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Top 10 Best-Known Cybersecurity Incidents and What to Learn from Them

Negligent or malicious behavior by those who have legitimate access to your systems can be more devastating to your company than the efforts of outside attackers. The 2023 Cost of Insider Risk Global Report by the Ponemon Institute shows that cybersecurity incidents caused by insiders through negligence, credential theft, and malicious intent had an average cost per incident of $505,113, $679,621, and $701,500, respectively.

Opportunities and Challenges with Artificial Intelligence for Educators and Students

Experts believe that AI is still in its early phases of development. Regardless, its impact may make people think it has always been there. The education sector has benefited from this technology in a big way. Educators use it to create resources that help with teaching. AI lets them create personalized teaching strategies. They use it to offer adaptive and immersive teaching including automated grading. Students use AI to make the best choice of courses and learning resources. It helps them develop creativity and other important skills.

Top 4 Network Security Risks

Network security integrates different processes, devices, and technologies into a broad plan that safeguards your computer networks' integrity, accessibility, and confidentiality. It keeps your networking infrastructure safe from malicious acts like manipulation and unauthorized access. Network security risks allow malicious actors to cause significant damage to your network while exposing your company's sensitive data. Discussed below are the top four network security risks.

Maximizing Network Performance: Strategies for Ensuring Connectivity in High-Density Wi-Fi Environments

The demand for uninterrupted online access is at an all-time high, especially in crowded areas with high user density. This article explores how to solve issues related to 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, and implementing practical strategies for ensuring robust connectivity in high-density environments.

Global DDoS Weapons in 2024: Bots Run Wild

What do you get when you bring soaring numbers of connected devices online around the world—more than 29 billion by 2027? For consumers and businesses, the Internet of Things (IoT) promises a life of ever-increasing convenience, efficiency, and insight. Unfortunately, cybercriminals have just as much to celebrate.

kntrl integrates Open Policy Agent

Addressing the security intricacies of sophisticated automation frameworks, in our case the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) environments, is always challenging. The inherent complexity of such environments, characterized by the multitude of components that are each performing distinct tasks, necessitates a dynamic and adaptable rule engine to ensure the security of our pipelines.

Creating a Vendor Risk Assessment Framework (6-Step Guide)

Vendor Risk Assessment processes form the core of a Vendor Risk Management program. As such, the efficiency of a VRM program is ultimately dependent on the design of its risk assessment processes. This post guides you through the design of an efficient vendor risk assessment framework in six steps. By implementing this framework, you can establish an efficient risk assessment workflow built upon a scalable process foundation. Learn how UpGuard streamlines vendor risk assessments >

Vendor Risk Management Examples

You understand the importance of a Vendor Risk Management strategy in mitigating the impact of third-party data breaches. However, you’re still unsure about its application to different vendor cyber risk contexts. To help you bridge this application gap and leverage the complete benefits of a Vendor Risk Management process, this post outlines three common examples of vendor security risks and how a VRM program could be tailored to address them. Learn how UpGuard streamlines Vendor Risk Management >