Next year, cybersecurity becomes an AI-driven battleground where trust erodes, deception scales, and the speed of intelligent machines determines who stays secure and who gets left behind.
Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
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The secret order, issued in late November, would have made India’s security app a mandatory inclusion on all new devices from smartphone makers within 90 days. Smartphone makers would have also been required to push it to older devices that are still supported via a security update.
A data breach at South Korea’s largest online retailer, Coupang, has exposed the personal information of nearly 34 million customers, sparking calls for harsher penalties.
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