Dear reader, This week has been a strange one. Over the past few months, we’ve seen a string of significant supply chain attacks. The community has been sounding the alarm for a while, and the truth is we’ve been skating on thin ice. It feels inevitable that something bigger, something worse, is coming. In this post, I want to share some of the key takeaways from this week.

Picture this: It’s a busy weekday afternoon and your online payment platform is humming with activity. Suddenly, everything slows down. Customers complain that transactions are failing, your website goes offline, and your team scrambles to figure out what’s happening. The culprit? A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

Generative AI is transforming the way enterprises approach daily operations – powering virtual assistants, summarizing medical records, and aiding clinicians with insights. These benefits come at a cost: risk to a wide range of sensitive data in AI-driven workflows. Traditional access controls and content filters that work for static systems fail as these are not designed for the free-flowing, context-rich data exchanges in LLM applications.

For Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Web Application and API Protection(WAAP) services have become table stakes. Enterprises expect MSSPs to deliver continuous security-policy management, rapid patching, zero false positives, real-time responses to zero-days, and audit-ready compliance reporting. The challenge? Delivering all of this as a part of MSSP managed WAF service can quickly become a margin drain.

While social media can be a great place to connect with people, friends, and families, it still has its dangers. Social media websites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc, are an attractive platform for scammers to target people to steal their personal and financial information. As a result, this article will inform you of the most common social media scams, statistics, and offer advice and tools to avoid them and stay safe online.