In this article When it comes to demonstrating security and compliance maturity, many organizations find themselves asking the same question: Should we pursue SOC 2 or ISO 27001? Both frameworks are highly respected in the world of information security and risk management. However, they differ in purpose, scope, geographic recognition, and implementation requirements.

Think of how painful it would be to spend a few weeks creating a mobile app to watch users abandon it because of a faulty update or chronic feature rollout. Your coders are fed up. Your QA team is flooded. And with every release, it is a tightrope walk with the blindfold on. That is the sad state of mobile app development without CI/CD. But here is what you can imagine: whenever your team pushes code, a test, a build, and a deploy happen automatically. No eleventh-hour rush. No delays.

What if we told you that our newly released API Scanner has 922 quintillion payloads for a single type of vulnerability test? A quintillion is a billion billion – an immense number that highlights the limitations of traditional API security testing. Old methods like relying on signatures, vulnerability-specific payloads, or a fixed set of fuzzing inputs just aren’t enough anymore, especially when dealing with custom-built software and unique API endpoints.

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! Plaintext? Really?

Across financial services operations, machine identities play critical roles, but in many organizations, these cryptographic keys, API tokens, certificates, and service accounts remain chronically under-governed. What’s more, machine identities outnumber human identities by staggering margins, creating a massive, often unseen, unsecured attack surface—one that’s only further compounded by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI).

AI-assisted phishing attacks pose a significant and increasing threat to organizations, according to Matt Weidman, partner and vice president of Commercial Property & Casualty at USIA. In an article for CBIA, Weidman explains that attackers can use AI tools to craft targeted, convincing phishing messages that are almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

CrowdStrike continues to raise the bar for modern identity protection. We are excited to announce innovations including phishing-resistant multifactor authentication (MFA), new privileged access capabilities, and identity-driven case management, all part of CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security.

Delivering safe and reliable power around the clock is a huge challenge. A task made even more difficult by the sharp rise in cyberattacks on the energy and utilities sector. Recent research from Trustwave SpiderLabs found that cyber threats against the sector have surged by 80% year-over-year, costing organizations nearly half a million dollars more per breach than the cross-industry average of $4.8 million.