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Check Point Product Sales Slump as Customers Delay Purchases

Data Breach Today

CEO Gil Shwed Pushes for More Productive Sales Force Amid Postponed Refresh Check Point's product sales have taken their biggest nosedive since 2018 as customers extend sales cycles and postpone projects while prospects decline to buy new products. The company said businesses have increasingly delayed product refresh projects since November in an effort to tighten budgets.

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What policymakers need to know about foundation models

IBM Big Data Hub

The last few years—even the last few months—have seen artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs come at a dizzying pace. AI that can generate paragraphs of text as well as a human, create realistic imagery and video from text, or perform hundreds of different tasks has captured the public’s attention. People see AI’s high level of performance, creative potential and, in some cases, the ability for anyone to use them with little to no technical expertise.

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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Open Source License Compliance and M&A Activity

Data Breach Today

Join this webinar to learn more about: What’s the risk of not evaluating open source in M&A? How can companies prepare to avoid legal risks of non-compliance What is the role of open source license compliance?

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5 Ways CIAM Enables Effective, Secure Business Partner Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

5 Ways CIAM Enables Effective, Secure Business Partner Identity Management madhav Tue, 05/02/2023 - 05:40 Businesses and their partners must work together without barriers to maximize customer value. The difficulty lies in determining how to make the most of their collaboration in a flexible, scalable, agile, and secure way. At its core, this challenge calls for a robust CIAM platform to help connect and protect organizations’ business-to-business ecosystems.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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How to Better Educate 'Citizen Data Scientists' on AI and ML

Data Breach Today

Tom Scanlon of Carnegie Mellon University on New Certificate Program There is a growing need for "citizen data scientists," such as engineers and programmers, to better understand the inner workings of AI and ML as those technologies become more ubiquitous, said Tom Scanlon, technical manager of the CERT data science team at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Moving from Alerts to Action: An Agency Exclusive SOAR Discussion

Data Breach Today

Join us for this lively session where we will share some lessons learned from deploying SOAR as well as: Top things to consider before you deploy automation Breaking down a process into an automated workflow Some "low-hanging fruit" use cases for immediate time savings Insights from Cortex XSOAR customer telemetry to see how your peers are deploying automation

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Phishing Attack Frequency Rises Nearly 50% as Some Sectors Increase by as Much as 576%

KnowBe4

New data provides a multi-faceted look at the changing face of phishing attacks. This data includes who’s being targeted, the tactics being used, and why phishing attacks continue to work.

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Google banned 173k developer accounts in 2022

Security Affairs

In 2022, Google prevented 1.43 million policy-violating apps from being published in the official Google Play store. Google announced that it prevented 1.43 million policy-violating applications from being published on Google Play in 2022. The IT giant also announced it has banned 173k developer accounts and prevented over $2 billion in fraudulent and abusive transactions.

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How to optimize Google Cloud Platform cloud costs with IBM Turbonomic

IBM Big Data Hub

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) enables customers to build, manage and deploy modern, scalable applications to achieve digital business success. However, due to its complexity, achieving operational excellence in the cloud is difficult. Fundamentally, as a Cloud Operator, you need to ensure great end-user experiences while staying within budget. In this blog post, we will review the various methods of GCP cloud cost management, what problems they address and how GCP users can best use them.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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New Lobshot hVNC malware spreads via Google ads

Security Affairs

The previously undetected LOBSHOT malware is distributed using Google ads and gives operators VNC access to Windows devices. Researchers from Elastic Security Labs spotted a new remote access trojan dubbed LOBSHOT was being distributed through Google Ads. Threat actors are using an elaborate scheme of fake websites through Google Ads to spread their malware, the backdoors are embedded in installers for apparently legitimate applications, such as AnyDesk.

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Is Artificial Intelligence relevant to insurance?

IBM Big Data Hub

I love the game of chess and was shocked when IBM’s Deep Blue chess-playing machine defeated the world chess champion in 1997. That ground-shaking event divided the world with excitement and trepidation about a future with thinking machines. In this first of two posts, I investigate the anatomy of artificial intelligence and its impact on insurance.

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German IT provider Bitmarck hit by cyberattack

Security Affairs

Bitmarck, one of the largest IT service providers for social insurance carriers in Germany, announced yesterday that it has suffered a cyber attack. The German IT service provider Bitmarck announced on April 30 it had taken all its systems offline due to a cyberattack. The incident impacted statutory health insurance companies that have their IT operated by BITMARCK.

