Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Assigning users to the right devices, applications, networks, VPNs, and files is a critical part of every company’s IT workflow. Get it wrong, and you’ve instantly tarnished a new hire’s experience — or worse, opened the door to security and compliance violations. With so much riding on this one component of IT or MSP work, organizations of any size need to be judicious about the identity and access management (IAM) tools they select.

The rise of ChatGPT and Generative AI has swept the world by storm. It has left no stone unturned and has strong implications for cybersecurity and SecOps. The big reason for this is that cybercriminals now use GenAI to increase the potency and frequency of their attacks on organizations. To cope with this, security teams naturally need to adapt and are looking for ways to leverage AI to counter these attacks in a similar fashion.

Legacy data leak prevention (DLP) solutions are failing. Simply put, they weren’t built for business environments rooted in SaaS apps and generative AI (GenAI) tools. Meanwhile, security threats are evolving at a breakneck pace, with as many as 95% of enterprises experiencing multiple breaches a year. New attack surfaces are unfurling at a rapid rate following the switch to hybrid and cloud-based workspaces.

The next 12 months have the potential to reshape the global political landscape with elections occurring in more than 80 nations, in 2024, while new technologies, such as AI, capture our imagination and pose new security challenges. Against this backdrop, the role of CISOs has never been more important. Grant Bourzikas, Cloudflare’s Chief Security Officer, shared his views on what the biggest challenges currently facing the security industry are in the Security Week opening blog.