He sees CEOs also asking CIOs to educate and train employees on AI, and prepare them for the changes AI and other technologies will bring. Addressing diversity and equity within the IT ranks is another chief executive directive Shim sees on the rise for CIOs today, as is advancing the organization’s sustainability efforts by enabling applications that track and support ESG data and by devising green IT strategies. Shim also notes CIOs’ need to strengthen…

IBM is betting big on its toolkit for monitoring generative AI and machine learning models, dubbed watsonx.governance, to take on rivals and position the offering as a top AI governance product, according to a senior executive at IBM. The toolkit, released as part of IBM’s watsonx generative AI platform last May, is uniquely differentiated by its audit trail capability, said Heather Gentile, director of product management at IBM’s data and AI software division. The capability,…

It’s the fifth requirement in CIS Control 1: Use a passive asset discovery tool. Sounds simple enough. But what does it mean? And what, specifically, makes it so important that it became one of the first five requirements of the widely applied CIS Controls used by so many organizations to establish their most basic levels of cyber hygiene? The usefulness of passive asset discovery and the importance of finding the right passive asset discovery tool…

The Black Basta ransomware group and its affiliates compromised hundreds of organizations worldwide between April 2022 and May 2024, according to a new report from several US government agencies. The Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) was issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). It claimed that Black Basta attacks have impacted more than 500 organizations in North America,…

El resultado final es una herramienta robusta y escalable, con un alto grado de generalización y un amplio espectro de detección de cambios, que supone un gran avance técnico. Detecta cambios de aparición, desaparición o modificación para una amplia variedad de objetos geográficos. Asimismo, ignora cambios no relevantes, como los producidos por luces y sombras, vehículos, inclinación de fachadas, cambios en la vegetación, en el agua o en la aparición y desaparición del ganado. Con…

A well-known threat actor is selling what they claim to be a legitimate trove of highly sensitive internal data stolen from Europol this month. “IntelBroker” took to hacking site BreachForums on Friday to advertise their wares. “In May 2024 Europol suffered a data breach and lead [sic] to the exposure of FOUO [for official use only] and classified data,” they wrote in a post to the site screenshotted on X (formerly Twitter). “Compromised data: Alliance…

Cybercriminals are notoriously tricky to pin down. They are experts in obfuscation and misdirection, masters of avoiding consequences. Not since the early days of the Wild West have criminals managed to evade capture and maintain anonymity as effectively as modern cybercriminals do.   Part of the reason for these staggeringly low conviction rates is that we usually have little idea of what country an attacker is in. We can make educated guesses: if a cybercrime group, for…

En un escenario en el que la reserva hídrica española se encuentra críticamente baja, con tan solo un 54,7% de su capacidad total a inicios de marzo, el proyecto AgrarIA emerge como un rayo de esperanza para el sector agroalimentario. La iniciativa, financiada a través del programa Misiones de I+D en Inteligencia Artificial (IA) impulsado por la Secretaría de Estado de Digitalización e IA (SEDIA), tiene como objetivo la aplicación de tecnologías avanzadas para desarrollar…