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New cybersecurity research from AI leaders Microsoft and OpenAI reveals how generative tech is being put to use by known threat actors, including nation-state-affiliated groups from countries including China, Iran, North Korea and Russia.
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Along with purpose-built technology to combat ransomware, Veeam Software's new Cyber Secure Program also offers up a team of experts to help organizations wield that tech to fight threat actors.
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Paul details what you need to do to prepare your business for different Copilots, because if you don't have good data governance, you'll likely have some "interesting times" ahead if you roll out the AI broadly.
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New research from Cohesity indicates many organizations are breaking "do not pay" policies and going against general guidance to pay off ransomware demands, writing off the payments as the "cost of doing business."
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Ransomware is still plaguing IT -- it's still the No. 1 cause of outages -- but dissatisfied data protection pros seeking new jobs present a new concern, a new survey-based report indicates.
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Along with "traditional" ransomware attacks, the threat actors are continually upgrading their game with new approaches, technology and techniques. Here's what organizations need to know.
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Paul Schnackenburg looks at what SFI is, how it compares with Bill Gates's Trustworthy Computing Initiative (TwC) memo from 20 years ago, what Microsoft is doing technically behind the scenes, what's missing from the SFI and why he thinks Microsoft missed the mark on what really should have been the "Secure Culture Initiative."
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New cloud research examines the interaction of advanced AI and the zero-trust cybersecurity approach.
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IT consultant and attendee Paul Schnackenburg digests many sessions to explain changes coming in the Defender suite of security products, Windows Server v.Next and SharePoint.
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Rubrik, a specialist in Zero Trust data security, this week launched Ruby, a generative AI companion designed to enhance cyber detection, recovery and resilience.
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Druva, provider of a data resiliency SaaS platform, this week expanded its multi-cloud protection capabilities for the Azure cloud after previously unveiling an AI-powered copilot called "Dru" to help with backups.
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Veeam, specializing in data protection and ransomware recovery, announced updates to two major offerings during recent tech events, along with a partnership with Sophos.
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Veeam tapped data from several research projects to publish a brief on hybrid cloud computing and cyber resiliency, finding that clouds are just as susceptible to ransomware attacks, maybe even more so.
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Paul discusses the new and established offerings and how they can work together to help developers and infrastructure folks deploy and manage applications at scale.
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Major industry players including cloud giants Google and AWS publicized an ongoing series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that are increasing in size and frequency.
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Research firm Gartner's new report on the software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) space sees the tech moving into security offerings and receiving a big generative AI boost in the next few years.
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Security specialists Rubrik and Veeam Software this week announced integrations with Microsoft 365 Backup, which was just announced at Microsoft's Inspire event.
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A new survey-based report sheds light on how "hackers" use generative AI, though in this case those hackers are bug hunters wearing white, not black, hats.
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Microsoft, which has become an AI leader thanks to its financial partnership with OpenAI, is using new advanced generative AI technology in a joint collaboration with Zero Trust cybersecurity specialist Rubrik.
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Paul Schnackenburg talks identity in general, how it fits in with the other security tools and services he has covered and the different parts of Microsoft Entra, along with how they solve various identity-related problems.
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Zerto, a cloud data management and protection specialist, today announced Zerto 10, the latest version of its namesake cybersecurity solution with a variety of capabilities.
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The new functionality is designed to help organizations become more proactive in the fight against ongoing cyberattacks by using time series data and metadata.
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With more and more industry figures warning about the dangers of runaway advanced AI constructs, the White House is getting in on the action.
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Double extortion ransomware is a type of cyberattack in which threat actors exfiltrate a victim's sensitive data in addition to encrypting it, giving the criminal additional leverage to collect ransom payments.
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Like most things these days, the security-focused RSA Conference 2023 prominently featured AI, the topic of many sessions and announcements and the specialty of multiple award winners.