity skills with practical, easy-to-use training tailored to their needs. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/backdoors-breaches-how-talos-is-helping-humanitarian-aid-ngos-prepare-for-cyber-attacks/
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Turning Human Vulnerability Into Organizational Strength
Investing in building a human-centric defense involves a combination of adaptive security awareness training, a vigilant and skeptical culture, and the deployment of layered technical controls. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/human-vulnerability-organizational-strength
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MCP: securing the backbone of Agentic AI
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, business, ciso, control, credentials, cyber, data, detection, injection, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, RedTeam, risk, security-incident, service, supply-chain, trainingFour cornerstones for securing MCP servers: CISOs can largely rely on the proven basic principles of cyber security for MCP they just need to adapt them in a few places. Pure checklists fall short here. Instead, a clear, principles-based approach is required. Four central pillars have proven themselves in practice: Strong authentication and clean credential…
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6 things keeping CISOs up at night
Tags: access, ai, attack, breach, business, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, data-breach, deep-fake, email, exploit, infrastructure, jobs, metric, password, phishing, regulation, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityAI’s potential to create a competency crisis: At mental health organization Headspace CISO Jameeka Aaron sees many potential applications for AI but she is balancing enablement with caution. However, Aaron is particularly concerned about the impact of generative AI on the hiring process.While strong developers can leverage AI to their advantage, weaker developers may appear…
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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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Black Hat 2025: Latest news and insights
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, ciso, cloud, conference, crowdstrike, cvss, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, email, exploit, finance, firmware, flaw, group, hacker, hacking, identity, Internet, LLM, malicious, malware, reverse-engineering, sap, service, threat, tool, training, update, usa, vulnerability, windowsBlack Hat USAAugust 2-7, 2025Las Vegas, NVBlack Hat USA 2025 returns to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas on August 2-7. The annual event is a perennial magnet for cybersecurity professionals, researchers, vendors and othersThe week kicks off on August 2 with four days of cybersecurity training courses. The courses cover a range…
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Summer: Why cybersecurity must be strengthened as vacations abound
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, backup, control, corporate, credentials, cybersecurity, data, detection, email, encryption, exploit, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, monitoring, network, office, password, resilience, risk, theft, threat, tool, training, update, usa, vpn, wifiGuillermo Fernandez, Sales Engineer for Southern Europe at WatchGuard Technologies. WatchGuard Technologies.Another important point is that, during the summer, attackers know that many IT and cybersecurity teams are operating with more limited resources or with staff on vacation. “They take advantage of this to launch phishing campaigns and other targeted attacks, aware that attention and vigilance often…
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SentinelLabs uncovers China’s hidden cyber-espionage arsenal
CSOonline that the most important pieces of new information gleaned from the findings are that “China’s contracting ecosystem forces many companies and individuals to collaborate on intrusions. This means many China-based Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) may actually contain many different companies with many different clients.”The nation’s diverse private sector offensive ecosystem, he said, “supports a…
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Mind the overconfidence gap: CISOs and staff don’t see eye to eye on security posture
Tags: ai, attack, awareness, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, grc, group, hacker, identity, incident response, intelligence, international, least-privilege, metric, network, phishing, ransomware, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, soc, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, updateMisplaced priorities: Investments often favor visibility and compliance over “core capabilities like detection engineering, incident response, and threat containment,” according to Santiago Pontiroli, lead security researcher at cybersecurity vendor Acronis TRU.Delayed adaptation: AI-driven threats demand faster, smarter defenses, but key upgrades (such as behavior-based analytics or automation) are often postponed due to underestimated risk, according…
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How CISOs can scale down without compromising security
Tags: breach, business, ciso, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, detection, finance, framework, gartner, governance, intelligence, jobs, metric, open-source, regulation, resilience, risk, soc, strategy, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityStrategic risk (high, medium, low): What’s the actual exposure if this control fails?Business alignment: Which functions are enabling revenue, customer trust, or compliance?No-brainers: These are redundant tools, shelfware, or “security theatre” controls that look good on paper but deliver no measurable protection.For this assessment, Mahdi brings together a cross-functional team that includes business unit leaders,…
