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Derek Hanson, Yubico's VP of standards and alliances and an industry expert on passkeys, discusses why device-bound-to-shareable passkeys are critical. Derek Hanson, an expert on hardware-bound and syncable passkeys, works very closely with the FIDO Alliance and recently spoke on the topic of passkeys at the 2023 RSA Conference.

The report found that consumers and businesses alike are keeping fraud and security top of mind amid uncertain economic conditions with nearly two-thirds of people surveyed reporting they're very or somewhat concerned with online security. Just over half of businesses report a high level of concern about fraud risk with leading areas including transaction fraud, cybercrime and identity theft.

In this Help Net Security video, Chris Westphal, Head of Product Marketing at Ordr, discusses how healthcare organizations should measure their device security success and where they should be...

Microsoft announced on Wednesday it would provide all customers free access to cloud security logs - a service usually reserved for premium clients - within weeks of a reveal that government officials' cloud-based emails were targets of an alleged China-based hack. Microsoft wrote on its blog it was expanding the service's access beginning in September 2023 to "Increase the secure-by-default baseline" of its cloud platforms "In response to the increasing frequency and evolution of nation-state cyber threats."

Manual alert triage costs organizations $3.3 billion annually in the US alone, and security analysts are tasked with the massive undertaking of detecting, investigating and responding to threats as quickly and efficiently as possible while being challenged by an expanding attack surface and thousands of daily security alerts. On average, SOC teams receive 4,484 alerts daily and spend nearly three hours a day manually triaging alerts.

"The shift to the cloud has been a long journey and attackers are taking advantage now that employees regularly log into multiple cloud services, often from outside the traditional enterprise network perimeter," said Ariel Tseitlin, Partner at Scale Venture Partners and an avid investor in the cloud and security industries. As AI/ML models become more commonplace within organizations, 49% of security leaders worried about threat actors poisoning those AI/ML models to bypass security protections.

Gandalf is an interactive LLM game where the goal is to get the chatbot to reveal its password. There are eight levels of difficulty, as the chatbot gets increasingly restrictive instructions as to how it will answer.

This live virtual event brings together industry leaders, experts, and professionals to explore the future of network security. With an alarming 96 percent of organizations falling victim to cyberattacks in 2021, INTERSECT '23 offers invaluable insights into leveraging cutting-edge network security platforms to fortify defenses against evasive zero-day threats.

Discover how HealthEdge deals with security and data privacy in the face of rapid expansion. "Healthcare is beset by ransomware gangs and this led to an increase in confirmed data breaches in 2022," said Suzanne Widup, a researcher for the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report.

Specops research shows that in an analysis of 800 million breached passwords, 83% of compromised passwords satisfy the password length and complexity requirements of regulatory password standards. Data from a LastPass survey shows 83% of businesses reported having to prove to their insurance provider that they have multi-factor authentication or password management in order to qualify for coverage or receive a lower premium rate.