Best-selling writer Maria Konnikova once wrote, “Fraud thrives in moments of great social change and transition.” These words ring truer than ever as additional aspects of business and everyday life move swiftly online. Whether you think about eCommerce, remote work, online banking, or digital government services, the opportunities for fraudsters continue to multiply. The online world currently creates such a fertile ground for fraudulent activity that U.S.

When it comes to how employees get work done, personal devices are an ever-growing part of the equation. The 2023 Lookout State of Remote Work Security Report found that 92% of remote workers have performed work tasks on their personal mobile devices. While putting security controls on employer-owned devices is a no-brainer, the increasing overlap of personal with professional means that organizations need to think about how to secure employee-owned devices that are being used for work.

Risk. It’s more than just an infuriating board game from your childhood. And when identity risk is involved in your cybersecurity landscape – and it will be involved, since identity is one of the most easily accessible and most frequently attacked facets of your IT environment – the potential consequences of its compromise extend well beyond losing control of a fantasy continent on a game board.

Email is a well-known and widely used attack vector for malware distribution, phishing, and many other types of threats. For this reason, we evaluate certain email security practices as part of the Diligence category of risk vectors used to calculate Bitsight Security Ratings. On April 30, 2024, we added a new email security evaluation focused on the use of Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) records.

While AI has created exciting new opportunities for business, it has created urgent questions around ethics, responsible use, development, and management. AI also introduces a new, and often nebulous, element of organizational risk. With the introduction of two frameworks, ISO 42001 and NIST AI RMF, companies can now implement, demonstrate, track, and build their responsibility and trust around AI. TrustCloud is very pleased to announce that we support both ISO 42001 and NIST AI RMF.

You know us: Every month we’re cooking up something new! Here are the updates that hit TrustCloud this month. TrustShare GraphAI will answer questionnaires for you with accurate, high-quality responses. TrustShare is getting a huge AI glow up. GraphAI’s generative AI capabilities will now fill in answers that are more context aware, more natural, and more accurate than ever before.