Sue Poremba Sue Poremba is freelance writer based in central Pennsylvania. She's been writing about cybersecurity and technology trends since 2008.
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Securing AI and ML at the Edge
Organizations are increasingly turning to AI and ML to enhance their cybersecurity operations. Having algorithms to do some of the most tedious but necessary tasks has taken a lot of stress off of overworked security teams. But as AI/ML become more ubiquitous within organizations in many other areas, the technologies ... Read More
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Improving Cyberinsurance with APIs
Having cyberinsurance should be a requirement for any organization’s security plan, especially for SMBs. In case of a data breach, cyberinsurance could be the safety net that keeps the company in business by handling the costs involved with a breach. It should also provide support for the organization in any ... Read More
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APIs Create New Security Headaches
The transition to APIs has created threat actors’ new favorite playground and security teams’ biggest headache. This is partly due to the acceleration of software development and organizations’ desire to release software faster; in this environment, it’s more likely that security assessments and reviews are bypassed in this accelerated “shift ... Read More
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Adopting Zero-Trust for API Security
Zero-trust architecture is being adopted across all assets within network infrastructure—data, cloud, applications. And now, more frequently, developers are seeing zero-trust as a useful security approach for APIs. That’s because APIs are becoming a more frequent attack target, in part because they tend to be less mature in their identity ... Read More
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Developing Best Practices for API Security
APIs are pivotal to the overall success of a digital transformation. They allow developers to work across the digital assets and across multiple systems with ease. More organizations are adopting API initiatives, and are approaching digital transformations with an API-first attitude, according to a report from Google. “Some 58% say ... Read More
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Phishing Used to Get PII, not Just Ransomware
With all of the focus on ransomware attacks, it’s easy to forget about the damage done by email phishing. Yet, new research from Vade shows that phishing has seen a meteoric rise in the first half of 2021, including a 281% increase in May and a 284% increase in June ... Read More
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Deep Fakes: The Next Big Threat
A number of mobile apps give anyone with a smartphone and a few minutes of time on their hands the ability to create and distribute a deep fake video. All it takes is a picture of, say, yourself that you’d swap with an actor in a movie or a television ... Read More
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Propaganda as a Social Engineering Tool
Sue Poremba | | Deep Fake, disinformation, fake news, Misinformation, Phishing, social engineering attacks
Remember WYSIWYG? What you see is what you get. That was a simpler time in technology; you knew what the end result would be during the development stage. There were no surprises. Technology moved on, though. Now, the mantra should be, “don’t automatically believe what you see.” Deep fakes, propaganda, ... Read More
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Reaction to Social Engineering Indicative of Cybersecurity Culture
During COVID-19, threat actors used fear of the virus and hope of a vaccine to trick unwitting victims into downloading malware or giving up their credentials. It was a master class in social engineering, one that put an organization’s security posture at risk. Social engineering attacks like phishing take advantage ... Read More
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How Offensive AI Can Disarm Cybersecurity
As more organizations adopt AI and ML as cybersecurity controls and to detect and deter attacks, cybercriminals are devising ways to use AI as the basis of attacks. “What’s known as ‘offensive AI’ will enable cybercriminals to direct targeted attacks at unprecedented speed and scale while flying under the radar ... Read More
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