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How to minimize remote access cyber security threats in 2024

CIO

Organizations have shifted to remote desktop work environments at an increasing speed since then – simultaneously expanding their attack surface and exposing themselves to greater cybersecurity threats. Given that threat actors exploit critical vulnerabilities within mere hours of publication, this poses a serious security risk for companies.

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VU raises $12M to remove cybersecurity friction from digital experiences

TechCrunch

Stranieri, who has worked in the cybersecurity industry for the past 20 years, got the idea for VU in 2007 after spending hours helping his grandmother verify her identity with the Argentinian government in what turned out to be a two-minute process. It’s time for security teams to embrace security data lakes.

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Start your zero-trust journey with ZTNA over VPN

CIO

Zero trust is a cybersecurity framework that assumes that no user should be automatically trusted. By 2025, Gartner analysts predict that 60% of organizations 1 will be adopting zero-trust principles. ZTNA enables work-from-anywhere (WFA) employees to securely access applications.

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Akeyless secures a cash infusion to help companies manage their passwords, certificates and keys

TechCrunch

Back in 2018, Refael Angel, a former security software engineer at Intuit, had an idea for a new approach to protect encryption keys — the random string of bits created to scramble and unscramble data — on the cloud. GitGuardian estimates that app security engineers on average have to handle over 3,400 secrets occurrences.

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Safeguarding your digital ecosystem: effective strategies to detect and mitigate API abuse

CIO

Gartner studies indicate that by 2025, half of all data theft will be attributed to unsecured APIs. Strategy 1: Implement strong authentication and authorization mechanisms Enforcing robust authentication and authorization mechanisms is a fundamental step in preventing API abuse. SQLi and RCE).

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. Data due diligence Generative AI especially has particular implications for data security, Mann says.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA and NSA Dive into CI/CD Security, While MITRE Ranks Top Software Weaknesses

Tenable

1 – CISA and NSA issue CI/CD defense guidance Looking for recommendations and best practices to improve the security of your continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines? How to adopt cloud-native security, how to apply zero trust, how to educate all relevant stakeholders from staff to regulators to cloud partners?,”