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More connected, less secure: Addressing IoT and OT threats to the enterprise

CIO

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a permanent fixture for consumers and enterprises as the world becomes more and more interconnected. By 2027, the global number of connected IoT devices is projected to exceed 29 billion, a significant increase from the 16.7 billion devices reported in 2023.

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EAP-CREDS: Enabling Policy-Oriented Credential Management in Access Networks

CableLabs

There’s a wide variety of Internet of Things (IoT) devices out there, and although they differ in myriad ways – power, data collection capabilities, connectivity – we want them all to work seamlessly with our networks. devices, applications) to authenticate to the network even before being granted connectivity.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Insights on Log4Shell, the Metaverse, IoT, Pig Butchering, Active Directory

Tenable

Get the latest on Log4Shell’s global remediation status; the need for metaverse security rules; a shutdown of “pig butchering” domains; tips for secure IoT products; an informal poll about AD security; and more! . Policy Recommendations to Strengthen OT Cybersecurity ” (Tenable). 6 - Tips for building more secure IoT products.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Even internal usage can cause confusion if you’re a multinational and employees in France, for example, get information from an HR bot based on pension or parental leave policy in Australia. All of these additional machines, workloads, and services require trusted identities, which is amplifying the need for machine identity management.”

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Zero Trust Security for NIS2 compliance: What you need to know

CIO

Given rising IoT adoption, erosion of the corporate perimeter due to work-from-everywhere, and increasingly sophisticated threats that exploit “trusted” users and devices for malicious purposes, these security approaches can expose the organization to greater risk. [iv]

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Says Midnight Blizzard Swiped U.S. Gov’t Emails During Microsoft Hack, Tells Fed Agencies To Take Immediate Action

Tenable

The attack against Microsoft began in November 2023, when Midnight Blizzard – also known as Nobelium, Cozy Bear and APT29 – compromised a legacy, non-production test account that lacked multi-factor authentication protection. That’s according to IoT Analytics’ “ State of Tech Employment Spring 2024 ” report, released this week.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: DHS Tracks New Ransomware Trends, as Attacks Drive Up Cyber Insurance Claims and Snatch Variant Triggers Alert

Tenable

The guide, which covers practices including user authentication, access control and change management, is aimed at developers and security operations teams that want to boost the security of their source code projects on SCM platforms.