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Digital advancement has drastically changed businesses' operations, including increasing global data flows. One consequential aspect of this transformation is the transfer of data across national borders, which poses significant legal, privacy, and security challenges. The EU-US Privacy Shield was a critical agreement that previously protected data transferred between the European Union and the United States.

Despite investing in costly security solutions, keeping up with patches, and educating employees about suspicious emails, breaches still occur, leaving many organizations to wonder why they are vulnerable and which security areas need improvement.

Given the recent exciting news of Splunk becoming part of Cisco, for this edition of Splunk SOAR Playbook of the Month, we thought what better way to showcase how the combination of Cisco and Splunk can help users achieve more comprehensive security than through a playbook that combines the power of Cisco Umbrella and Splunk SOAR.

In a network each user, whether verified or not, is given a security identifier (SID), a virtual name tag. This unique identifier helps with managing users, giving administrators the ability to control on an individual level the rights and permissions of users, authentication and providing an overall level of security. A SID also hides private information of users such as the real names of the accounts, adding an additional layer of protection.

Just a few weeks ago, we wrote about how the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is seriously behind in enriching CVEs. On LinkedIn, Mastodon, and other social sites, the NVD’s mounting backlog and what should be done about it has become a hot topic of conversation within the cybersecurity community.

The world of payments is having its “Henry Ford” moment. Traditional organizations in the industry, from payment service providers (PSPs) to banks, are still using the equivalent of horses for settlement and cross-border transactions. In contrast, innovative startups and certain forward-looking incumbents have embraced this industry’s Model T – blockchain technology. The results that payments providers exploring blockchain have reported thus far can’t be ignored.

Account takeover (ATO) fraud poses a serious and personal threat, especially when it compromises something as critical as your bank account. Imagine the shock and helplessness of discovering you’re suddenly barred from accessing your own financial resources. This violation isn’t just about unauthorized transactions or financial losses; it’s a profound breach of your privacy.

At Bitsight, part of the core work of the Vulnerability Research team is to analyze new high-profile vulnerabilities and ensure we come up with ways to detect, at an internet-wide scale, who is affected by these. Sometimes - more often than not - the direct exploitation of these vulnerabilities is significantly intrusive, and thus we can not load a direct port of the publicly available Proofs-of-Concept onto our internet scanning infrastructure.

This is the final post in a series about shadow IT. In this series, we’ve detailed how and why teams use unapproved apps and devices, and cybersecurity approaches for securely managing it. For a complete overview of the topics discussed in this series, download Managing the unmanageable: How shadow IT exists across every team – and how to wrangle it.

‍ “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” ‍ In the earliest days of cyber risk management, chief information security officers (CISOs) generally relied on matrices and other subjective risk assessments for strategic planning.