cybersecurity

ANZ CIO Challenges: AI, Cybersecurity & Data Analytics for 2025

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ANZ CIO Challenges: AI, Cybersecurity & Data Analytics for 2025

CIOs across Australia and New Zealand’s public sector face a “hard 12 months” managing their technology estates amid cost constraints, according to a leading regional Gartner analyst. However, there is optimism that investments in AI will deliver the productivity gains many anticipate. Gartner recently released the public sector findings from its CIO Technology Executive Survey. The firm found that 94% of ANZ government CIOs named data analytics as their top technology investment for 2025, followed…

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1.1 Million UK NHS Employee Records Exposed

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1.1 Million UK NHS Employee Records Exposed

Over a million NHS employee records — including email addresses, phone numbers, and home addresses — were exposed online due to a misconfiguration of the low-code website builder Microsoft Power Pages. In September, researchers with the software-as-a-service security platform AppOmni identified a large shared business service provider for the NHS that was allowing unauthorised access to sensitive data through insecure permission settings on Power Pages. Specifically, the permissions on some tables and columns in Power…

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AI-Assisted Attacks Top Cyber Threat For Third Consecutive Quarter, Gartner Finds

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AI-Assisted Attacks Top Cyber Threat For Third Consecutive Quarter, Gartner Finds

For the third consecutive quarter, Gartner has found that cyber attacks staged using artificial intelligence are the biggest risk for enterprises. The consulting firm surveyed 286 senior risk and assurance executives from July through September, and 80% cited AI-enhanced malicious attacks as the top threat they were concerned about. This isn’t surprising, as evidence suggests AI-assisted attacks are on the rise. Other commonly cited emerging risks outlined in the report include AI-assisted misinformation, escalating political…

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Network Hacking Course Pairs with Cisco Modeling Labs

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Network Hacking Course Pairs with Cisco Modeling Labs

If you’ve ever been to Cisco Live and seen the booth with a display for you to pick locks, then you know about the Cisco Advanced Security Initiatives Group (ASIG). We are chartered with security testing and ethical hacking for all Cisco products and services, whether in the cloud or on-premises. Anything Cisco sells, we have a go at it and try to break it—finding vulnerabilities as early as possible—before it’s deployed on the internet…

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Products Of The Year 2024: The Finalists

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Products Of The Year 2024: The Finalists

CRN staff compiled the top partner-friendly products that launched or were significantly updated over the last year. Now it’s up to solution providers to choose the winners. Application Performance and Observability As more applications run in hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments, maintaining application performance has becoming a more complex task. Application performance management and observability tools help IT organizations maintain the health, performance and user experience of business applications, according to market researcher Gartner. Such tools…

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Best AI Security Tools: Top Solutions, Features & Comparisons

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Best AI Security Tools: Top Solutions, Features & Comparisons

Generative AI features in enterprise software can be double-edged swords. AI introduces complexities and its own security issues. At the same time, it can speed up processes and enable new capabilities. The tools we’ve chosen here were often highly rated platforms before generative AI entered the scene, and we’ve rated them in part on longevity and positive reviews over time. Where AI features are major selling points for the products, we’ve examined them based on…

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Threat Actors Are Exploiting Vulnerabilities Faster Than Ever

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Threat Actors Are Exploiting Vulnerabilities Faster Than Ever

New research by cybersecurity firm Mandiant provides eyebrow-raising statistics on the exploitation of vulnerabilities by attackers, based on an analysis of 138 different exploited vulnerabilities that were disclosed in 2023. The findings, published on Google Cloud’s blog, reveals that vendors are increasingly being targeted by attackers, who are continually reducing the average time to exploit both zero-day and N-day vulnerabilities. However, not all vulnerabilities are of equal value to attackers, as their significance depends on…

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ISC2 Security Congress: The Rise in Nation-State Cyber Threats

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ISC2 Security Congress: The Rise in Nation-State Cyber Threats

Today’s threat landscape includes nation-state actors as well as attackers looking to test their skills or turn a profit. AT ISC2 Security Conference in Las Vegas, CISA advisor and former New York Times cybersecurity journalist Nicole Perlroth took the stage to discuss what has changed over the last 10 years of cyber warfare. Her presentation was the capstone of the conference, held Oct. 13-16. Nation-state attackers look for ‘target-rich, cyber-poor’ victims Perlroth presented a timeline…

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Number of Active Ransomware Groups Highest on Record

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Number of Active Ransomware Groups Highest on Record

This year has seen the highest number of active ransomware groups on record, with 58 attacking global businesses in the second quarter. Threat intelligence platform provider Cyberint has reported only a slight dip in the third quarter, with 57 active groups. Furthermore, in Q3, the top 10 ransomware groups were responsible for only 58.3% of all detected attacks. This reflects both the increase in the number of active groups in general and a decline in…

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K-12 Schools and Libraries: Key Insights on FCC’s $200M Cybersecurity Pilot and Cisco Simplified Solutions

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K-12 Schools and Libraries: Key Insights on FCC’s 0M Cybersecurity Pilot and Cisco Simplified Solutions

The Cybersecurity pilot program has officially launched. Learn how Cisco has streamlined solutions designed to enhance network security. On September 17, 2024, the FCC launched its cybersecurity pilot program. Interested parties can now submit an FCC Form 484 “part one” to apply for participation through the USAC’s EPC portal. The deadline for applications is November 1, 2024. K-12 schools and public libraries that wish to apply to the pilot program can do so by submitting…

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