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How CISOs Can Influence API Security Change

| | API security , AppSec , CISO , CISO Suite , security
Security incidents can cost a chief information security officer (CISO) their job. For example, cybersecurity breaches at Capital One, Uber, Equifax and plenty of others have led to the firing or forced ...
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Don’t Trust the Security of the Software Supply Chain

| | Secure Coding , security , software bill of materials , software supply chain , zero trust
Now more than ever, organizations are relying on the supply chain for basic business operations. According to Charlie Jones, director of product management with ReversingLabs, there are two reasons for this: The ...
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5 Ways to Reduce the Attack Surface for Microservices

| | Attack Surface , Cloud-Native Security , Container Security , cyberattacks , microservices
Microservices is a software development approach where an application is divided into small, independent and loosely coupled services that work together to provide the application’s overall functionality. Each microservice is designed to ...
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Orca Security Traces Cloud Vulnerabilities Back to Code

| | Cloud Security , code security , Orca Security , Secure Coding , tracing , Vulnerabilities
Orca Security today announced it added an ability to trace cloud security risks in production environments back to both the original code that created the issue and the developer that wrote it ...
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IT Security Budgets Soar as Orgs Battle Rising Threats

| | budgets , Cybersecurity , IT Security , threats
Median IT security budgets have more than tripled—to $5.3 million in 2022 from $1.4 million in 2018—leading to a significant increase in the cost of combating cybersecurity threats over the past five ...
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US ‘Strike Force’ Keeps Disruptive Tech From Adversaries

| | Compliance , Cyberlaw , government , Strike Force , U.S. government
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Department of Commerce launched a “Disruptive Technology Strike Force” to investigate and prosecute criminal violations of U.S. export control laws. The aim is to ...
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TikTok Abused Kids’ Data — UK Fines it $16 Million

| | Australia , Bytedance , children , Children and smartphones , five eyes , information commissioner's office , SB Blogwatch , TikTok , uk , Won’t somebody think of the children?
$8.50 per child: UK regulator punishes TikTok at 5.5% of revenue. Says app illegally tracked children ...
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Splunk: Cybersecurity Dynamics Rapidly Changing

| | cyberattacks , Cybersecurity , Enterprise Strategy Group , generative AI , Splunk
A survey of 1,520 cybersecurity and IT leaders published today found more than half (52%) reporting their organization suffered a data breach in the past two years, with 62% experiencing monthly unplanned ...
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Sysdig Details Proxyjacking Attack Leveraging Log4j Vulnerability

| | Cloud-native , Cryptojacking , cyberattacks , Log4j , proxyjacking , Sysdig
Sysdig today published a report that described how cybercriminals are exploiting the Log4j vulnerability to gain access to IP addresses that are then sold to entities that resell them. Dubbed proxyjacking, the ...
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What the TikTok Ban Could Mean for GRC

| | Compliance , Cyberlaw , Data Security , governance , GRC , risk , TikTok
The White House and TikTok’s critics in Congress have made it clear: They consider TikTok a dangerous social media app and national security threat. Throughout the March 23, 2023, congressional hearing, TikTok ...
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