Category: AI in news
While cloud allows us to offload many responsibilities to third party providers, risk is not one of them. What’s more, is that the rising use of cloud, shared code libraries and other third party resources reduces the visibility and control businesses have over their apps and data – making them even more vulnerable. Businesses today…
Read MoreWe launched the CISO-to-CISO section of F5 Labs in January 2017, with a welcome message from then F5 CISO, Mike Convertino, talking about how we want to encourage security leaders to share and openly discuss ideas on how they protect their organizations. It’s all about security leaders sharing advice for other security leaders. Well, three…
Read MoreWeb Application Security Our biggest research story of the year was our 2019 Application Protection Series, which focused on looking at an entire year of application-related breaches as well as a year of global web attack traffic. In that story, we noted how PHP vulnerabilities comprise 81% of the attack traffic, much of it…
Read MoreFrom tech giants and gamers to politicians and retailers, nobody is safe from today’s mutating threat landscape. 2019 was another frenzied maelstrom of cyberattacks, mitigations, pre-emptions and preventions, with the old (phishing and DDoS et al) rubbing havoc-wreaking shoulders with the new (new vistas in cyberwars, automation and AI). As ever, continuous pressure also begets…
Read MoreMy Apple News app recently served up some targeted marketing that really hit home. There before me was the opportunity to purchase a limited-edition 11 Herbs & Spices Firelog from KFC and Envirolog, sold through Walmart. In addition to the advertising and sales mechanisms that brought me to this point, there are also all of…
Read MoreLove is purportedly in the air again, but is it being harnessed and channelled in the right direction? This Valentine’s Day, are you doing all you can to lavish protective TLC on your apps? Do you have the right strategies and solutions in place to secure a mutually rewarding, long-term relationship with your apps and,…
Read MoreIn this list, we don’t see any of the significant factored software types, so there are no weights to add here. Calculating the Likelihood of Exploitation of a Vulnerability Now that we have all our factors and weights, we can do some simple math in a spreadsheet. Factor Weight Base -6.18 Web related 0.06 Reference…
Read MoreWhen it comes to high-value assets, few industries can come close to financial services. It’s not just the obvious fact that banks are giant warehouses of money—banks represent critical pieces of infrastructure that entire economies rely upon. Some of today’s largest financial institutions have more app developers than bankers. The way these companies interact with…
Read MoreMobile World Congress: cancelled due to Coronavirus. IBM and others pulled out of the RSA Conference for the same reason. Supply chains are in jeopardy, since so much technology is manufactured in China. It seems even we in the tech world can’t avoid getting pulled into the Coronavirus gravity well. While this pandemic isn’t hitting…
Read MoreI struggled to assimilate to civilian life after I returned home from serving three military deployments. I had plenty of experience, but I didn’t know how to explain my qualifications in terms an employer would understand. After all, how do you tell a potential employer that your skills hunting down IEDs in Afghanistan make you…
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