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The focus on data privacy started to quickly shift beyond compliance in recent years and is expected to move even faster in the near future. Not surprisingly, the Thomson Reuters Risk & Compliance Survey Report found that 82% of respondents cited data and cybersecurity concerns as their organization’s greatest risk. However, the majority of organizations […]
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With generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) on the frontlines of information security, red teams play an essential role in identifying vulnerabilities that others can overlook. With the average cost of a data breach reaching an all-time high of $4.88 million in 2024, businesses need to know exactly where their vulnerabilities lie. Given the remarkable pace […]
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IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 highlights a ground-breaking finding: The application of AI-powered automation in prevention has saved organizations an average of $2.2 million. Enterprises have been using AI for years in detection, investigation and response. However, as attack surfaces expand, security leaders must adopt a more proactive stance. Here are three […]
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In early 2023, Google’s Bard made headlines for a pretty big mistake, which we now call an AI hallucination. During a demo, the chatbot was asked, “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year-old about?” Bard answered that JWST, which launched in December 2021, took the “very first pictures” […]
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Even if we’re not always consciously aware of it, artificial intelligence is now all around us. We’re already used to personalized recommendation systems in e-commerce, customer service chatbots powered by conversational AI and a whole lot more. In the realm of information security, we’ve already been relying on AI-powered spam filters for years to protect […]
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Since the widespread and growing use of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) in recent years, cybersecurity has been a top concern. Among the many questions, cybersecurity professionals wondered how effective these tools were in launching an attack. Cybersecurity researchers Richard Fang, Rohan Bindu, Akul Gupta and Daniel Kang recently performed a study to […]
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While mainstream generative AI models have built-in safety barriers, open-source alternatives have no such restrictions. Here’s what that means for cyber crime. There’s little doubt that open-source is the future of software. According to the 2024 State of Open Source Report, over two-thirds of businesses increased their use of open-source software in the last year. […]
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) closely observes the AI lifecycle, and for good reason. As AI proliferates, so does the discovery and exploitation of AI cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Prompt injection is one such vulnerability that specifically attacks generative AI. In Adversarial Machine Learning: A Taxonomy and Terminology of Attacks and Mitigations, NIST defines […]
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In recent months, we’ve seen government and business leaders put an increased focus on securing AI models. If generative AI is the next big platform to transform the services and functions on which society as a whole depends, ensuring that technology is trusted and secure must be businesses’ top priority. While generative AI adoption is […]
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From world events to the economy, 2023 was an unpredictable year. Cybersecurity didn’t stray far from this theme, delivering some unexpected twists. As organizations begin planning their security strategies for 2024, now is the time to look back on the year before and extrapolate what the future may hold. The year kicked off with Generative […]
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