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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs

CIO

Multifactor authentication fatigue and biometrics shortcomings Multifactor authentication (MFA) is a popular technique for strengthening the security around logins. With MFA, the website or application will send a text message or push notification to the user with a code to enter along with their password.

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Don’t gamble with your identity verification practices

CIO

Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. This vulnerability is not unique to MGM nor Okta; it’s a systemic problem with multi-factor authentication. We should all be assured that we are interacting authentically with the person(s) who they say they are.

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Code Review Services from Senior Architects

Mobilunity

This kind of code is critical for your end product, and it’s unattainable without professional source code review services. From this article, you’ll learn how to employ a code reviewer or hire QA tester. A code auditor can also help you identify security violations and errors in architecture design.

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Code signing: securing against supply chain vulnerabilities

CircleCI

This collection of agents and actors involved in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is called the software supply chain. Because you are working with several moving parts — including open source material, APIs, and so on — it is crucial to know just how secure each component of your software supply chain is.

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AI's Offensive & Defensive Impacts

Palo Alto Networks

As he bluntly states, "I think this will be short-lived and phishing will take the number one spot again due to AI." AI language models can study a target's entire email history and communication patterns to then craft perfectly authentic-sounding phishing messages. Sikorski explains: "They can build trust very quickly.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO

Why securing cloud workloads is an urgent matter In recent years, major cloud service providers encountered 6,000 malware samples actively communicating with them, underlining the magnitude of cloud security challenges. Due to the current economic circumstances security teams operate under budget constraints. 8 Complexity.

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ChatGPT and Your Organisation: How to Monitor Usage and Be More Aware of Security Risks

CIO

People are looking to the AI chatbot to provide all sorts of assistance, from writing code to translating text, grading assignments or even writing songs. In another example , Samsung staff leveraged ChatGPT to fix errors in some source code but leaked confidential data, including notes from meetings and performance-related data.

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