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Defense best practices
Defense best practices

A cybersecurity company that illuminates, examines and remediates internal and external risks released the results of its second report on trends in external cyber defense, highlighting the new risks facing organizations outside the traditional IT environment. “As enterprise attack surfaces continue to expand, cyber threat actors are adapting their strategies to exploit new vulnerabilities,” said Joel Molinoff, Global Head of Supply Chain Defense at BlueVoyant. “BlueVoyant conducted this research to shed light on the attack vectors that organizations need to be aware of and provide recommendations for action to combat the latest threats.”…

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Risks from generative AI
Risks from generative AI

Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Copilot have started their triumphant advance and will no longer be able to be stopped. Technologies that can independently create text and images using simple prompts and generate ideas have significantly changed the way we think creatively and solve problems in a short period of time. Although (generative) AI was initially met with some reservations - particularly when it comes to job losses - it is becoming increasingly clear that this technology can complement, rather than replace, human skills. Generative AI is evolving and becoming established in the business world…

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Cybersecurity: 5 special challenges in 2024
Cybersecurity: Challenges in 2024

Artificial intelligence, increasing data volumes, attacks on cloud and SaaS environments and new regulations are difficulties that cybersecurity will have to contend with in 2024. The year 2024 presents numerous challenges for cybersecurity. The threat landscape is evolving. Below are five developments that could contribute to lasting changes in the cybersecurity landscape in the coming year. 1. New security strategy due to the data explosion Forecasts from the new Zero Labs Report report assume that the amount of data a company needs to secure will increase by 2024 percent in 42 and increase in the next…

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IT specialists: 149.000 positions unfilled in Germany
IT specialists: 149.000 positions unfilled in Germany

According to the Bitkom survey, positions for IT specialists remain unfilled on average for over seven months. 77% of those surveyed expect the situation to continue to worsen. 50% of companies hope to be supported by AI. The shortage of IT specialists continues to worsen. There are currently 149.000 unfilled positions for IT experts in German companies. That's another 12.000 more than a year ago, when there were 137.000 job vacancies. These are the results of the new Bitkom study on the job market for IT specialists, for which 853 companies from all sectors were surveyed. Only during…

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Artificial intelligence: The most important trends in 2024
Artificial intelligence: These are the most important trends in 2024

Further developments in the area of ​​artificial intelligence pose both cybersecurity risks and opportunities for companies. Generative AI will become increasingly important, especially in business applications. AI technologies are developing at an unprecedented pace. The advances in artificial intelligence, especially generative AI (GenAI), open up new possibilities that will significantly change our economy, ways of working and living. However, the Cisco AI Readiness Index shows that although 95 percent of German companies have or are developing an AI strategy, only 7 percent are best prepared for the use of artificial intelligence...

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Cybercriminals: This is how they threaten companies in 2024
The new ways of cybercriminals in 2024

In 2024, cybercriminals will increasingly manipulate texts, images and voices with AI and demand increasing ransoms from companies, say the experts at G DATA CyberDefense. What cyber risks threaten companies in the coming year? According to G DATA CyberDefense, artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming a serious threat to IT security. Cybercriminals are increasingly taking advantage of the great potential of artificial intelligence and endangering IT security with fakes. Further challenges such as increasing regulatory requirements and high ransom demands make IT security even more of a Sisyphean task. Cybercriminals are using AI for more efficient…

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IT security in Germany – three forecasts for 2024
IT security in Germany - three forecasts for 2024

The result of the current BSI report is worrying. Ransomware is still on the rise and threatens IT security. But AI also causes headaches for IT managers. The IT security situation is at risk, according to the current BSI report. Once again or still, one would like to add. Ransomware is still the biggest threat, but it feels like it has been around for so long that it is hardly noticed anymore - to the chagrin of many of those affected. At the same time, a new specter is looming on the horizon that will keep those responsible for security on their toes in the coming years:…

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Generative AI hacking
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

An international hacking study shows that 72 percent of hackers believe that artificial intelligence (AI) will not replace human creativity in security research and vulnerability management. Generative AI is a key topic in the Inside the Mind of a Hacker report. More than half of those surveyed (55 percent) said they can already surpass the capabilities of hackers or will be able to do so in the next five years. Nearly three in four respondents (72 percent) believe that generative AI will not be able to...

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Compliance with AI in the company
Compliance with AI in the company

The almost limitless possibilities of LLMs (Large Language Models) are incredibly exciting. Each month there are new uses for these tools that are not always compatible with corporate compliance policies. The possibilities range from quickly and inexpensively creating thumbnails for blog posts, to the behavior of people who fundamentally oppose and criticize a blog post, to coherently translating blog posts into other languages ​​- while fully understanding the content. Even in the world beyond blog posts, this nascent tool holds tremendous…

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AI-powered identity security
AI-powered identity security

An exposure management company, has announced the launch of several new distinctive Identity Security products that use the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to provide a unified view of all user identities and entitlement risks. According to a study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Tenable, half (50 percent) of surveyed IT and security professionals worldwide say they lack an effective way to integrate user rights data into their vulnerability management. This poses a serious problem as Active Directory usually has something like this...

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