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Visible Risks Assessments in the Financial Services Industry

In a world with increased regulation, uncertainty in the banking business due to the climate or unforced errors, and liquidity concerns, the capability for risk management departments, auditors, and compliance departments to have timely access to reports and data that drive their decisions becomes more important than ever. Saying that you have enough data points is like saying you have enough security.

Spear Phishing: The Ultimate Guide To Seeing & Stopping Spear Phishing

When it comes to cyberattacks, the human dimension of the cybersecurity environment is a complex vulnerability. Without awareness, any employee, contractor or user is the most unprotected asset. A person who can be easily exploited with a social engineering attack. Because of inherent human characteristics — ignorance, fear, misplaced trust — people are by nature very susceptible to being manipulated to let down their guard.

What Generative AI Means For Cybersecurity: Risk & Reward

In recent years, generative artificial intelligence (AI), especially Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, has revolutionized the fields of AI and natural language processing. From automating customer support to creating realistic chatbots, we rely on AI much more than many of us probably realize. The AI hype train definitely reached full steam in the last several months, especially for cybersecurity use cases, with the release of tools such as.

AI TRiSM Explained: AI Trust, Risk & Security Management

AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (AI TRiSM) is an emerging technology trend that will revolutionize businesses in coming years. The AI TRiSM framework helps identify, monitor and reduce potential risks associated with using AI technology in organizations. By using this framework, organizations can ensure compliance with all relevant regulations and data privacy laws. In this article, you'll learn what AI TRiSM is, how it works, and how organizations can use it for their benefit.

How Data Resilience Drives Customer, Cyber & Business Resilience

With evolving cyber threats and sudden disasters, data resilience is among the critical components of any business. Data resilience helps businesses provide continuous, uninterrupted services to their customers. This article explains data resilience, its importance for current businesses, and the most common strategies to achieve data resilience. It also describes the advantages and challenges of achieving business data resilience.

AsyncRAT Crusade: Detections and Defense

In January 2019 AsyncRAT was released as an open source remote administration tool project on GitHub. AsyncRAT is a popular malware commodity and tools used by attackers and APT groups. Threat actors and adversaries used several interesting script loaders and spear phishing attachments to deliver AsyncRAT to targeted hosts or networks in different campaigns.

Common Cybersecurity Jobs: Skills, Responsibilities & Salaries

Looking for a stable job in tech? Cybersecurity is one of the fastest growing employment segments — with a zero percent unemployment rate! This is a promising field for new graduates in the technology sector with strong backgrounds in systems design, data and mathematics. What roles and responsibilities can you expect in the cybersecurity domain? Here is a list of cybersecurity roles, their responsibilities, skills required and average annual salary.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Explained: Meaning, Benefits, Challenges & Implementation

Enterprises these days are facing a triple threat: stiffer government policies, volatile cyberspace and an extra-competitive economy. And without a well-planned strategy, it will be hard to survive all these and hit high-performance goals. Hence the need for an effective GRC strategy. Since its invention in 2003, GRC as a strategy for achieving organizational goals amidst uncertainty and with integrity, has stayed true to its primary purpose. Despite the increasing turbulence in the economy.

My Username Fields Have Passwords in Them! What Do I Do?

As security practitioners, we like to read blogs, whitepapers, and even Mastodon “toots” that talk about new or novel threats and vulnerabilities. Recently, our fearless and never sleeping Security Strategist Leader James Brodsky called attention to a blog post from a researcher that highlighted the risks of password disclosure in authentication logs.

The SQL Injection Guide: Attacks, Types, Signs & Defense Against SQLi

Most dynamic web applications and sites — ones that store and process user information — use some sort of database implementation. One of the most common implementations involves SQL. Structured Query Language is a standard language for relational database management systems (RDBMS). It lets you query database records, change and modify them, set permissions, create custom views and storage procedures.