Tag: cybersecurity
Google’s New AI Tool Uncovers Critical Zero-Day Vulnerability in SQLite
As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, the need for innovative tools to enhance vulnerability detection has never been greater. Cybersecurity companies like Palo Alto, Fortinet, and CrowdStrike have responded by incor Read more…
CSA Report Reveals AI’s Potential for Enhancing Offensive Security
The rise of AI, including large language models (LLMs) and AI-powered agents, has dramatically reshaped the field of offensive security - a branch of cybersecurity focused on proactively identifying and exploiting securi Read more…
Sentra Announces Industry-First GenAI Assistant for Cloud Data Security
While GenAI offers enormous potential to transform our world, there are some concerns, including security risks. To help overcome these challenges, Sentra Inc., a cloud-native security startup, announced Sentra Jagger, a Read more…
Buckle Up: It’s Time for 2024 Security Predictions
It doesn’t take a prophet to know that computer security will be in the news in 2024, and probably not in a good way. What we don’t know are the particulars of how cybercriminals will be trying to penetrate defenses Read more…
UC Berkeley Profs Raise $10.6M Seed, Launch GenAI Startup for Security
Generative AI driven by advanced machine learning and neural networks has ushered us into a new era of cybersecurity. Using generative AI to boost cybersecurity is an evolving field with the potential to transform how en Read more…
DARPA Issues Cyber Challenge to Find and Fix Security Vulns with AI
Today at Black Hat USA conference, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) announced the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), a two-year competition to build artificia Read more…
How Neuromorphic Processing and Self-Searching Storage Can Slash Cyber Risk for Federal Agencies
The amount of information organizations must process at the edge has exploded. This is especially true for federal agencies and the military, which generate enormous quantities of data from mobile devices and sensors in Read more…
Data Fabric Specialist Avalor Raises $30M to Stop the Security Data Deluge
A new data fabric player is on the scene, this time for security. Avalor has emerged from stealth via a $25 million Series A round for a total of $30 million raised. Avalor’s Data Fabric for Security application use Read more…
Data Leaders Share Thoughts on World Backup Day
As far as holidays go, World Backup Day does not generate the excitement of Christmas or Halloween. There is no mascot, such as a “Backup Bunny” (sorry, Easter), nor any imbibing of adult beverages, as on St. Patrick Read more…
Feds Boost Cyber Spending as Security Threats to Data Proliferate
Ransomware attacks may have frozen fewer bits of data in 2022, but that doesn’t mean cybercriminals are resting on their laurels. Indeed, new threats are waiting in the wings and demanding new responses, which is one r Read more…
Using AI to Automate, Orchestrate, and Accelerate Fraud Prevention
As fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) cost government agencies and private companies billions each year, artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed how organizations prevent, monitor, and respond to FWA activity, powering a Read more…
Deep Learning Is Our Best Hope for Cybersecurity, Deep Instinct Says
Thanks to the exponential growth of malware, traditional heuristics-based detection regimes have been overwhelmed, leaving computers at risk. Machine learning approaches can help, but the bottleneck presented by the feat Read more…
Patchwork of Data Privacy Laws Sows Confusion
The European Union’s GDPR. California’s CCPA. Brazil’s LGPD. Canada's PIPEDA. Japan's APPI. Every country and state seems to have its own law governing how personal data can and cannot be used, and companies are st Read more…
Automation: A Pathway to Smarter Cybersecurity
Under regular circumstances, the cybersecurity industry operates against the backdrop of a long-standing labor gap. But, as reported recently by The Wall Street Journal, cybersecurity leaders are currently looking closel Read more…
The Future of Labor in an AI World
What will you be doing on Labor Day in 2030? How about five years from today? Will your job still be available? What skills will your employer demand? Nobody can forecast the future with total certainty, but a conservati Read more…
As AI Matures, So Too Do Risks, Survey Finds
More than half of early AI adopters said they have invested more than $20 million on AI technologies and talent during the past year as they seek to harness machine automation to differentiate their services and create n Read more…
Does the Human Touch + AI = The Future of Work?
Artificial intelligence has long caused fear of job loss across many sectors as companies look for ways to cut costs, support workers and become more profitable. But new research suggests that even in STEM-based sector Read more…
Security Partnership Combines ML with Net Flow Data
A framework known as network flow is emerging as a cyber-security tool based on the enterprise requirement for broader “network awareness” derived from network flow data. A recent effort with roots in university r Read more…
How Academia Could Help Close the Technology Skills Gap
Academia is attractive for a lot of reasons, but it’s a field where it can be extremely challenging to forge a career. That helps to explain why over the last 10 years, ~60% of new physics PhDs end up taking jobs in ar Read more…