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RPA: How to Securely Start and Scale in the Automation-First Era

Issued by: CyberArk Blog

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is one of the key technologies fueling digital transformation. Ranked by industry experts as one of the fastest-growing enterprise software categories, RPA is helping businesses and their employees achieve the efficiency, accuracy and speed needed to compete and thrive. By approaching RPA automation projects and cybersecurity hand in hand, organizations can…

Malware & Threats

Europol Report Highlights Pandemic’s Effect on Cybercrime

Issued by: Security Week

Organized crime is not limited to cybercrime, but cybercrime has become a major part of organized criminal activity. Europol sees this increasing – business transformation, the increasingly digital society, and the growth of remote working all provide new vulnerabilities and more opportunities for exploitation. “Critical infrastructures will continue to be targeted by cybercriminals in the…

Vulnerabilities

Key cybersecurity industry challenges in the next five years

Issued by: Help Net Security

Pete Herzog, Managing Director at ISECOM, is so sure that artificial intelligence could be the biggest security problem to solve and the biggest answer to the privacy problem that he cofounded a company, Urvin.ai, with an eclectic group of coders and scientists to explore this. AI (and machine learning with it) is like a naive…

Network Security

What Is Threat Management? Common Challenges and Best Practices

Issued by: Security Intelligence

Threat management, or cyber threat management, is a framework often used by cybersecurity professionals to manage the life cycle of a threat in an effort to identify and respond to it with speed and accuracy. The foundation of threat management is a seamless integration between people, process and technology to stay ahead of threats.

Network Security

What a security career will look like in five years

Issued by: CSO

When it comes to protecting the growing infrastructure at Polaris Alpha, CISO Eric Schlesinger believes in a people-and-processes approach over a tools-based approach. But five years from now, those priorities will likely shift. “I believe that machine learning and AI are the future to security operations. An ‘artificial analyst’ can replace one or two full-time…

Malware & Threats

How can attackers abuse artificial intelligence?

Issued by: Help Net Security

But a new report published by the SHERPA consortium – an EU project studying the impact of AI on ethics and human rights – finds that while human attackers have access to machine learning techniques, they currently focus most of their efforts on manipulating existing AI systems for malicious purposes instead of creating new attacks…

Network Security

Are humans ready for AI to take control of digital security?

Issued by: Help Net Security

Just over a quarter (26%) of people in EMEA would prefer their cybersecurity to be managed by AI rather than a human, an online study conducted by Palo Alto Networks and YouGov alongside Dr Jessica Barker reveals. Italy has the most confidence in relying on AI (38%), while in the UK only 21 percent of…

Vulnerabilities

60% of firms believe a major security event will hit in the next few years

Issued by: Help Net Security

Only 30 percent of 1,250 senior executives, management and security practitioners in the U.S., U.K. and Canada are confident their business will avoid a major security event in the coming two years and 60 percent believe an attack will hit in the next few years, according to eSentire. In terms of cyberattack preparedness in global…

Network Security

Corporate pre-crime: The ethics of using AI to identify future insider threats

Issued by: CSO

To protect corporate networks against malware, data exfiltration and other threats, security departments have systems in place to monitor email traffic, URLs and employee behaviors. With artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, this data can also be used to make predictions. Is an employee planning to steal data? To defraud the company? To engage in…

Malware & Threats

WatchGuard launches AI-based antivirus to help defend against zero day malware

Issued by: Help Net Security

WatchGuard announced version 12.2 of its Fireware operating system for its Firebox Unified Security Platform appliances. Key to the update is IntelligentAV, a new antivirus scan service that uses an artificial intelligence (AI) engine to predict, detect and block evolving zero day malware. IntelligentAV joins Threat Detection and Response (TDR), Gateway AntiVirus, and APT Blocker…