In the modern digital age, cybersecurity has never been more crucial — or more challenging. As organizations become more connected and reliant on technology, their attack surfaces expand. The classic adage, “An organization is only as secure as its weakest link,” has never been more relevant. APIs are the backbone of digital age – connecting everything – customers/vendors/partners and power most of the technology today including GenAI.

Trust is critical to the success of every business. And in 2024, we saw that building, scaling, and demonstrating trust is getting more difficult for organizations. ‍ Vanta’s second annual State of Trust Report uncovered key trends across security, compliance, and the future of trust. Based on a survey of 2,500 IT and business leaders in the U.S., UK, and Australia, our research found that more than half (55%) of organizations say that security risks for their business have never been higher.

SAQ A-EP is a key focus of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) version 4, which introduces changes affecting merchants. Designed for e-commerce merchants who partially outsource their payment processing but have website elements impacting transaction security, SAQ A-EP ensures compliance with these updated requirements. This article clarifies these changes and outlines the top 5 actions SAQ A-EP merchants should take before March 31, 2025.

Your organization can achieve zero-standing privilege by following best practices such as enforcing least privilege access, implementing Just-in-Time (JIT) access and continuously monitoring and auditing privileged access. Following these best practices ensures that privileged access is granted only when necessary, and for the shortest duration possible, significantly reducing your organization’s attack surface and enhancing overall security.

Looking back on 2024 to start the new year, we had the great opportunity to host and be part of several conversations and demonstrations that we hope were valuable learning opportunities for everyone who joined us. Let’s take a moment to review some of the highlights from those 2024 events before we leap into 2025.

Credential phishing attacks surged by 703% in the second half of 2024, according to a report by SlashNext. Phishing attacks overall saw a 202% increase during the same period. “Since June, the number of attacks per 1,000 mailboxes each week has increased linearly,” the researchers write. “Currently, we are capturing close to one advanced attack per mailbox each week. As we reach the 1,000 threshold, this translates to nearly one advanced attack for every single mailbox each month.

On November 12th, 2024, at the Pavilion Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Snyk’s Field CTO, Pas Apicella, delivered an insightful presentation at the Digital Banking Asia Summit 2024 in Malaysia. Titled, ‘Securing the Digital Future: Best Practices for Application Security in Digital Banking’, his talk focused on actionable strategies to address pressing challenges in the financial services industry.

Even the simplest mistakes can leave your data wide open to cyber threats. If the worst happens and there’s an attack, cybercriminals gain free-for-all access to your cloud resources. They tamper with your data, disrupt workflows, and steal sensitive information, meaning the need for Privileged Access Management (PAM) best practices are more indispensable than ever for any robust cloud security strategy.

The Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has launched an effort to improve cybersecurity measures for a wide variety of healthcare organizations. The aim is to counter the significant increase in the number of breaches and cyberattacks impacting healthcare along with the common deficiencies OCR has observed in its investigations into Security Rule compliance, cybersecurity guidelines, best practices, methodologies, procedures, and processes.

As the adoption of cloud-native technologies like containers, Kubernetes, and microservices have evolved, traditional security solutions have struggled to keep up. According to the Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT), the average time it takes an attacker to perform reconnaissance and complete an attack is just 10 minutes. To help teams outpace attackers, cloud-native application protection platforms have emerged.