Cybersecurity firm Cyberark says that “non-human” identities outnumber human identities by more than 80 to 1. This includes machine identities and AI identities. Riddle me this: If you have a compromise (or think you do) and you see the “user” is Joe but Joe is logged into 20 virtual machines and has 50 AI driven […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a tale of three firewall vendors: Cisco, Checkpoint and Fortinet and their security challenges. First, even though we likely think of a firewall as a piece of hardware, in reality, it is just a specialized computer – think of it as the original Internet of Things device – that runs a lot of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Five of eight Ivy League schools have been hacked in the last six months. Add the most effective technique is definitely not high tech – it is plain old social engineering on the phone. Harvard discovered that its Alumni Affairs and Development systems were compromised last month. The hack exposed the personal information of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The president would like to help his campaign donors and his kids by killing off any limits on how AI is used. Since the White House has not espoused a strategy as of yet on placing any guardrails on AI (other than we don’t want any guardrails on AI), the states have stepped in and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You may have heard of the Chinese cyberattack on American telecommunications giants like AT&T, Verizon and Lumen (AKA Qwest or US West). Between 2019 and AT LEAST 2024, they had free reign to listen in to conversations like Trump, Kamala Harris and millions of ordinary people, but the scope is getting much bigger. While the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SBOMs or Software Bills of Material are a way to let customers know what is in your software – kind of like the list of ingredients in food. The feds came out with an initial SBOM guideline in 2021 and have been working on it since then. Different people have different takes on SBOMs from […]
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