This month's release rollup for product updates and enhancements includes the SANS Institute Report, Egnyte Sign, and Rules-based Metadata. Below is a summary of these and other new releases. Visit the articles linked below for more details.

This week caps off our year of cyber breaches; in this week alone, we saw millions of records stolen, targeted health providers, mortgage servicers crumble, and the return of a year-old breach. ESO Solutions made the news first, reporting 2.7 million patient records stolen from their emergency response software. HealthEC was featured in our reporting soon after, announcing a 112k record data breach from their health analytics platform.

National Amusements (NA) is in Norwood, Massachusetts. They are the majority shareholder for media sources, including CBS, Viacom, and Paramount. They operate thousands of movie theaters nationwide, including Showcase SuperLux, Cinema de Lux, Showcase Cinemas, and Multiplex Cinemas. NA’s widespread ties to the entertainment and news cycles may have made it a target. In December 2022, NA suffered a network breach; its report is one of the last to appear in the final days of 2023.

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Every time you deploy a new Cisco device, whether to handle network growth or as part of a product refresh cycle, someone needs to configure it to meet your unique needs. But configuring switches or routers is not a one-time event — support teams often need to add a new VLAN, change an access port to a trunk or add a new route to the routing table.

As 2023 comes to a close, we’re happy to report that we’ve had a successful year full of powerful product advancements and notable third-party recognition.

Working from home (WFH) has brought with it advantages such as flexibility and access to global talent, but it has also introduced new security threats to organizations. The shift to a remote or hybrid workforce has forced companies to adopt more software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, which has caused almost 40% of companies to lose control of their IT and security environments, according to data from a Cloudflare study.

The year 2024 is shaping up to be a pivotal moment in the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the realm of social engineering. As AI capabilities grow exponentially, so too do the opportunities for bad actors to harness these advancements for more sophisticated and potentially damaging social engineering attacks. Let's explore the top 10 expected AI developments of 2024 and their implications for cybersecurity.