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The CISO Evolution: From Tactical Defender to Strategic Business Partner
The chief information security officer (CISO) role has changed dramatically from just a few short years ago. Once confined to technical security, CISOs have emerged as key strategic partners in the C-suite ...
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CrowdStrike Gets Grilled By U.S. Lawmakers Over Faulty Software Update
In what has become an annual ritual between Silicon Valley and the Beltway, a House subcommittee pressed a tech company over a glitch. And the company promised to do better. During a ...
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Manufacturing, Industrial Sectors Are Under Siege
Manufacturing and industrial sectors are becoming bigger cyber-targets, and many of the intrusions are coming from China. Those are among the sobering takeaways from a report Tuesday by Ontinue’s Advanced Threat Operations ...
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Facebook Whistleblower Fears Election Abuse
Frances Haugen, who famously blew the whistle on Facebook and its susceptibility to manipulation, has renewed concerns over the social-networking company. This time, she’s laser-focused on misinformation during the 2024 presidential election ...
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One-Third Of Companies Suffered SaaS Breach This Year
SaaS breaches are on the rise, and nearly half the corporate victims have more than 2,500 employees. Those are among the sobering conclusions from a survey of security experts at 644 organizations ...
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Black Hat Preview: CrowdStrike, Disinformation Lead The Narrative
Jon Swartz | | AI Security, Black Hat 2024, CrowdStrike incident;, disinformation, google, SolarWinds
As cybersecurity experts make their way to the one-armed bandits and scorching heat in Las Vegas for Black Hat USA 2024 next week, the specter of the CrowdStrike Inc. debacle looms large ...
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Top Data Breaches in 2024 [Month-wise]
A data breach. Headlines scream, investors and customers panic, fingers get pointed, and goodwill gets affected. Do you know how much a data breach can affect a company? Data breaches... The post ...
Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2024
This week, I hosted the seventeenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior at the Harvard Kennedy School. This is the first workshop since our co-founder, Ross Anderson, died unexpectedly. SHB is a ...
The Importance of Patching Vulnerabilities in Cybersecurity
One of the most critical yet often overlooked aspects of cybersecurity is the timely patching of vulnerabilities. While much attention is given to sophisticated phishing attacks and the menace of password brute-forcing, ...

Palo Alto Networks and IBM Align Cybersecurity Strategies
Palo Alto Networks is acquiring the QRadar SaaS offerings from IBM, and then will migrate users to its Cortex XSIAM SOC delivered as a cloud service ...
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