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STEPS FORWARD Q&A: Will ‘proactive security’ engender a shift to risk-based network protection?

The Last Watchdog

Something simply must be done to slow, and ultimately reverse, attack surface expansion. Companies are obsessed with leveraging cloud-hosted IT infrastructure and the speedy software development and deployment that goes along with that. Here’s what he had to say: LW: What is ‘proactive security’ and why is it gaining traction?

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 3)

The Last Watchdog

ai Antani Many speculated that the ransomware attack on a Toyota supply chain player in Kojima, Japan was in retaliation for Japan’s aid to Ukraine. Generative AI is expected to supercharge the velocity and precision of attacks. Consumers will begin to see their favorite applications touting “quantum-secure encryption.”

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Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys

Krebs on Security

” Peter, who spoke candidly about the attack on condition of anonymity, said the FBI told him to contact a cybersecurity consulting firm in New Jersey called Unit 221B , and specifically its founder — Lance James. .” Then came the unlikely call from an FBI agent. “Don’t pay,” the agent said.

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Thales 2023 Data Threat Report: Sovereignty, Transformation, and Global Challenges

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Organizations balanced security and privacy risks with opportunities opened by new technologies and business models. This article highlights the key findings of the report. 55% of respondents who experienced a recent cloud data breach said human error is the #1 root cause of cloud data breaches.

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12 Types of Vulnerability Scans & When to Run Each

eSecurity Planet

Vulnerability scanning is critically important for identifying security flaws in hardware and software, but vulnerability scanning types are as varied as the IT environments they’re designed to protect. To centrally launch vulnerability scans or establish an automatic schedule, this approach requires administrator-credentialed access.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

Indeed, APIs have opened new horizons of cloud services, mobile computing and IoT infrastructure, with much more to come. Yet, in bringing us here, APIs have also spawned a vast new tier of security holes. Yet, API security risks haven’t gotten the attention they deserve.

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Enterprise SIEMs Miss 76 Percent of MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

eSecurity Planet

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems only have detections for 24 percent of the 196 techniques in MITRE ATT&CK v13, according to a new report. “This implies that adversaries can execute around 150 different techniques that will be undetected by the SIEM,” says the CardinalOps report.

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