Tag: category-/Computers & Electronics/Computer Security

16 Cybersecurity leaders predict how gen AI will improve cybersecurity in 2024

With greater AI power comes greater complexity, especially for CISOs adopting generative AI. Gen AI is the power surge cybersecurity vendors need to reduce the risks of losing the AI war. Meanwhile, adversaries’ tradecraft and new ways of weaponizing AI while combining social engineering have humbled many of the world’s leading companies this year.  VentureBeat […]

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Five bold cybersecurity predictions for 2024

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. It’s Christmas already? In less than a week, 2023 will be in the rear-view mirror. This means it’s not too early to look ahead at what 2024 could bring for […]

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All I really need to know about cybersecurity, I learned in kindergarten

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. I’m often asked which of the latest headline-making technologies should organizations be concerned about? Or what are the biggest threats or security gaps causing IT and security teams to lose […]

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Ransomware gangs increasingly crave the media spotlight

These aren’t messages from corporate websites — although you’ll find them there, too — they’re from extortion gangs.  VB Event The AI Impact Tour Connect with the enterprise AI community at VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour coming to a city near you! Learn More The hacker stereotype is one of a faceless, hoodie-wearing figure hunkered in […]

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IBM’s 2024 predictions show gen AI is the new DNA of cyberattacks

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. IBM predicts attackers will strengthen their arsenals with generative AI and take their attack tradecraft to a new, more lethal level in 2024. The new year signals the start of […]

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How to protect unmanaged devices in today’s zero-trust world

All it takes is a single hijacked browser session or unprotected third-party device on a network to shut a business down, costing millions in lost productivity and revenue. Regarding browser attacks, many CISOs can’t forget how the CNA Financial breach started with a phishing email telling an admin to perform a browser update. Attackers infiltrated […]

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The CISO risk calculus: Navigating the thin line between paranoia and vigilance

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. Born and raised in Israel, I remember the first time I ventured to an American shopping mall. The parking lot was full of cars and people were milling about, yet […]

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Protecting against new Kubernetes threats in 2024 and beyond

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. A wave of new attacks targeted Kubernetes in 2023: Dero and Monero crypto miners, Scarleteel and RBAC-Buster. Finding an initial foothold with a web app vulnerability, then moving laterally is […]

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Cisco goes all in on AI to strengthen its cybersecurity strategy

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. Configuration complexity and rules are among organizations’ most lethal, accidental risks when configuring networks and firewalls. Gartner predicts that misconfigurations will cause 99% of all firewall breaches this year. It’s […]

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How Arnica’s CEO foresees generative AI’s impact on DevOps security

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. VentureBeat recently sat down (virtually) with Nir Valtman, CEO and co-founder of Arnica. Valtman’s extensive cybersecurity experience includes leading product and data security across Finastra, establishing and hardening security practices […]

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Breaches happen: It’s time to stop playing the blame game and start learning together

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. What do you do after a vendor or partner suffers a breach? After your heart skips a beat (or two), this is a common question you might ask.   As a […]

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Fortanix launches Key Insight, a new tool for managing your enterprise’s encryption keys

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. Fortanix, the seven-year-old Santa Clara, California-based startup focused on enterprise key management and data security for companies that use software, is upgrading its Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) platform for […]

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AWS re:Invent 2023 defines a resilient vision for cloud security’s future

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. AWS‘s vision for achieving stronger, more resilient cloud security relies on implementing generative AI, human insight, and improved usability correctly with every product release — all from a posture of […]

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How to apply natural language processing to cybersecurity

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. Cybersecurity is imperative in the modern digital landscape. As businesses and individuals conduct more activities online, the scope of potential vulnerabilities expands. Here’s the exciting part — natural language processing […]

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2024: The Year Microsoft’s AI-Driven Zero Trust Vision Delivers

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. Microsoft’s vision for zero trust security is galvanized around generative AI and reflects how identity and network access must constantly improve to counter complex cyberattacks.  Their many security announcements at […]

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Lasso Security emerges from stealth to wrangle LLM security

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. For something so complex, large language models (LLMs) can be quite naïve when it comes to cybersecurity.  With a simple, crafty set of prompts, for instance, they can give up […]

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Building a safer internet: The growth of Aura led by Hari Ravichandran

