In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss the complex task of phasing out magnetic stripe payment cards and why the United States lags behind, the great debate over best of breed vs. a single platform vendor approach, and AI insights from Palo Alto CIO Meerah Rajavel.
Palo Alto Networks is experimenting with generative AI to improve product delivery and employee experience. The company just completed a proof of concept for a go-to-market strategy for product relaunches, and AI is helping to accelerate the process, said Meerah Rajavel, CIO of Palo Alto Networks.
To rethink security strategies, enterprises should tap into edge computing, adopt technologies such as generative AI and ensure "secure by default" practices, said Fastly Vice President Sean Leach. He discussed the evolving risk landscape and third-party providers' role in managing security.
Generative AI is growing rapidly as organizations seek ways to transform human tasks. With the ability to process and analyze large volumes of data in real time, AI can empower defenders to detect and respond to threats more effectively, said John Giamatteo, cybersecurity president at BlackBerry.
Supply chain attacks, such as the MOVEit data breach that has affected more than 150 organizations, are "the nature of the landscape now," said security leader Ian Hill of Upp Corp. The answer to this scourge may be using generative AI to qualify partners and to analyze and score supply chain risk.
Apart from some of the threats surrounding AI, this emerging technology can help defenders formulate effective policies and controls to prevent and mitigate BEC scams. With the evolving threat landscape, harnessing AI becomes crucial in defending, said Johan Dreyer, CTO at Mimecast.
Given the sustained onslaught of cyberattacks against the healthcare industry, organizations can help protect all enterprises simply by sharing advance information, said Steve Hunter, vice president of marketing and development at Health-ISAC. Ensuring anonymity helps users share more freely.
Attackers are targeting the weakest link in the supply chain. Because every vendor poses a risk, you need to classify them by risk and track all the data they manage, said Matan Or-El, co-founder and CEO of Panorays, who advised taking a holistic view of your third-party risk program.
Operationalizing security comes down to making it part of the business process, and everyone in the organization must be responsible. Goals and the objectives must be clearly spelled out, including lines of accountability and ownership, said Jason Hart, chief technology officer for EMEA at Rapid7.
Information security is no longer confined to the tech domain, and instead must align with business outcomes, adapted to suit an organizations' risk appetite, said Matt Gordon-Smith, former CISO at Gatwick Airport. Security teams often must balance competing needs and risks.
ThreatLocker will debut a security reporting tool for small businesses that not only details what's running in their environment but also where it was developed, CEO Danny Jenkins said. The company can break down where any dark mode extension in a client's environment came from and who's funding it.
Service providers typically lack the skills and large security teams needed to thwart complex and high-volume cyberattacks on their own, said A10 Networks CEO Dhrupad Trivedi. MSPs telecom and cloud providers struggle to assess the scale of cyber incidents and to detect and remediate them.
Legacy DLP is broken due to excess complexity, extended time to value and misalignment with security and business goals, said Next's Chris Denbigh-White. Addressing insider threats in a meaningful way is one of the biggest data protection challenges for organizations, he said.
A growing number of security teams are looking to consolidate tools to simplify operations, said Gartner analyst Dionisio Zumerle. "When you have the complexity, it's very hard to identify misconfigurations between the different overlapping tools, and it's also hard to identify security gaps."
Hackers use generative AI to churn out code that exploits vulnerabilities, while defenders use it to get more context around flaws discovered in their ecosystem, said CEO Amit Yoran. Tenable uses generative AI to spot and prioritize all the instances of MOVEit in a customer's environment.
Our website uses cookies. Cookies enable us to provide the best experience possible and help us understand how visitors use our website. By browsing databreachtoday.com, you agree to our use of cookies.