New AI security guidelines offers a general overview of expected risks and threats from the initial design process, through the development life cycle and deployment, and all the way through ongoing operation and maintenance after deployment.
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.
Joint cybersecurity advisory warned that state and independent hackers continue to leverage commonly exploited vulnerabilities to compromise governments and private organizations.
Iranian APT groups targeted critical infrastructure entities by exploiting known Microsoft Exchange Server and Fortinet vulnerabilities using malicious and legitimate tools.
Anthropic's calls the incident the "first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign" and has attributed it with high confidence to a Chinese state-sponsored group it calls GTG-1002. The campaign took place in mid-September and the integration of AI agents for performance of autonomous tasks is described as unprecedented.
Development automation needs to shift from an almost exclusively technical automation-for-speed perspective to a more business centric perspective of automation-for-balance.
Securing Active Directory credentials is absolutely crucial to protect against network breaches. Access management can help put a protective layer at the forefront of your network.
By harnessing the capabilities of AI to detect, mitigate, and recover from ransomware attacks, organizations can fortify their cyber resilience, safeguarding critical infrastructure and the essential services they provide to society.
With evolving threats and cybercrimes, things will undoubtedly get worse before they get better. This is leaving many cybersecurity professionals to consider new and innovative ways of improving productivity, reducing burnout, and combatting the cybersecurity skills gap.
With the uptick in VPN use, the likelihood of data breaches also increases. Hardware-based VPNs use a variety of security measures and features to protect any and all information.
NERC, a non-profit regulatory authority that oversees utilities, revealed this week that about 25% of the electric utilities on the North American power grid downloaded the SolarWinds backdoor.










