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Tech Needed to Survive This Decade's 'Seismic' APAC B2B Trends

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Tech Needed to Survive This Decade's 'Seismic' APAC B2B Trends

The business-to-business market will see a number of big changes in the years to 2030, according to a new report from customer experience firm Merkle. APAC regional B2B enterprises will need to consider their levels of investment in a number of technologies and integrating new tools now to prepare for and adapt to the coming changes. The B2B Futures: The View From 2030 report argues four key “seismic” trends are coming to B2B: A rise…

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Google Cloud/Cloud Security Alliance Report: IT and Security Pros Are ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About AI

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Google Cloud/Cloud Security Alliance Report: IT and Security Pros Are ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About AI

The C-suite is more familiar with AI technologies than their IT and security staff, according to a report from the Cloud Security Alliance commissioned by Google Cloud. The report, published on April 3, addressed whether IT and security professionals fear AI will replace their jobs, the benefits and challenges of the increase in generative AI and more. Of the IT and security professionals surveyed, 63% believe AI will improve security within their organization. Another 24%…

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NVIDIA GTC Keynote: Blackwell Architecture Will Accelerate AI Products in Late 2024

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NVIDIA GTC Keynote: Blackwell Architecture Will Accelerate AI Products in Late 2024

NVIDIA’s newest GPU platform is the Blackwell (Figure A), which companies including AWS, Microsoft and Google plan to adopt for generative AI and other modern computing tasks, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced during the keynote at the NVIDIA GTC conference on March 18 in San Jose, California. Figure A The NVIDIA Blackwell architecture. Image: NVIDIA Blackwell-based products will enter the market from NVIDIA partners worldwide in late 2024. Huang announced a long lineup of additional…

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Microsoft’s Security Copilot Enters General Availability

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Microsoft’s Security Copilot Enters General Availability

Microsoft Security Copilot, also referred to as Copilot for Security, will be in general availability starting April 1, the company announced today. Microsoft revealed that pricing for Security Copilot will start at $4/hr, calculated based on usage. At a press briefing on March 7 at the Microsoft Experience Center in New York (Figure A), we saw how Microsoft positions Security Copilot as a way for security personnel to get real-time assistance with their work and…

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ISC2 Research: Most Cybersecurity Professionals Expect AI to Impact Their Jobs

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ISC2 Research: Most Cybersecurity Professionals Expect AI to Impact Their Jobs

Most cybersecurity professionals (88%) believe AI will significantly impact their jobs, according to a new survey by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium; with only 35% of the respondents having already witnessed AI’s effects on their jobs (Figure A). The impact is not necessarily a positive or negative impact, but rather an indicator that cybersecurity pros expect their jobs to change. In addition, concerns have arisen about deepfakes, misinformation and social engineering attacks. The…

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NIST Establishes AI Safety Consortium

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NIST Establishes AI Safety Consortium

Image: Adobe/Grandbrothers The National Institute of Standards and Technology established the AI Safety Institute on Feb. 7 to determine guidelines and standards for AI measurement and policy. U.S. AI companies and companies that do business in the U.S. will be affected by those guidelines and standards and may have the opportunity to have input about them. What is the U.S. AI Safety Institute consortium? The U.S. AI Safety Institute is a joint public and private…

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UK Study: Generative AI May Increase Ransomware Threat

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UK Study: Generative AI May Increase Ransomware Threat

The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre has released a new study that finds generative AI may increase risks from cyber threats such as ransomware. Overall, the report found that generative AI will provide “capability uplift” to existing threats as opposed to being a source of brand new threats. Threat actors will need to be sophisticated enough to gain access to “quality training data, significant expertise (in both AI and cyber), and resources” before they can…

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Attackers Could Eavesdrop on AI Conversations on GPUs

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Attackers Could Eavesdrop on AI Conversations on GPUs

Researchers at cybersecurity research and consulting firm Trail of Bits have discovered a vulnerability that could allow attackers to read GPU local memory from affected Apple, Qualcomm, AMD and Imagination GPUs. In particular, the vulnerability—which the researchers named LeftoverLocals—can access conversations performed with large language models and machine learning models on affected GPUs. Which GPUs are affected by the LeftoverLocals vulnerability, and what has been patched? Apple, Qualcomm, AMD and Imagination GPUs are affected. All…

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Intel Spins Off Enterprise Generative AI Deployment Firm Articul8

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Intel Spins Off Enterprise Generative AI Deployment Firm Articul8

Intel and the global investment firm DigitalBridge Group have formed an independent generative AI software stack company, Articul8 AI, Inc. (Articul8); Intel announced the new company on Jan. 3. Articul8 will work with Intel and provide solutions for organizations that wish to build and deploy generative AI. Articul8’s product and capabilities Articul8’s product is “a turnkey GenAI software platform that delivers speed, security and cost-efficiency to help large enterprise customers operationalize and scale AI,” according…

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ESET Threat Report: ChatGPT Name Abuses, Lumma Stealer Malware Increases, Android SpinOk SDK Spyware's Prevalence

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ESET Threat Report: ChatGPT Name Abuses, Lumma Stealer Malware Increases, Android SpinOk SDK Spyware's Prevalence

Risk mitigation tips are provided for each of these cybersecurity threats. Cybersecurity company ESET released its H2 2023 threat report, and we’re highlighting three particularly interesting topics in it: the abuse of the ChatGPT name by cybercriminals, the rise of the Lumma Stealer malware and the Android SpinOk SDK spyware. Jump to: ChatGPT name is being abused by cybercriminals In the second half of 2023, ESET has blocked 650,000 attempts to access malicious domains whose…

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