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Rootkits: Expensive to build, cheap to rent

Tech Republic Security

Positive Technology analysts found ready-made malware for any budget as well as the option to have a custom-build rootkit on Dark Web forums.

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Dulling the impact of AI-fueled cyber threats with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Consider 76 percent of IT leaders believe that generative AI (GenAI) will significantly impact their organizations, with 76 percent increasing their budgets to pursue AI. IT leaders are placing faith in AI. But when it comes to cybersecurity, AI has become a double-edged sword.

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AI and cybersecurity: A double-edged sword

CIO Business Intelligence

investigation budget and achieve full detection within a 5% budget in certain cases. It can even create custom malware that can adapt and evolve to evade detection. These AI-driven insider threat behavioral analytics systems have been shown to detect 60% of malicious insiders under a 0.1%

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IT downtime cuts enterprise profit by 9%, says study

CIO Business Intelligence

And while ransomware accounts for a relatively small proportion of that total, enterprises should really be budgeting more for it. The large enterprises surveyed also spent an average of $19 million on ransomware and data extortion payouts — although they only budgeted $13.4 Human errors were also found to take the longest to fix.

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Enterprise IT in 2014 – Under-the-Radar Challenges with WAN Bandwidth, BYOD, and XP Security

CTOvision

Over the last year, IT budgets saw modest growth as departments embraced mobile, cloud and virtualization in record numbers. Even where budget is available, some regions do not yet have the capacity to expand the WAN to meet the demand. – bg.

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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

A second, more pernicious risk is the fact that ChatGPT can write malware. Sometimes the malware has errors, but with simple repetition the hacker can generate multiple working versions of the code. Such polymorphic malware is particularly hard to detect, because it may be different from one attack to another.

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From the trenches: A CISO’s guide to threat intelligence

Network World

No CISO has ever told me that they had more than enough resources (people, time, or budget). Here’s what I look for: Security analysts: These are the data detectives, sifting through threat feeds, malware samples, and dark web chatter to identify patterns and emerging threats. Building a strong team requires a diverse skill set.

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