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The retail sector approaches the 2025 peak holiday season facing a perfect storm. We are no longer contending with opportunistic human fraudsters or rudimentary scripts. We face a tidal wave of autonomous, generative AI-powered agents capable of mimicking human behavior. According to Ran Arad, a subject matter expert at Memcyco, we must view phishing, digital impersonation, and account takeover (ATO) as an interrelated lifecycle. Usually, a phishing attack provides the link to an impersonating site.

Cyber security is a critical business enabler. Proactive cyber security measures, such as penetration testing, threat monitoring, and staff training, reduce the likelihood of breaches and operational disruption. However, demonstrating the return on investment (ROI) of these initiatives can be difficult to quantify.

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere nowadays. It helps teams to be more productive, but at the same time, it can threaten your critical project management data. The introduction of AI into Jira opened up new paths for attackers to exploit, new vulnerabilities coming up internally, and human errors. So, in this article, let’s speak about AI data loss in Jira and what measures to take to protect your sensitive data in Jira Cloud.

The automotive industry is undergoing a profound transformation. With vehicles now functioning as software-defined, connected platforms, manufacturers face unprecedented security challenges. From over-the-air (OTA) updates and telematics to ADAS, battery systems and mobility services, every vehicle today relies on digital identities and cryptographic trust. Historically, OEMs have relied heavily on Tier 1 suppliers to manage keys, certificates and firmware signing processes.

During the first half of 2025, APIs faced significantly higher number of attacks than traditional web applications. On average, attacks per API host were 72% higher than those targeting websites, and exploitation of API vulnerabilities surged 13× compared to a 27% increase for website vulnerabilities, according to the State of Application Security Global H1 2025.

APIs are now the foundation of SaaS product development, powering authentication, user onboarding, billing, integrations, webhooks, analytics, and internal microservices. As this API footprint grows, the threat landscape has intensified. The Indusface State of Application Security H1 2025 Report recorded a 104% rise in API-targeted attacks, a 13X increase in API vulnerability exploits, and 388% more DDoS attacks on API hosts than on websites.

Every automated workflow, microservice, and CI/CD integration needs credentials to run, but those credentials often live far longer and reach far wider than anyone intends. The result is a growing attack surface hidden in plain sight. Concerningly, 26% of organizations believe more than half of their service accounts are over-privileged. This is a staggering figure when you consider that machine identities now vastly outnumber human users by 80:1.

Think about your digital spaces. You’ve got your corporate email, which we all treat a bit like a high-security bank vault. We approach it with caution, we're suspicious of unfamiliar senders, and we’re primed to spot a dodgy attachment. Then, you have WhatsApp. That’s the digital equivalent of your living room. It’s comfy, familiar, and filled with people you (mostly) trust. Our guard is down.

Breaches got faster. Architectures got messier. And data stopped living in tidy tables. Modern stacks push personal and regulated data through microservices, data lakes, event streams, vector stores, and LLM prompts. Encryption still matters, but it protects containers, not behaviors. As soon as an app decrypts a record, risk comes roaring back.