The dark side of AI energy consumption - and what to do about it

Artificial Intelligence’s ability to augment and support progress and development over the past few decades is inarguable. However, when does it become damaging, contradictory even? In our latest Beyond Data podcast AI’s Climate Jekyll & Hyde – friend and foe, Tessa Jones (our VP of Data Science, Research & Development) and Sophie Chase-Borthwick (our Data Ethics & Governance Lead) discuss exactly this with Joe Baguley, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, VMware.

The 443 Podcast Episode 211 - Optus Opts Out of PII Protection

This week on the podcast, we cover an Optus data breach that could affect over 10 million Australian customers, and what they should do to protect themselves. We highlight a new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) information stealer that lowers the cost and technical bar for cybercriminals. Finally, we end with some good news about how the FBI was able to catch and arrest an ex-NSA insider trying to sell sensitive national security data to a supposed Russian adversary.

ProxyNotShell-Microsoft Exchange Vulnerabilities

On September 29, Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence reported two significant zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild. The two vulnerabilities, named “ProxyNotShell”, affect Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, and Exchange Server 2019.

Vulnerability Assessment vs Risk Assessment

As a CIO in charge of your organization's security, you're responsible for ensuring the security of your company's data. But with so many cybersecurity threats out there, it can be difficult to know where to start. Should you focus on conducting a vulnerability assessment? Or is a risk assessment more important? In this article, we will discuss vulnerability vs risk, cyber threats, and protecting sensitive data.

Secure Cloud-native Development: The Top Five Security Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

The reason organizations are embracing cloud-native development is clear: AWS reports those who migrated saw an average of 20% infrastructure cost savings and 66% increase in administrator productivity. Moving your development process to the cloud offers these benefits and many others, but it also offers a whole new set of security challenges. This series is aimed at helping developers create secure infrastructure for modern, cloud-native applications.

5 Ways to Prevent Secrets Sprawl

The number of secrets exposed in public repositories is staggering. With reports in 2021 reaching up to 6 million secrets detected, an increase of 50% from 2020. Secret sprawl is part of every organization, but it is a plague on the open-source world of software development. Even if your organization has a top-notch security-aware culture, human error will inevitably cause secrets to leak and data to be lost or compromised.

Establish an Efficient DLP Policy With These 5 Best Practices

Strong data loss prevention requires two things: a strong policy that guides user actions and permissions, and the tools to monitor and manage data security. Many organizations know they need to invest in software, platforms, and other security settings to create secure networks, endpoints, and cloud settings. But not every organization has a strong DLP policy to guide these tools. Many compliance regimes require companies to record data loss prevention policies.

See Yourself in Cyber - Welcome to Cyber Security Awareness Month

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which is a good time for everyone to re-evaluate their security procedures and technologies, and the role that they want in their personal and corporate cybersecurity practices. This year’s theme is “See Yourself in Cyber.” At WatchGuard, we take that to mean that all of us, regardless of our role or responsibility, can make a positive contribution to a safer and more secure online world.