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What is new in July, 2024 in Cybersecurity?
The CrowdStrike outage highlights a disconnect: How can organizations balance cybersecurity and operations?
One side needs to protect systems through vigilant updates. The other must ensure those changes don’t disrupt those systems. The global outages caused by CrowdStrike’s update last week highlight an ongoing tension between cybersecurity and operations teams. Read more
2024 Olympics put cybersecurity teams on high alert
Escalating cyberthreats, hacktivism, and cyber espionage suggest the Paris Games may present the greatest cybersecurity risk ever. Here’s what to look out for and how to prep. Read more
SentinelOne: cybersecurity shouldn’t require constant updates
The unprecedented IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update a week ago has raised questions about the frequency of the vendor’s updates to its Falcon platform, SentinelOne chief executive Tomer Weingarten told CRN. Read more
Hackers race to win millions in contest to thwart cyberattacks with AI
Computer scientists brainstorm in Pentagon-backed competition to design an AI program that scans open-source code for flaws bad actors could exploit. Read more
Payment card theft putting millions of users at risk, cybersecurity company finds
A recent investigation by the cybersecurity company NordVPN found that more than half a million payment and bank card details from customers around the world have been leaked on the dark web. Americans were the most targeted. Experts say to watch out for phishing emails and texts pretending to be from government agencies and banks. Many are designed to get your card numbers and more. Read more
Cybersecurity Mesh: The Future Of Network Defense
For years, we’ve relied on a castle-and-moat approach to cybersecurity. Firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and VPNs formed a digital fortress around our networks. It worked well when all our assets were neatly contained within the corporate perimeter. But today? That perimeter is almost dissolved. Remote work has exploded. Cloud services are everywhere. IoT devices are proliferating. Our data and applications are scattered across multiple environments, both on-premises and in the cloud. The concept of a traditional network boundary is rapidly becoming obsolete. Read more
