elastic

Strengthening small utilities: The power of public-private partnership

Feb 16, 2024 By Bill Wright In Elastic
In the wake of recent cyber attacks against US water utilities, the vulnerability of local entities dependent on operational technology (OT) has been starkly highlighted. This danger was further emphasized last week when Congress held a hearing titled Securing Operational Technology: A Deep Dive into the Water Sector. Witnesses at the hearing painted a stark picture of the significant cybersecurity risks facing small utility companies today.
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cloudflare

Monitoring machine learning models for bot detection

Feb 16, 2024 By Daniel Means In Cloudflare
Cloudflare’s Bot Management is used by organizations around the world to proactively detect and mitigate automated bot traffic. To do this, Cloudflare leverages machine learning models that help predict whether a particular HTTP request is coming from a bot or not, and further distinguishes between benign and malicious bots. Cloudflare serves over 55 million HTTP requests per second — so our machine learning models need to run at Cloudflare scale.
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protecto

EU AI Act Developments and More - This Month in AI

Feb 16, 2024 By Rahul Sharma In Protecto
In a historic move, European Union member countries have unanimously agreed on the groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence Act. This achievement comes after overcoming last-minute concerns that the rulebook might impede European innovation. The EU deputy ambassadors provided the green light to the final compromise text, marking the conclusion of extensive negotiations between the Council, European Parliament members, and European Commission officials.
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Bleeding Credit Unions Dry: The Story of Sloppy and Broken Operations

Feb 16, 2024 By CISO Global In CISO Global
How vulnerable are credit unions, the bedrock of community finance, to rapidly advancing cyber threats? Very. Join CISO Global's Chris Clements, Tigran Safari, James Montagne, and special guest Iwona Karpeta as they discuss recent attacks against credit unions, how they responded, and how their customers were impacted. Speakers: Chris Clements is the VP of Solutions Architecture for CISO Global. Chris has spent more than two decades working in the information security field and has a wide range of experience, including business management, sales, product, and service delivery.
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informer

How Can Continuous Asset Monitoring Protect Critical Assets?

Feb 16, 2024 By Alastair Digby In Informer
The increase in cyberattacks increases year-on-year with attacks being more and more sophisticated. It’s a daunting task for security teams to adapt security strategies to proactively mitigate threats against the backdrop of a shortage of cybersecurity talent and budgets stretched. This is leading to organisations adopting proactive defence strategies using tools with continuous monitoring capabilities.
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vista infosec

PCI DSS Requirement 6 - Changes from v3.2.1 to v4.0 Explained

Feb 16, 2024 By Narendra Sahoo In VISTA InfoSec
Welcome back to our series on PCI DSS Requirement Changes from v3.2.1 to v4.0. Today, we’re discussing Requirement 6, which is crucial for protecting cardholder data. It mandates the use of vendor-supplied security patches and secure coding practices for in-house developed applications. These measures help mitigate vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit. The requirement also emphasizes the importance of vigilance in identifying and remediating vulnerabilities.
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idstrong

Weekly Cybersecurity Recap February 16

Feb 16, 2024 By Steven In IDStrong
This week was particularly active in Cybersecurity—attacks rained upon all states, from the Great Basin of Nevada to the Volcanoes of Hawaii. The week began with an announcement out of Texas: U.S. Renal Care found exposed information from a vendor breach in 2023, impacting over 132k patients. Connecticut College was also featured this week; investigations are ongoing, but victims shouldn’t wait to protect themselves. The public also got an update on the PJ&A data breach from 2023.
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alienvault

Strong results in third-party testing confirm AT&T Cybersecurity as an XDR leader

Feb 16, 2024 By Belinda Streak In AT&T Cybersecurity
Here at AT&T Cybersecurity, we know that the technology powering our managed detection and response services is solid—and we’ve got documentation to prove it. But we also know you’ve probably read your share of marketing materials making claims with nothing to back them up, so when we get the opportunity to share third-party metrics that support what we’ve been saying, we jump on it.
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