94 percent of organizations suffer email security incidents
According to a new study, 94 percent of global organizations have experienced email security incidents last year, up two percent from the year before.
The latest Email Security Risk Report from Egress looks at attitudes and approaches to email security, the evolution of risks, and the impact of incidents, based on responses from 500 cybersecurity leaders.
Balancing risk and reward with low-code and no-code platforms [Q&A]
In recent years, enterprises have increasingly turned to low-code and no-code platforms in order to streamline their development processes.
With the introduction of AI, this sector is evolving even faster and Wing To, general manager of Intelligent DevOps at Digital.ai, believes this needs organizations to develop a cautious approach. We spoke to him to find out why.
How AI is set to transform the legal sector [Q&A]
The use of generative AI is becoming common across many industries, but while it undoubtedly offers benefits it can lead to problems too.
Legal firms in particular can fall foul of poor results, one firm was fined $5,000 after a court found that one of its lawyers had used ChatGPT to write a court brief which included false citations.
IBM and SAP team up to offer consumer goods and retail AI solutions
Industry giant IBM is today announcing a collaboration with ERP specialist SAP to develop solutions to help clients in the consumer packaged goods and retail industries enhance their supply chain, finance operations, sales and services using generative AI.
This involves embedding IBM's watsonx enterprise-ready AI and data platform and AI assistants, into SAP solutions to create new generative and traditional AI solutions focused on addressing the complexities of the direct store delivery business process and product portfolio management.
Generative AI use in the workplace leads to added risks
More than 10 percent of enterprise employees access at least one generative AI application every month, compared to just two percent a year ago, but there are security risks as a result.
New research from Netskope shows ChatGPT was the most popular generative AI application in 2023, accounting for seven percent of enterprise usage. The number of cloud apps the enterprise accessed also increased by an average of 19 percent per year, with users jumping from 14 to 20 different apps in just two years.
Up to a third of companies could fall foul of new bulk email rules
New research from cyber resilience company Red Sift shows that 33 percent of publicly traded companies worldwide are not protected by the DMARC email standard, though this is down from 70.5 percent in 2022.
However, in light of Google and Yahoo's new rules for bulk senders -- those sending over 5,000 emails daily -- which come into force on February 1st and are aimed at reducing spam, not using DMARC is a problem.
Who will win the battle of open vs closed AI? [Q&A]
Closed AI products like Bard and ChatGPT (ironically from OpenAI) have already delivered a practical, powerful chatbot experience and are being employed by many businesses.
Open AI by contrast is still in its early stages and has not seen wide adoption. We spoke to Mike Finley, CTO and co-founder of AnswerRocket, to find out the differences between the two and how they're set to develop.
SecurityScorecard launches industry-specific ratings for the telecoms sector
Some industries make more attractive targets for cybercriminals than others, thanks to the type of data they hold and the services they provide. The telecoms sector is one such. 85 percent of the top telecom companies in the US, UK, France, Italy, Denmark, and Germany experienced a third-party data breach in the past 12 months alone.
Which is why SecurityScorecard is introducing a new set of security ratings developed especially for telecommunications companies, internet service providers, and cloud providers.
Brazilians exposed in massive data leak
Researchers at Cybernews have uncovered a huge data leak which could potentially put the entire population of Brazil at risk.
They uncovered a publicly accessible Elasticsearch instance which contained more than 223 million records-worth of private data belonging to Brazilian individuals -- the country's current population is only around 217 million.
Enterprises struggling with more vulnerabilities than they can handle
According to new research 82 percent of companies report an increase in the gap between the number of vulnerabilities/exposures in their environment and their ability to remediate them.
The 2024 State of Security Posture Survey from XM Cyber is based on a survey of 300 CISOs and security decision-makers from large organizations in the US and UK, and shows 62 percent of security and IT teams actively engage in the remediation of exposures or vulnerabilities, handling an average of 12 per week.
Ditching passwords in favor of passwordless, phishing-resistant authentication [Q&A]
According to the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance, passwords are the root cause of more than 80 percent of data breaches. And yet, many organizations -- both big and small -- continue to use this antiquated approach to authentication. In fact, recent research from Yubico, which surveyed more than 16,000 employees across eight countries, found 59 percent of respondents still rely on usernames and passwords as their primary method of authentication.
Why do we continue to see the same old same old, especially when the authentication industry has made such significant strides in not only passwordless but also phishing-resistant authentication? We spoke with Axiad founder and co-CEO Bassam Al-Khalidi to get an answer to this question and find out how companies can make the move to a passwordless, phishing-resistant future. Read on to hear what he had to say.
Organizations don't know how to address software supply chain security
Organizations are struggling to keep up with vulnerabilities amid software supply chain complexity, with more than 40 percent still in reactive mode according to a new report from Slim.AI.
The 2023 Container Report, based on a survey conducted with Enterprise Strategy Group, shows few organizations know exactly how to address security in the upstream dependencies of the applications and the containers they run in production.
How SMBs are tailoring their cybersecurity programs [Q&A]
The uncertain economic climate has led to many smaller businesses cutting their budgets over the last year. But where cybersecurity spend is concerned this can be a risky move.
We spoke to Geoff Bibby, senior vice president at OpenText Cybersecurity to discuss how SMBs and managed security providers (MSPs) can adapt their security plans while still remaining protected.
Why not all AI is created equal and how the wrong choice could be hurting your business [Q&A]
AI seems to be everywhere at the moment. But despite the fact that it has become ubiquitous, it isn't all the same.
Steve Benton, VP of threat research for Anomali, talked to us about why not all AI is equal and what businesses need to consider to ensure they get the most from the technology.
Why enterprise networks need to move to an as-a-service model [Q&A]
For years, the enterprise has built bespoke networks to connect all company resources. These networks were slow to build, but once built did not change much.
That's changing as networks become more complex and dynamic. Workers are highly distributed, edge computing has grown, most enterprises now connect to multiple clouds, and connecting to partners and customers is increasingly common.
Ian's Bio
Ian spent almost 20 years working with computers before he discovered that writing about them was easier than fixing them. Since then he's written for a number of computer magazines and is a former editor of PC Utilities. Follow him on Mastodon
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