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Cybersecurity in 2023: Russian escalation, Chinese espionage, Iranian “hacktivism”
In 2022, state-sponsored cyber activity has been drawn into sharp focus, ransomware continued to dominate as the primary threat facing organizations, and there have been …

Potential threats and sinister implications of ChatGPT
ChatGPT from OpenAI is a conversational chatbot recently released in preview mode for research purposes. It takes natural language as input and aims to solve problems, provide …

How data protection is evolving in a digital world
Companies are challenged with more complex hybrid IT environments. They are raising budgets to fend off cyberattacks and keep up as production environments continue to …

How to succeed in cyber crisis management and avoid a Tower of Babel
Although cyberattacks have become more common, handling them remains extremely challenging for organizations. Even if things go well on the technical level, incident response …

Threats that will dominate headlines in 2023
In this Help Net Security video, MacKenzie Jackson, Developer Advocate at GitGuardian, offers his cybersecurity predictions for 2023. These include: Developers will be a …

Training, endpoint management reduce remote working cybersecurity risks
33% of companies are not providing any cybersecurity awareness training to users who work remotely, according to Hornetsecurity. The study also revealed that nearly 74% of …

Passkeys, going passwordless, and the future of authentication
There are a variety of roadblocks associated with moving to passwordless authentication. Foremost is that people hate change. End users push back when you ask them to abandon …

Why encrypting emails isn’t as simple as it sounds
The quality of protected communications matters – a lot. If the sent material is highly sensitive and the legislation and/or policy demands high security, opportunistic …

10 data security enhancements to consider as your employees return to the office
77% of IT decision makers across the United States and Canada believe their companies are likely to face a data breach within the next three years according to survey results …

Post-quantum cybersecurity threats loom large
A new Zapata Computing report reveals a deepening commitment from enterprises that points to a maturing industry with widespread, global interest and increased urgency …

Week in review: ChatGPT as an infosec assistant, Google offers help to EU cybersecurity startups
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Google is calling EU cybersecurity founders Google announced that the Google …

7 security predictions for 2023
What will the security landscape in 2023 look like? Here’s my take. 1. Attackers’ tactics will evolve, and defense strategies will evolve with them With online platforms and …
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