IBM and Red Hat are betting $5 billion that open source needs a security guard
IBM and Red Hat announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion commitment backed by new frontier AI capabilities and a global force of more than 20,000 engineers to help …
How one quick AI check can leak your company’s secrets
In this Help Net Security video, Dinesh Nagarajan, Global Partner, Cyber Security Services at IBM Consulting, walks through a situation in which an employee shared production …
IBM pushes toward quantum advantage by 2026 with new Nighthawk processor
IBM is taking another major step toward its goal of achieving quantum advantage by 2026 and fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2029, unveiling its most advanced quantum …
Attackers are coming for drug formulas and patient data
In the pharmaceutical industry, clinical trial data, patient records, and proprietary drug formulas are prime targets for cybercriminals. These high-value assets make the …
Average global data breach cost now $4.44 million
IBM released its Cost of a Data Breach Report, which revealed AI adoption is greatly outpacing AI security and governance. While the overall number of organizations …
IBM Power11 debuts with uptime, security, and energy efficiency upgrades
IBM unveiled Power11 today, a new generation of Power servers built to improve performance across processing, hardware, and virtualization. It’s designed to run reliably both …
Why layoffs increase cybersecurity risks
A wave of layoffs has swept through the tech industry, leaving IT teams in a rush to revoke all access those employees may have had. Additionally, 54% of tech hiring managers …
Flexible working models fuel surge in device theft
76% of respondents have been impacted by incidents of device theft in the past two years, with incidents more common in organizations with more flexible working models, …
Phishing emails delivering infostealers surge 84%
Cybercriminals continued to shift to stealthier tactics, with lower-profile credential theft spiking, while ransomware attacks on enterprises declined, according to IBM. …
Sector by sector: How data breaches are wrecking bottom lines
Data breaches are rising across industries, hitting healthcare, finance, and retail especially hard. The damage goes beyond lost data, as it’s financial, operational, and …
How enterprise leaders can secure and govern agentic AI
In this Help Net Security video, Nataraj Nagaratnam, an IBM Fellow and CTO for Cloud Security, discusses enterprises’ steps to lay a secure foundation for agentic AI …
Platformization is key to reduce cybersecurity complexity
Organizations are facing security complexity challenges as they juggle an average of 83 different security solutions from 29 vendors, according to a report by IBM and Palo …
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