Gartner Hype Cycle for 2023 assesses the levels of maturity, adoption, and societal effects associated with emerging technologies in the field of Application Security. The 2023 report serves as a valuable resource for organizations seeking insights into the influence of security technologies on their applications. It also highlights the market leaders in the respective fields - Appknox being this year's leading vendor in mobile application security testing.

ChatGPT continues to lead the news cycle and increase in popularity, with new applications and uses seemingly uncovered each day for this innovative platform. However, as interesting as this solution is, and as many efficiencies as it is already providing to modern businesses, it’s not without its risks.

Allegheny County is the second largest county in Pennsylvania, behind Philadelphia County. It is located in Southwest Pennsylvania and has approximately 1.2 million residents. This large county was the recent victim of a data breach, which means many of the county residents could be at risk of being exposed. Learn the details about this potentially disastrous data loss and who should react to the attack to protect themselves from future issues.

Researchers at SafeBreach Labs have recently discovered several novel attack methods which can circumvent common security controls and execute some jaw-dropping malicious actions including: SafeBreach threat researchers have successfully executed and verified each of these attack methods, however none have been used in the wild at this point.

CurrentWare version 9.0 is here! This update introduces Advanced HTTPS transparent packet filtering technology, allowing for significant enhancements to the tracking and restriction capabilities of the CurrentWare Suite. By upgrading to CurrentWare v9.0 you will have greater protection against the data security risks of cloud storage services, potentially malicious file downloads, network share drives, and more!

CrowdStrike is proud to announce the launch of CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations, a newly formed, first-of-its kind team that brings together CrowdStrike Falcon® Intelligence and the CrowdStrike® Falcon OverWatch™ threat hunting team to disrupt today’s adversaries and ultimately raise their cost of doing business.

ThreatQuotient and Infoblox recently hosted a webinar, where they demonstrated how the combination of DNS Intel and the use of a Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) help to improve threat detection and response capabilities. Infoblox specializes in DNS Intelligence where their internal experts analyze, process and qualify DNS intelligence (analyzing around 70 billion DNS requests). The results of these analyses provide customers with an enriched, qualified and reliable source of information.

Netskope Threat Labs publishes a monthly summary blog post of the top threats we are tracking on the Netskope platform. The purpose of this post is to provide strategic, actionable intelligence on active threats against enterprise users worldwide.

So, you want to be a cybersecurity analyst. You’ll be pleased to know it’s a profession with a strong job outlook, thanks to the increasing importance of cybersecurity. With the rise in high-profile data breaches, privacy concerns and rapid technological advancements, there is a greater demand for cybersecurity analysts now than ever.

Spring Security’s newly released versions contain a fix for a broken access control vulnerability – CVE-2023-34034 – which was given a critical NVD severity (CVSS 9.8) and a high severity by Spring’s maintainers.