risk management
Global hiring risks: What you need to know about identity fraud and screening trends
Hiring new employees has always carried some risk, but that risk is growing in new ways, and identity fraud is becoming more common in the hiring process. HireRight’s 2025 …
Why organizations need a new approach to risk management
To succeed in the risk environment, risk, audit, and compliance leaders need to focus on what Gartner calls “reflexive risk ownership.” This is a future state where business …
Protecting farms from hackers: A Q&A with John Deere’s Deputy CISO
Agriculture is a connected, software-driven industry where cybersecurity is just as essential as tractors and harvesters. From embedded hardware in smart fleets to defending …
Why a new AI tool could change how we test insider threat defenses
Insider threats are among the hardest attacks to detect because they come from people who already have legitimate access. Security teams know the risk well, but they often …
Global OT cyber risk could top $329 billion, new report warns
A new study from Dragos and Marsh McLennan puts hard numbers on the global financial risk tied to OT cyber incidents. The 2025 OT Security Financial Risk Report estimates that …
Third-party partners or ticking time bombs?
In this Help Net Security video, Ngaire Elizabeth Guzzetti, Technical Director Supply Chain at CyXcel, discusses why a third of U.S. organizations don’t trust …
AI can write your code, but nearly half of it may be insecure
While GenAI excels at producing functional code, it introduces security vulnerabilities in 45 percent of cases, according to Veracode’s 2025 GenAI Code Security Report, which …
Why 90% of cyber leaders are feeling the heat
90% of cyber leaders find managing cyber risks harder today than five years ago, mainly due to the explosion of AI and expanding attack surfaces, according to BitSight. These …
Security tooling pitfalls for small teams: Cost, complexity, and low ROI
In this Help Net Security interview, Aayush Choudhury, CEO at Scrut Automation, discusses why many security tools built for large enterprises don’t work well for leaner, …
What’s keeping risk leaders up at night? AI, tariffs, and cost cuts
Enterprise risk leaders are most concerned about rising tariffs and trade tensions heading into the second half of 2025, according to a new report from Gartner. The firm’s …
Your supply chain security strategy might be missing the biggest risk
Third-party involvement in data breaches has doubled this year from 15 percent to nearly 30 percent. In response, many organizations have sharpened their focus on third-party …
The fraud trends shaping 2025: Pressure builds on online retailers
Fraud is growing faster than revenue in eCommerce. That’s one of the first things PwC and Forter point out in their new report, and it’s a wake-up call for online retailers. …
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