How to write a cyberthreat report executives can really use

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How to write a cyberthreat report executives can really use

As savvy CISOs know, a well-crafted and well-timed cyberthreat report can help executives grasp what’s happening in the world of cybersecurity—and it just might replace those late-night phonecalls.

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21 best free security tools

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DevSecOps initiatives are fraught with peril and require careful consideration of culture, learning, process and business needs. Here's how companies tend to fail in those areas.

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7 new social engineering tactics threat actors are using now

Old tactics in new packages lead the list of current social engineering attacks. Experts provide real-world examples.

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How data poisoning attacks corrupt machine learning models

Data poisoning is a type of attack that involves tampering with and polluting a machine learning model's training data, impacting the model's ability to produce accurate predictions.

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Zero days explained: How unknown vulnerabilities become gateways for attackers

A zero day is a security flaw that has not yet been patched by the vendor and can be exploited. The name evokes a scenario where an attacker has gotten the jump on a software vendor, implementing attacks that exploit the flaw before...

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4 steps to better security hygiene and posture management

Increasing scale and complexity have made keeping up with security hygiene and posture management cumbersome and error prone, leaving organizations exposed. Here's what leading CISOs are doing to close the gap.

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