Managing Risk Appetite: Balancing Cybersecurity and Business Growth

Determining, dealing with, and accepting a certain level of risk will always be a top priority for the members of any C-Suite. Eliminating risk is likely not a possibility, especially when it concerns cybersecurity. Simply put, the threat landscape changes so rapidly that fully solving this problem is likely beyond our reach. That means organisations must focus on what they can control and how much they are willing to leave up to chance.

Testing with OpenAPI Specifications

The 2023 SANS Survey on API Security (Jun-2023) found that less than 50 percent of respondents have API security testing tools in place. Even fewer (29 percent) have API discovery tools. Wallarm delivers both these capabilities via our single, integrated App and API Security platform. Wallarm has long offered the ability to generate OpenAPI Specifications (aka Swagger) based on actual traffic across your endpoints.

IT Admins Continue to Use Weak Passwords

In an analysis of web pages identified as admin portals, some incredibly weak passwords were identified – and some of them are going to really surprise you. We all know the general drill with admin passwords – make them complex and long. Simple right? But a new analysis of admin passwords shows that IT admins seem to not be vigilant around good password hygiene.

Friday Flows Episode 12: From Code to Clicks

On this Friday Flows Jesse Strivelli shares a side-by-side comparison of an automation written in Python & built in Tines. The workflow is around triaging alerts for an eCommerce business. The goal is to ingest the alert, enrich & get further analysis, and take action if there's a high-risk score. Jesse has been a software developer at Fortune 100 organizations for most of his career. And while coding remains near & dear to his heart, he shares how building in Tines now saves him time & headaches.

Highlights from The Rochester Security Summit 2023

October’s a fun month in the cybersecurity field, and not just because of the costumes and candy. Since it was designated as the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in 2004, October’s always packed with great events, such as the Rochester Security Summit (RSS). RSS has been a leading regional cybersecurity conference in Upstate New York since 2006, where hundreds of attendees gather to share about the latest advancements in the field.

The 443 Podcast - Episode 267 - The White House Tackles AI

This week on the podcast we cover an Executive Order from the US White House on the topic of Artificial Intelligence. After that, we discuss the latest CISO that has found themselves in hot water with the law. We then cover an update to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System and end with a researcher claiming the end of encryption as we know it. The 443 Security Simplified is a weekly podcast that gets inside the minds of leading white-hat hackers and security researchers, covering the latest cybersecurity headlines and trends.

How Tracking Pixels Impact Cybersecurity

Data collection is the gear that powers the modern internet. User data provides powerful behavioral insights, supercharges web analytics for tailored advertisements, and engages organizations in meaningful user experience research. But collecting that data requires tracking user behavior, which can lead to potential for personal data leaks, advertising spam, and unclear boundaries around what is considered invasive user research.

Trustwave Measures the Pros and Cons of President Biden's Executive Order to Regulate AI Development

President Joe Biden, on October 30, signed the first-ever Executive Order designed to regulate and formulate the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence within the United States. Overall, Trustwave’s leadership commended the Executive Order, but raised several questions concerning the government’s ability to enforce the ruling and the impact it may have on AI’s development in the coming years.

Untangle JavaScript Dependency Secrets #javascript #security #cybersecurity

In an ecosystem with an increasing number of dependencies, maintainers and supply chain attacks, discover an open source tool designed to analyze in depth the dependencies of a given remote package or local manifest. Not knowing what’s in the node_modules directory is a bad dream from the past. Dive in with me to find out the secrets that your dependencies hide from you. Snyk helps software-driven businesses develop fast and stay secure. Continuously find and fix vulnerabilities for npm, Maven, NuGet, RubyGems, PyPI and more.