Tag: third party risk
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Gainsight Cyber-Attack Exclusive: Critical Salesforce Hit
A Gainsight cyber attack has critically hit Salesforce—here’s what happened and the immediate steps you need to protect your data and your org.
3 SOC Challenges Exclusive: Best Solutions by 2026
By 2026, AI will be attackers’ force multiplier — and Security Operations Centers must urgently tackle opaque automation, people-and-process shortfalls, and brittle third‑party dependencies. The solution is practical: insist on explainability and provenance, use human‑in‑the‑loop staged automation, and require adversarial‑resilience testing before any autonomous actions go live.
Gainsight Exclusive: Critical Hack Risks Salesforce Clients
Urgent heads-up: a critical Gainsight hack could expose Salesforce clients’ data—here’s what happened and how to protect your systems.
SEC Stunning Move Drops SolarWinds Case, Costly Fallout
The SEC’s abrupt request to dismiss its high‑profile lawsuit over the 2020 SolarWinds supply‑chain breach has left investors, technologists and policymakers wondering what it signals about enforcement, deterrence and the limits of cyber regulation. After years of litigation that promised to redefine how securities law treats cybersecurity, the surprising reversal raises urgent questions about accountability and how companies should disclose cyber risk.
Ransomware negotiator: Exclusive Guide to Best Practices
When the ransomware negotiator you trusted to defuse an attack becomes the attacker, the breach of trust is catastrophic. This guide explains what happened, why it matters, and how organizations can guard against insider betrayal.
Tata Consultancy Services Exclusive Denies Critical M&S Loss
Tata Consultancy Services says: follow the timeline — its service‑desk contract with Marks & Spencer ended before the cyber intrusion, so the two events shouldn’t be conflated. That timing could dramatically shift the legal, regulatory and reputational fallout.
Shaq’s new ride Exclusive: Costly Hijack Exposed
Shaq’s new ride reveals a surprising weak spot: when celebrities rely on niche customization shops for bespoke engineering, those small specialists — holding valuable blueprints and client data — become prime targets for savvy criminals. A breach can mean leaked designs, stolen invoices and lucrative leverage for extortion.
Cybersecurity Perception Gap: Exclusive Best Practices
When leaders count policies and vendors while security teams tally alerts and fatigue, real risk gets lost — the Bitdefender 2025 assessment warns this perception gap is widening into dangerous blind spots. Closing it with continuous monitoring, smarter tooling, and honest incident reporting shrinks dwell time and keeps small problems from turning catastrophic.
Cybersecurity Perception Gap: Stunning Critical Divide
Think your board believes the company is secure while the security team quietly braces for the next breach? The Bitdefender 2025 Cybersecurity Assessment exposes a growing cybersecurity perception gap—fueled by concealment pressures, alert fatigue and tool sprawl across cloud and remote environments—that could turn routine incidents into systemic failures unless organizations invest in zero-trust, consolidated telemetry and stronger detection and response.
Managed Identities: Must-Have Fix to Risky Static Secrets
Imagine never leaving API keys on sticky notes again. Managed identities give workloads platform‑issued, short‑lived tokens that slash exposure windows, simplify operations, and force attackers onto harder, noisier paths.
Jingle Thief Exclusive: Costly Cloud Hack Steals Millions
Imagine criminals turning your retailer’s cloud into a holiday ATM—Unit 42 warns the Jingle Thief gang uses phishing and smishing to steal credentials and exploit misconfigured cloud systems to issue and redeem millions in gift cards. Stronger identity controls, logging and vendor oversight are urgent fixes before consumers and merchants are left cleaning up the mess.