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Microsoft Ignite 2024: AI, Security, and Teams Innovations

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Microsoft Ignite 2024: AI, Security, and Teams Innovations

Microsoft Ignite 2024, held Nov. 19 – 22 in Chicago, featured nearly 100 announcements and software updates, including an AI feature in Teams that can translate speech and replicate an individual employee’s voice. This year’s overarching theme was expanding generative AI’s summarization and rewriting capabilities to address more niche use cases. AI translator agent can replicate your voice in Teams Microsoft is going all-in on AI “agents” in an effort to further abstract the workings…

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Trust Through Transparency: Regulation’s Role in Consumer Confidence

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Trust Through Transparency: Regulation’s Role in Consumer Confidence

The flow of personal information has become a cornerstone of modern business operations. From online shopping to social media, data collection is ubiquitous, and consumers are taking notice and taking action.   For the past six years, Cisco has been studying consumer sentiment across the privacy landscape and the evolution of privacy from a compliance matter to a consumer requirement. For consumers, knowing their personal information is being handled responsibly is crucial to earning and building…

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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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Can Security Experts Leverage Generative AI Without Prompt Engineering Skills?

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Can Security Experts Leverage Generative AI Without Prompt Engineering Skills?

Professionals across industries are exploring generative AI for various tasks — including creating information security training materials — but will it truly be effective? Brian Callahan, senior lecturer and graduate program director in information technology and web sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Shoshana Sugerman, an undergraduate student in this same program, presented the results of their experiment on this topic at ISC2 Security Congress in Las Vegas in October. Experiment involved creating cyber training…

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Generative AI in Security: Risks and Mitigation Strategies

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Generative AI in Security: Risks and Mitigation Strategies

Generative AI became tech’s fiercest buzzword seemingly overnight with the release of ChatGPT. Two years later, Microsoft is using OpenAI foundation models and fielding questions from customers about how AI changes the security landscape. Siva Sundaramoorthy, senior cloud solutions security architect at Microsoft, often answers these questions. The security expert provided an overview of generative AI — including its benefits and security risks — to a crowd of cybersecurity professionals at ISC2 in Las Vegas…

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Deepfakes Can Fool Facial Recognition on Crypto Exchanges

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Deepfakes Can Fool Facial Recognition on Crypto Exchanges

Generative AI deepfakes can stoke misinformation or manipulate images of real people for unsavory purposes. They can also help threat actors pass two-factor authentication, according to an Oct. 9 research report from Cato Networks’ CTRL Threat Research. AI generates videos of fake people looking into a camera The threat actor profiled by CTRL Threat Research — known by the handle ProKYC — uses deepfakes to forge government IDs and spoof facial recognition systems. The attacker…

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HackerOne: 48% of Security Professionals Believe AI Is Risky

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HackerOne: 48% of Security Professionals Believe AI Is Risky

A recent survey of 500 security professionals by HackerOne, a security research platform, found that 48% believe AI poses the most significant security risk to their organization. Among their greatest concerns related to AI include: Leaked training data (35%). Unauthorized usage (33%). The hacking of AI models by outsiders (32%). These fears highlight the urgent need for companies to reassess their AI security strategies before vulnerabilities become real threats. Must-read security coverage AI tends to…

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Australian IT Spending to Surge in 2025: Cybersecurity & AI Focus

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Australian IT Spending to Surge in 2025: Cybersecurity & AI Focus

New Gartner forecasting suggests that IT spending in Australia will surge 8.7% to AU$147 billion in 2025. This boost in spending is projected to be driven by a “perfect storm” of interest in AI, ongoing requirements around cyber security, and the need to refresh hardware as Windows 10 goes out of service, Gartner representatives say. Strategic investments in cyber security and AI In an interview with TechRepublic, Andy Rowsell-Jones, Gartner distinguished VP analyst, said that…

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Common Business-Related Phishing Scams Include Fake HR and IT Subject Lines

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Common Business-Related Phishing Scams Include Fake HR and IT Subject Lines

Think you’ve received an important document from HR? Be careful. KnowBe4’s quarterly phishing test report found that threat actors in Q2 often found success with emails spoofing HR departments. After an ill-fated click occurred, links in the body of emails and PDF documents were common vectors for attacks. TechRepublic spoke with KnowBe4 Security Awareness Advocate Erich Kron about the results of the phishing tests and how to keep businesses safe from ever-evolving, generative AI-powered phishing…

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Australian Enterprises Coming 4th in 2024 Global Survey of Generative AI Usage

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Australian Enterprises Coming 4th in 2024 Global Survey of Generative AI Usage

Australian organisations have ranked fourth in an assessment of how widely enterprises in 16 countries are using and implementing generative AI. The survey, conducted by data analytics firm SAS, found that 63% of Australian businesses are now using generative AI. The findings, based on responses from 1,600 global AI and data analytics decision makers, found that Australian generative AI usage is ahead of the global average and that Australia is leading the pack when it…

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