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We are at an inflection point in the US Congress. For decades technology companies have been given free rein to advance and innovate without concern for the negative impact of what they produce. That honeymoon seems to be over, but their lobbying power has kept the weight of regulation relatively far from them.
Last week, the House Financial Services Committee advanced the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, also known as the FIT Act, to the House floor for debate and approval.
The IT skills shortage has become one of the biggest challenges for companies in recent years.…… Membership Required You mustmore...
Each year, Mental Health Awareness Week offers organisations of all shapes and sizes an opportunity to reflect on the mental health support within their organisation, and do their best to improve upon it.
Read more...APIs are often overlooked when it comes to securing a company's landscape. We sat down with Andy Grolnick, CEO at Graylog,to discuss the rapidly growing market of API security.
The cybersecurity industry is just absolute chaos, and rightly so. This is the industry charged with plugging dikes during the Class-5 hurricane that the internet seems to be today. Nowhere is that chaos more evident than at RSAC just from a marketing perspective. Everyone has “ground-breaking”, “industry-leading”, and “first ever” product offerings and this year was no different. But if you can look past the Macho-man impersonations, Formula One cars, and the mesmerizing miasma of the website and show floor, you can see an order forming in the chaos. Change is coming.
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RSA CEO Rohit Ghai, said we have missed a step in AI development. “We’ve seen it first as a co-pilot alongside of a human pilot and then see it taking over flying the plane.” He said the first step is making it an advanced cockpit making it easier for less trained and experienced people to do the work. He pointed out that cybersecurity is an industry with negative employment making it difficult to find experienced technicians to do the work.
Last year, any discussion of ethical development was met with confused stares. This year, the need for ethical AI development is taken seriously but few can see a profit in it. Cybersecurity VC Rob Ackerman (DataTribe) and Carmen Marsh, CEO of the United Cybersecurity Alliance, were open to suggestions,
“From the perspective of (companies like OpenAI), I understand the reasons to go as fast as they can to develop a true artificial intelligence, the question is, who are the people in the room guiding the process?” said Ackerman. “Once you get a diverse set of advisors working on the problem, then you do the best you can to create something ethical. But right now, we aren’t even doing the best we can.”
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The name WannaCry still invokes memories of chaos and disaster amongst anyone in the technology world. The anniversary of this widespread attack in May each year has been named Anti-Ransomware Day, to encourage organisations to back up their data and adopt necessary security protections.
Read more...From our Cyber Insurance Issue: In today’s interconnected digital world, there is no such thing as an “unconnected” business. That means for most that the extent of their online exposure will include running a calculated risk of becoming the victim of a cyber-attack because that event risk can never be zero. Or does i
CTEM is a term that was coined by Gartner (who else?) and is used to encapsulate an approach that seeks to assess and manage the exposure of the business on a continuous basis.