Secure access control, part of the broader field of user management, is a key concept in the realm of information security, particularly in the business environment. It refers to the process of selectively restricting and allowing access to a place or resource. In the context of information technology, it is a vital element of data protection, dictating who or what can view or use specific resources in a computing environment.

Researchers at Pindrop have published a report looking at consumer interactions with AI-generated deepfakes and voice clones. “Consumers are most likely to encounter deepfakes and voice clones on social media,” the researchers write. “The top four responses for both categories were YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. You will note the bias toward video on these platforms as YouTube and TikTok encounters were materially higher.

If you’re responsible for creating a Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule, you’ll almost certainly need to reference a large list of potential values that each field can have. And having to manually manage and enter all those fields, for numerous WAF rules, would be a guaranteed headache.

In all the hullabaloo about AI, it strikes me that our attention gravitates far too quickly toward the most extreme arguments for its very existence. Utopia on the one hand. Dystopia on the other. You could say that the extraordinary occupies our minds far more than the ordinary. That’s hardly surprising. “Operational improvement” doesn’t sound quite as headline-grabbing as “human displacement”. Does it?

Social engineering in its many forms took center stage in Q3 2023. The quarter saw “human hacking” evolve from a long-standing security challenge to threat actors’ method of choice. This was evidenced by our observations of the dramatic escalation of social engineering tactics, with significant increases in phishing, smishing, valid accounts, voice phishing and other tactics—adding up to the highest volume of incidents we have seen in 2023.

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