After a tumultuous year marked by internal turmoil and a mounting vulnerability backlog, the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) team within the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finally stabilized. However, the NVD is now facing a new challenge: a surge in vulnerability reporting that has sent its backlog soaring, threatening to outpace the team’s revitalized efforts. Tanya Brewer, the NVD Program Manager, and Matthew Scholl, Chief of the Computer Security Division at…

Smart meters are essential to smart grids, empowering utilities and smart grid managers to provide consumers and energy providers with real-time energy consumption data, transparent billing, and demand side management. Nevertheless, despite the many benefits of smart meters, they, including the larger smart grid, are critical infrastructure, making them ideal targets for hackers. Cyberattacks are growing worldwide, with attacks against critical infrastructure being some of the most prevalent. Research from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that…

AI in software development is no longer a glimpse into the future – it’s here, woven into daily workflows and it’s accelerating at a breakneck pace. According to PwC’s AI Predictions report, AI has the potential to cut software development time in half, making it no surprise that companies are eager to integrate AI into their development workflows. In fact, a 2024 GitHub and Accenture study revealed that 40% of newly committed code across enterprise customers now contains…

Finalmente, Óscar Monrio, de CHC Energía, tiene la mira en múltiples tendencias. Dentro del campo de la IA generativa, explica, no hay que perder de vista el auge del llamado ‘shadow AI’. “Se prevé que el uso no autorizado de herramientas de IA generativa por parte de empleados pueda convertirse en un riesgo de seguridad creciente para las organizaciones”, apunta. Otras tendencias que atisba este experto en este sentido son el uso de asistentes de…

Cybersecurity teams must adapt their approaches in the wake of a dramatically changing threat landscape, according to expert speakers at the Google Cloud Next 2025 event. This changing threat landscape has been driven by four primary factors: An increasing volume of cybercriminal actors Growing geopolitical tensions resulting in more malicious nation state activity New cybersecurity and data protection regulations Rapid developments in new technologies, such as AI Matt Rowe, Chief Security Officer at Lloyds Banking…