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The past half-decade has been a particularly tumultuous one for cybersecurity. It has borne witness to some of the most damaging attacks in history, unprecedentedly high data breach rates, and a staggering number of emerging threat groups. However, a new report from cyber insurance provider Coalition suggests that things are beginning to stabilize.

According to a recent Yerbo survey, 40% of IT professionals are at high risk of burnout. In fact, and perhaps even more alarming, 42% of them plan to quit their company in the next six months. And yet, according to Deloitte, 70% of professionals across all industries feel their employers are not doing enough to prevent or alleviate burnout. CIOs should take this statistic seriously.

Within your incident response plan, there typically is (or should be) a trigger to notify your executive team of an impending crisis. While many organizations believe they’ve worked out the logistics of gathering leadership on the phone, getting decisions made, and garnering their support for your proposed response plan, they often find out in the heat of an incident that the leadership team is miles apart in your understanding of what happens next.

Fireblocks is proud to announce the latest enhancement to our Payments Engine – the Dynamic Payment Flow Builder. The new point-and-click interface enables businesses to configure custom payment flows to suit their use case, or leverage our pre-built cross-border, merchant settlement, and payout flows to orchestrate instant fiat and stablecoin settlements. Best of all, no coding is involved, so operations teams without engineering resources are empowered to utilize this feature easily.

On October 16, 2023, Cisco published a security advisory regarding an actively exploited and unpatched privilege escalation vulnerability in the Web UI feature of the Cisco IOS XE operating system, both physical and virtual. The vulnerability could allow a remote, unauthenticated threat actor to create an account with maximum privileges (privilege level 15 access) on the affected device. Due to these factors, Cisco has given this vulnerability the maximum possible CVSS score of 10.

On October 18, 2023, ServiceNow published a knowledge base article revealing that they are aware of reporting that details a potential misconfiguration issue. This issue lies in the Access Control Lists (ACL) within ServiceNow that if misconfigured could result in unauthenticated threat actors being able to access data. The issue was discovered by a security engineer at AppOmni, and was disclosed in a blog to the public on October 14, 2023.

In a world where technology is intertwined with everything we do, the digital domain is often so commonplace we don’t think about it unless something dreadful happens. Who hasn’t had a stomach-dropping phone call from the bank letting you know that thieves have stolen your credit card number? For better or worse, technology is part of our daily lives. From working remotely to shopping online to managing finances, we’re constantly connected.

We just released a new Snyk Partner Speak Video to showcase Snyk and Slack’s joint integration that enables you to view and use Snyk data on Slack channels. The new Snyk App for Slack provides notifications within the channels your teams rely on most to address security issues in your code, open source dependencies, containers, and cloud infrastructure.

If you are searching for ways to actualise benefits from cybersecurity AI tools or want to find out what AI tools will really make a difference in your SOC, you’re not alone. A World Economic Forum survey last year showed that almost half of all security leaders thought AI and machine learning would have the greatest influence on stopping cyber attacks and malware in the next two years. And that was before ChatGPT started an AI frenzy.

Network segmentation or segregation is a network architecture practice used by network security personnel to divide an organization’s computer network into smaller subnets. Each subnet or network segment forms its own smaller network. By segmenting an organization’s network, personnel can better control the traffic flow between subnets, improve security policies, and make it more challenging for unauthorized users to access sensitive data and critical parts of the network.