The digital age has undeniably brought with it an explosion of opportunities and breathtaking innovations. Smart cities, AI-driven solutions, virtual realities — the horizon of possibilities seems limitless. However, there’s a flip side to every advancement. With accelerated digitalization, we’ve seen a growing dark underbelly where savvy cyber criminals rule. Hari Ravichandran of Aura is […]

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Microsoft goes all-in on Gen AI with security copilot and Defender XDR

AI has become the force multiplier attackers were waiting to fine-tune their tradecraft for greater accuracy and devastating results while avoiding detection. FraudGPT and other attempts by attackers to sell AI-based attack tools are just the beginning.   Microsoft’s decision to go all-in on generative AI to unify threat intelligence across all security apps, copilots, clouds, […]

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How generative AI is defining the future of identity access management

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Hear from top industry leaders on Nov 15. Reserve your free pass Generative AI defines the future of identity access management (IAM) by improving outlier behavior analysis, increasing the accuracy of alerts and streamlining administrative tasks while guarding against new threats. The […]

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Inside Visa’s AI-powered war against holiday fraud

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Hear from top industry leaders on Nov 15. Reserve your free pass The holiday shopping season is a double-edged sword for payments leader Visa. While transaction volumes surge, providing a sales boost, the period also kicks off a relentless assault from cybercriminals […]

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Forrester predicts A.I. code flaws will enable new attacks next year

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Hear from top industry leaders on Nov 15. Reserve your free pass DevOps teams rely more on AI-coding assistants to boost team productivity by automating coding tasks with only the most conscientious scanning final code for security flaws, Forrester warns in their […]

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PayPal’s CISO on how generative AI can improve cybersecurity

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More VentureBeat recently sat down (virtually) with Assaf Keren, CISO and VP of enterprise cyber security at PayPal. Keren’s career at PayPal spans eight years and includes a broad base of experience building security products, […]

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New method reveals how one LLM can be used to jailbreak another

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More A new algorithm developed by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania can automatically stop safety loopholes in large language models (LLM). Called Prompt Automatic Iterative Refinement (PAIR), the algorithm can identify “jailbreak” prompts that […]

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Endpoint security getting a boost from AI and machine learning

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Attackers are turning to generative AI to hunt for the easiest endpoints to breach, combining their attacks with social engineering to steal admin identities so they don’t have to hack into networks — they […]

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Cybersecurity industry responds to SEC charges against SolarWinds and former CISO

The cybersecurity industry is reeling after the shocking news that the SEC has charged SolarWinds and its former CISO with fraud around the notorious SUNBURST attack.  A 68-page-long complaint filed Oct. 30 alleges that from at least October 2018 through Jan. 12, 2021, SolarWinds and its then security head Timothy G. Brown defrauded investors and […]

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Surviving a ransomware attack begins by acknowledging it’s inevitable

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More The best defense against a ransomware attack is assuming it will happen before it does. With an 80% chance of re-attack, small and medium businesses in hard-hit industries including healthcare and manufacturing, are primary […]

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Okta’s breach shows why identities come first in a zero trust world

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Showing how fragile digital identities are even for a leading provider of identity and access management (IAM) solutions, Okta’s security breach, acknowledged by the company on October 20, began with stolen credentials used to […]

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IBM X-Force pits ChatGPT against humans: Who’s better at phishing?

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More As it continues to evolve at a near-unimaginable pace, AI is becoming capable of many extraordinary things — from generating stunning art and 3D worlds to serving as an efficient, reliable workplace partner.  But […]

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Securing generative AI starts with sustainable data centers

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Enterprises are increasingly experiencing attacks on their artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, with 41% having experienced an AI privacy breach, according to an August 2022 Gartner report. Twenty-five percent have experienced malicious, intentional attacks on […]

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How AI can help close IoT’s growing security gaps to contain ransomware

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Nation-state attackers are fine-tuning their tradecraft to take advantage of unprotected IoT sensors essential to infrastructure and manufacturing and increasing their attacks against U.S. and European targets. Once-sporadic attacks have given way to an […]

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Anonybit raises $3M to further build out biometric security platform Genie

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More The last time we wrote about Anonybit in 2022, the New York and Tel Aviv-based biometric security startup had just emerged from stealth with a with $3.5 million round, promising to offer enhanced security […]

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