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Cyber Circle: Awareness Training neu gedacht
True Crime Cyber Video Prevention Podcast”, wie die beiden Akteure das neue Format mit einem Augenzwinkern benennen, wollen dabei vieles neu und anders machen. Ihr Anspruch ist es, die Zuschauer mit dem Format nicht nur zu informieren, sondern auch zu unterhalten.In der Erstausgabe des Video-Serie steht das Thema Awareness Training im Mittelpunkt. Studiogast Holger Könnecke…
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Cyber Circle: Awareness Training neu gedacht
True Crime Cyber Video Prevention Podcast”, wie die beiden Akteure das neue Format mit einem Augenzwinkern benennen, wollen dabei vieles neu und anders machen. Ihr Anspruch ist es, die Zuschauer mit dem Format nicht nur zu informieren, sondern auch zu unterhalten.In der Erstausgabe des Video-Serie steht das Thema Awareness Training im Mittelpunkt. Studiogast Holger Könnecke…
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Empathie trifft IT-Sicherheit: Der Weg zu gelebter Compliance
CISOs sollten Sicherheitsrichtlinien mit Blick auf die Belegschaft gestalten.In vielen Unternehmen stoßen IT-Sicherheitsrichtlinien auf Widerstand, da Mitarbeitende sie als hinderlich oder praxisfern empfinden. Dies erschwert die Umsetzung, untergräbt die Wirksamkeit und belastet die Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Sicherheitsabteilung und den Fachbereichen. Statt als Partner wird Cybersecurity oft als Bremser wahrgenommen ein fatales Sicherheitsrisiko. Für CISOs (Chief…
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KI-Training bei Meta: Umfrage der Verbraucherzentrale NRW gestartet
First seen on datensicherheit.de Jump to article: www.datensicherheit.de/ki-training-meta-umfrage-verbraucherzentrale-nrw
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Operation Dark Phone: Murder By Text this jaw-dropping tale of how police hacked gangs is like The Wire
This docu-drama is cleverly built around the messages intercepted by the National Crime Agency when they penetrated a chat network between criminal organisations. It’s hugely revealingPolice work rarely resembles The Shield or Line of Duty. It’s mostly paperwork, online training and referring people to driver offender courses. But sometimes life imitates art. In 2020, international…
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New Report Reveals Just 10% of Employees Drive 73% of Cyber Risk
Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, ceo, compliance, cyber, cybersecurity, data, finance, government, identity, office, phishing, resilience, risk, risk-management, strategy, technology, threat, trainingHuman risk is concentrated, not widespread: Just 10% of employees are responsible for nearly three-quarters (73%) of all risky behavior.Visibility is alarmingly low: Organizations relying solely on security awareness training (SAT) have visibility into only 12% of risky behavior, compared to 5X that for mature HRM programs.Risk is often misidentified: Contrary to popular belief, remote…
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From hardcoded credentials to auth gone wrong: Old bugs continue to break modern systems
Tags: ai, automation, ciso, credentials, endpoint, infrastructure, network, router, threat, tool, training, update, usa, vulnerabilityWhy are we still here?: For all the industry talk about development practices, threat modelling, and DevSecOps, the same root causes keep surfacing with surprising regularity. “Developing code without vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and shortcomings is hard,” Sampson said. “Despite advances in tooling, doing a quick fix that you promise to revisit later has less friction than…
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Is AI here to take or redefine your cybersecurity role?
Tags: ai, attack, automation, business, ceo, cloud, compliance, conference, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, data, governance, intelligence, jobs, monitoring, phishing, risk, skills, soc, software, strategy, technology, threat, training, vulnerability“AI is coming, and will take some jobs, but no need to worry.”That headline ran atop a CSO story published in 2016. Nine years later, the prediction feels closer to coming true, with questions around jobs being replaced or redefined and whether cybersecurity pros should be worried taking on greater nuance, and still hanging in…
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Cybersicherheit nur auf dem Papier? Drei von fünf Angestellten erhalten keine regelmäßigen IT-Sicherheitsschulungen
Gerade kritische Sektoren wie Gesundheit und Kommunen haben bei Security Awareness Trainings Nachholbedarf. Mehr als 60 Prozent der deutschen Arbeitnehmenden bekommen keine regelmäßigen Security Awareness Trainings trotz steigender Bedrohungslage durch Cyberangriffe. Die aktuelle Studie »Cybersicherheit in Zahlen« von G DATA CyberDefense, Statista und brand eins zeigt: Besonders kleine Unternehmen und kritische Branchen wie Gesundheit,… First…
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UK Creative Community, Big Tech Resume AI Copyright Talks
New Working Group Launched After 2 Failed Attempts to Resolve AI Training Impasse. The U.K. government on Wednesday began its latest round of talks between creative owners and the artificial intelligence sector to work out a potential deal on the use of copyrighted content to train AI models. The discussions follow two previous failed attempts.…