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.
The ADPPA is the first nationwide US privacy bill that stands a chance of being legislated and changing the face of the entire US privacy landscape. There is a general consensus that the proposed data minimization guidelines could significantly reshape the processes and procedures businesses will utilize to collect consumer data.
Age verification laws will require social media platforms to collect more of your personal information, from your birth certificate to your school records to biometrics. The process may expose you to more privacy threats, such as potential data abuse, data leaks, and identity theft.
The 2024 election season is facing an unprecedented challenge: AI-driven disinformation and cyberattacks. As AI’s influence grows, its ability to spread misinformation, create deepfakes, and target election systems becomes more dangerous.
Decision-makers have much work to do in order to make the federal privacy law a success. Enforcement will be the most important factor. The stricter the enforcement the higher likelihood of compliance and will dictate implementation willingness across the board.
When it comes to web applications, there is no substitute for a thorough penetration test. A comprehensive penetration test also offers visibility into blind spots within the application’s attack surface, giving teams a chance to plan ahead and keep attackers from succeeding.
Given the ongoing prevalence of advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks, organisations have every right to be wary. To prevent APT attacks, they simply need to practise basic cyber hygiene.
It’s clear that the introduction of generative AI to the mainstream is tipping the scales towards a war of algorithms against algorithms, machines fighting machines. For cyber security, the time to introduce AI into the toolkits of defenders is now.
While the transition to passwordless security procedures is already underway, adoption is still limited mainly in larger companies in certain industries. There are many steps that can (and should) be taken to accelerate the authentication journey to make passwordless authentication mainstream.
Facial recognition technology may not be as accurate as some people think and the U.S. Congress is likely to introduce bipartisan legislation to limit how the technology can be used, and by whom.
