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The Hidden Dangers of Zombie and Shadow APIs-and Why Only Salt Security Can Tackle Them

In today’s hyper-connected digital landscape, APIs are the lifeblood of innovation, powering everything from customer experiences to internal operations. However, with this growing reliance on APIs comes a dark side—zombie and shadow APIs. These hidden, forgotten, or undocumented endpoints present significant security risks that traditional approaches simply can’t address.

Deceptive AI: A New Wave of Cyber Threats

As artificial intelligence (AI) technology advances, its influence on social media has become more and more pervasive and riddled with challenges. In particular, the ability for humans to discern genuine content from AI-generated material. Our recent survey conducted with OnePoll on over 2,000 UK workers found that a substantial portion of social media users are struggling to navigate this new digital frontier.

Advanced Android Malware Targets NFC Data for ATM Cashouts

A new strain of Android malware has emerged, targeting victims' card details and utilizing near-field communication (NFC) technology to facilitate unauthorized ATM withdrawals. This sophisticated crimeware, active since March 2024, has already impacted customers of three major Czech banks.

Cloud Security And Privacy: Best Practices To Mitigate The Risks

Cloud security refers to technologies, best practices, and safety guidelines that help to protect your data from human errors, insider and security threats. Therefore, it naturally covers a wide range of procedures, which are aimed at securing systems from data breaches, data loss, unauthorized access, and other cybersecurity-related risks that are growing from year to year.

Response Accuracy Retention Index (RARI) - Evaluating Impact of Data Masking on LLM Response

As language models (LLMs) in enterprise applications continue to grow, ensuring data privacy while maintaining response accuracy becomes crucial. One of the primary methods for protecting sensitive information is data masking. However, this process can lead to significant information loss, potentially rendering responses from LLMs less accurate. How can this loss be measured?

Secure, Compliant, Privacy Preserving Analytics/RAG for Data Lakes

Discover how our intelligent data masking solution ensures secure, compliant, and privacy-preserving analytics for your data lakes. Protecto maintains data integrity while empowering your organization to leverage analytics or enable AI/RAG without compromising privacy or regulatory compliance.

Elastic AI Assistant and Attack Discovery integrate with Google Vertex AI to help drive further AI adoption

AI-driven security analytics reduces analyst burnout Most SIEM technologies in today’s market have not kept up with the pace of innovation and place a heavy burden on security analysts to perform manual, labor-intensive tasks in order to maintain defenses. Generative AI is helping security professionals address today’s dynamic threat landscape and prepare for future threats.

Common Trends in the MSP Industry

The managed service provider (MSP) landscape is experiencing rapid evolution as businesses increasingly rely on external IT support. To gain valuable insights into the industry’s current state, we interviewed Bill Hammelman of CCP Tech and Bill Hughes of Weehooey as part of the JumpCloud Partner Success Interview series. This blog post delves into common trends and challenges faced by MSPs based on their expertise.

How Are SMEs Approaching IT Security?

Security remains a thorny issue for small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), consistently topping the list of challenges for IT professionals in JumpCloud’s biannual SME IT Trends survey. In our latest edition, IT pros shared their real-world experiences and strategies around security, among other pressing topics. This blog will dive into those insights to reveal how SMEs are tackling the security landscape today.