CISOs must speak business to earn executive trust
In this Help Net Security interview, Pritesh Parekh, VP, CISO at PagerDuty talks about how CISOs can change perceptions of their role, build influence across…
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Review: Resilient Cybersecurity – Help Net Security
Resilient Cybersecurity touches on nearly every major function of enterprise cybersecurity, from threat detection and identity management to vendor risk and regulatory compliance. About the…
Breaking down silos in cybersecurity
All organizations erect silos – silos between groups and departments, across functions and among technologies. Silos represent differences in practices, culture and operations. Their presence…
UNIDIR Intrusion Path: New framework to analyze ICT environment activities
Malicious activity in the ICT environment is growing. However, a non-technical audience often struggle to understand these threats, either because technical explanations are too complex…
Law enforcement takes down proxy botnets used by criminals
US and Dutch law enforcement, with the help of Lumen researchers, have disrupted 5socks and Anyproxy, two proxy-for-rent services that were used by criminals for…
Hunted Labs Entercept combats software supply chain attacks
Hunted Labs announced Entercept, an AI-powered source code security platform that gives enterprises instant visibility into suspicious behavior from the people and code in their…
Compromised SAP NetWeaver instances are ushering in opportunistic threat actors
A second wave of attacks against the hundreds of SAP NetWeaver platforms compromised via CVE-2025-31324 is underway. “[The] attacks [are] staged by follow-on, opportunistic threat…
Bluetooth 6.1 released, enhances privacy and power efficiency
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has released Bluetooth 6.1, and one of the most important new features is an update to how devices manage privacy…
Why security teams cannot rely solely on AI guardrails
In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Peter Garraghan, CEO of Mindgard, discusses their research around vulnerabilities in the guardrails used to protect large AI…
How to give better cybersecurity presentations (without sounding like a robot)
Most people think great presenters are born with natural talent. Luka Krejci, a presentation expert, disagrees. “They are called presentation skills. Skills, not talent,” he…
SPIRE: Toolchain of APIs for establishing trust between software systems
SPIRE is a graduated project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It’s a production-ready implementation of the SPIFFE APIs that handles node and workload…
Despite drop in cyber claims, BEC keeps going strong
Ransomware claims stabilized in 2024 despite remaining the most costly and disruptive type of cyberattack, according to Coalition. 60% of 2024 claims originated from BEC…