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Understanding 2024 cyber attack trends

Mandiant has released the M-Trends 2025 report, which outlines global cyber attack trends based on their own incident response engagements from 2024. Key trends and insights In 2024, Mandiant handled more incidents in the financial sector than in any other industry: 17.4%. Other popular targets? Companies in business and professional services (11.1%), high tech (10.6%), government (9.5%), and healthcare (9.3%). Exploitation of a vulnerability is still the most common initial infection vector (33%), followed by … More → The post Understanding 2024 cyber attack trends appeared first on Help Net Security.
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AuditBoard RegComply helps organizations with ongoing regulatory updates

AuditBoard announced RegComply, a new solution for regulatory compliance management to help organizations stay on top of changing regulations and manage their compliance programs with integrated risk insights. The new solution includes new AI capabilities from AuditBoard and is powered by regulatory change and obligations data from CUBE RegPlatform, a leading global regulatory intelligence solution provider. Today, manually tracking changes across multiple sources, from multiple regulatory bodies, while also assessing the impact of these changes on … More → The post AuditBoard RegComply helps organizations with ongoing regulatory updates appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Inside Walmart’s all-in playbook for generative AI, agentic tools

The company is “throwing the doors wide open” and wants associates to use the technology every day, executives told CIO Dive. 
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Swimlane CAR solution automates compliance control mapping

Swimlane announced Compliance Audit Readiness (CAR) Solution, designed to streamline compliance management and accelerate audit readiness. Powered by the Swimlane Turbine AI Automation Platform and built on the Secure Controls Framework, CAR automates compliance control mapping, streamlines audit evidence gathering and provides real-time risk-based reporting. Compliance audits are complex, time-consuming, and resource-intensive for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) teams. 54% of organizations spend more than five hours each week on manual audit-related tasks. Gathering evidence … More → The post Swimlane CAR solution automates compliance control mapping appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Metomic AI Data Protection prevents data leakage in AI tools

Metomic launched AI Data Protection Solution, an offering designed to prevent sensitive business data from being inadvertently exposed through AI tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Glean, Notion AI, Box AI, and others. As enterprises accelerate AI integration, this solution empowers organizations to harness AI’s benefits while maintaining data security and compliance. With AI and machine learning integration ranking as the top priority for CIOs in 2025, the imperative to secure sensitive business data has never … More → The post Metomic AI Data Protection prevents data leakage in AI tools appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Exposed and unaware: The state of enterprise security in 2025

The Edgescan 2025 Vulnerability Statistics Report offers a data-rich snapshot of the global cybersecurity landscape, drawing from thousands of assessments and penetration tests conducted in 2024. Now in its 10th year, the report analyzes full-stack security trends across industries, highlighting common vulnerabilities, patching delays, and risk hotspots. With insights into exploit availability, attack surface exposure, and remediation timelines, it equips organizations with the data they need to make smarter, risk-based decisions. The report highlights a … More → The post Exposed and unaware: The state of enterprise security in 2025 appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Binarly Transparency Platform 3.0 prioritizes vulnerabilities based on active exploitation

Binarly announced the rollout of its flagship Binarly Transparency Platform 3.0, a major update that fuses live threat‑intelligence signals with an exploitation‑aware scoring system to help enterprise teams prioritize the mitigation of vulnerabilities with the most immediate risk. The release introduces Threat Intelligence Monitoring, a service that tracks public proof‑of‑concept code, ransomware activity, and private telemetry to flag actively exploited flaws the moment they surface. These signals feed a new Exploitation Maturity Score (EMS) that … More → The post Binarly Transparency Platform 3.0 prioritizes vulnerabilities based on active exploitation appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Coaching AI agents: Why your next security hire might be an algorithm

Security teams are drowning in alerts. The sheer volume of threats, suspicious activity, and false positives makes it nearly impossible for analysts to investigate everything effectively. Enter agentic AI, capable of completing hundreds of tasks simultaneously without tiring. Organizations increasingly turn to agentic AI to handle repetitive security tasks, such as alert triage, allowing human analysts to focus on the most critical threats. But while agentic AI may be fast, it isn’t infallible. It doesn’t … More → The post Coaching AI agents: Why your next security hire might be an algorithm appeared first on Help Net Security.
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A new era of cyber threats is approaching for the energy sector

Cyber threats targeting the energy sector come in many forms, including state-sponsored actors seeking to disrupt national infrastructure, cybercriminals motivated by profit, and insiders intentionally causing damage. The consequences of a successful attack can be severe, potentially disrupting energy supplies and causing economic and social damage, according to Darktrace’s research focused on the UK and US energy sector over a three-year period (November 2021 – Dec 2024). Email as the initial attack vector As seen … More → The post A new era of cyber threats is approaching for the energy sector appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Review: Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity is a practical guide to how AI and machine learning are changing the way we defend digital systems. The book aims to explain how AI can help solve real cybersecurity problems. It does that well, but it’s not for everyone. About the authors Bojan Kolosnjaji is a principal engineer and researcher specializing in AI-driven anomaly detection and large-scale cybersecurity analytics, with a PhD from TUM. Xiao Huang is a Stanford visiting … More → The post Review: Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity appeared first on Help Net Security.
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