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Automate Reporting for Security Awareness Training Events and Suspicious Email Remediation Management with Cortex XSOAR and KnowBe4

KnowBe4

Security teams face unique challenges in today’s rapidly-changing landscape of phishing , malware, and other social engineering and cybersecurity threats. Collaboration across disparate teams and siloed tools adds additional layers of complexity to security teams’ day-to-day operations. When security teams use different systems for simulated phishing, security awareness training, incident response and remediation, it is difficult to track and optimize the full lifecycle of an incident.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Iranian govt uses BouldSpy Android malware for internal surveillance operations

Security Affairs

Iranian authorities have been spotted using the BouldSpy Android malware to spy on minorities and traffickers. Researchers at the Lookout Threat Lab have discovered a new Android surveillance spyware, dubbed BouldSpy, that was used by the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FARAJA). The researchers are tracking the spyware since March 2020, starting in 2023, multiple security experts [ 1 , 2 ] started monitoring its activity.

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Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: Regulatory Risks of Ephemeral Messages

Data Matters

Corporate use of ephemeral messaging applications (communications that disappear after a set time) has become increasingly common across the globe in recent years, with companies recognizing its value in decreasing data storage costs and providing employees a convenient method for communicating quickly with customers and clients. However, the prevalence of these messaging applications in the corporate context has caused regulators to grow concerned about how encrypted and ephemeral messaging mig

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Experts spotted a new sophisticated malware toolkit called Decoy Dog

Security Affairs

Infoblox researchers discovered a new sophisticated malware toolkit, dubbed Decoy Dog, targeting enterprise networks. While analyzing billions of DNS records, Infoblox researchers discovered a sophisticated malware toolkit, dubbed Decoy Dog, that was employed in attacks aimed at enterprise networks. Threat actors behind the malware were observed using known tricks to avoid detection such as registering a domain, but not using it for some time (domain aging technique) and DNS query dribbling.

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What the Cybersecurity Industry Can Learn From the SVB Crisis

Dark Reading

The banking industry has safeguards designed to mitigate financial risk, something the cybersecurity industry can learn from.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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erwin by Quest advances erwin Data Vault automation and certification efforts

erwin

The World Wide Data Vault Consortium ( WWDVC 2023 ) started today and erwin ® by Quest ® , one of the few active participants working toward a Data Vault 2.0 certification with the DataVaultAlliance , is announcing major advancements in our erwin Data Vault Automation solution. erwin by Quest provides a comprehensive suite of automation, data modeling, data intelligence, and data governance capabilities to data vault teams.

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APT28 Employs Windows Update Lures to Trick Ukrainian Targets

Dark Reading

The phishing emails were sent using names of system administrators and a letter containing instructions to protect against hackers.

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The Security Event 2023: The Key Top Takeaways  

HID Global

The Security Event 2023 discussed and displayed the latest solutions for keeping organizations safe as well as predicting the future of physical access control.

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Name That Edge Toon: Fare Thee Well

Dark Reading

Come up with a clever caption, and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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How to build a cloud security strategy after migration via TechTarget

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BlackCat Trolls Western Digital With Leaked Response Meeting Image

Dark Reading

The ransomware group adds in personal insults to ratchet up pressure on Western Digital threat hunters.

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T-Mobile suffered the second data breach in 2023

Security Affairs

T-Mobile disclosed the second data breach of 2023, threat actors had access to the personal information of hundreds of customers since February. T-Mobile suffered the second data breach of 2023, threat actors had access to the personal information of hundreds of customers starting in late February 2023. The security breach impacted a limited number of customers, only 836 individuals.

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Enterprise Strategy Group Research Reveals 75% of Organizations Change or Update APIs on a Daily or Weekly Basis

Dark Reading

According to the ESG Study, 92% of organizations have experienced at least one security incident related to insecure APIs in the past year.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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5 Must-Have Angular Grid Column-Based Features

Enterprise Software Blog

Creating and manipulating tabular data in web applications can be complex and challenging. You may face numerous challenges along the way like handling and manipulating complex data structures, especially when dealing with large data sets; dealing with multiple columns or complex data types; determining the appropriate sorting and filtering algorithms, handling user interactions, and more.

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US Wellness Provides Notification of Data Security Incident

Dark Reading

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The High-Stakes Scramble to Stop Classified Leaks

WIRED Threat Level

AI tools? A porn filter, but for Top Secret documents? Just classifying less stuff? US lawmakers are full of ideas but lack a silver bullet.