3 ways to deter phishing attacks in 2023
Along with being commonplace, phishing attacks have become so profitable (to the
attackers) that the biggest cybercriminals have largely moved beyond individual
customers. Rather, they target enterprise employees who can be duped into
revealing information that’s much more sensitive, on a much larger scale. ...
Since phishing attacks overwhelmingly target the human element, cybersecurity
experts agree that the best defense against this is providing security awareness
training to enterprise employees. This helps in early identification of attacks
and increasing overall security hygiene. ... In-house cybersecurity training is
no longer a time- and skill-intensive process, given the prevalence of AI-based
phishing awareness platforms. Today, ML enables gamified, personalized security
training programs for each individual based on their current level of awareness,
position in the organization, and browsing behavior. Further, AI is a potent
tool in the arms of cybersecurity experts. It enhances the efficiency and
effectiveness of security policies by improving and automating routine threat
detection procedures.
How to Improve Your OAuth Developer Experience
DX is about providing the best ecosystem for developers to improve business
agility. For difficult areas such as deployment, security and incident
resolution, ensure that the options you have chosen also work well on local
workstations, in addition to meeting your business requirements. You will then
build secure and reliable software with simpler code. It is also a gradual
journey, and technical goals must be traded against business priorities. It
should be possible to articulate all DX objectives in terms of their business
value, whether this is faster web development, better data protection or fewer
incidents. This will help you to win support for technical initiatives and
implement them gradually as part of a technical roadmap. At Curity, we realize
the importance of DX to your business. We therefore continually improve our
developer resources, including guides for web, mobile and API development. The
OAuth family of specifications enables you to implement many security solutions,
and we also ensure that our advanced options can be run end-to-end on a
development computer.
Financial losses to synthetic identity-based fraud to double by 2024
Despite advances like the US government’s Electronic Consent-Based Verification
Service, or eCBSV—which allows some entities to verify whether a given
combination of social secuirty number, name and date of birth match an existing
Social Security Record—the issue remains a serious one in large part because
it’s still easy to create this type of manipulated identity, thanks in part to
the lack of incentives for financial institutions to combat them. “Today, the
positive value of a good banking relationship is roughly the same as the
negative cost of a fraudulent account (roughly $250-$400, depending on the bank
or fintech),” the report said. “When considering the downside cost of a
fraudulent banking relationship, generally the dollars are very low because
financial losses like Peer to Peer, or P2P, scams are absorbed largely by the
consumer, and nefarious activities like human and drug trafficking, terrorism,
fraudulent PPP [Paycheck Protection Program] and unemployment deposits and low
levels of money laundering do not carry a financial loss for the bank.”
Polyglot Microservices Communication Using Dapr on AKS
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Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) is a CNCF project like Kubernetes. It
is not just a framework or set of reusable libraries. It is rather a runtime
that provides capabilities to solve many common concerns like service
discovery, service-to-service communication, state management, configuration,
secrets management, and others. Dapr exposes APIs for each of these
capabilities which can be invoked from applications using HTTP or gRPC. With
this approach, Dapr’s footprint in application code is limited to an API call,
allowing Dapr to easily integrate with any language or runtime. The figure
below depicts capabilities provided by Dapr, supported infrastructure
platforms, and integration options using APIs. ... Dapr can be self-hosted as
a process running on an operating system or it can be configured to run as a
sidecar on Kubernetes. This allows all kinds of applications, whether they are
containerized or not, running on cloud or on-premise or on edge
infrastructure, deployed on physical or virtual machines, to make use of its
capabilities.
Why Your IT Organization Needs to Embrace Continuous Improvement
Maximum benefits can be realized when an organization not only employs
continuous improvement, but measures and proves results to their staff and
customers, says Chris Lepotakis, a senior associate at global cybersecurity
assessor Schellman. “This provides a greater trust in service and products
offered by an organization and fosters higher fidelity between the
organization, employees, and customers,” he explains. “Being able to show your
customers what you're doing to improve your business, and what it means to
their benefit, shows care and transparency on how the organization has
recognized and improved on weak points.” It also proves that the organization
is always looking for ways to provide continued value and trust, Lepotakis
adds. Organizations looking to develop a continuous improvement culture should
begin by creating a framework to support delivery resources. Such a framework
should include processes for identifying, assessing, and implementing changes,
as well as metrics to measure service quality, McIntire advises.
Using blockchain to grow your start-up
Public blockchain is highly secure and practically impossible to counterfeit due
to the underlying cryptography used. While companies may attempt to manipulate
private blockchain records, an independent auditor can monitor mischief in the
network. Blockchain provides the trust and security needed for multiple
organisations to connect on the shared ledger. This is because all users have
access to a copy of the whole blockchain, meaning they can see if any meddling
is going on. If there’s a hash match throughout the chain, the records are
trustworthy. Furthermore, smart contracts represent the future of transactions
and are interwoven with blockchain. Smart contracts are a piece of code that can
outline each step of a transaction, with the ability to connect multiple
blockchains and assets. When terms of the contract are met, they are
automatically initiated. For start-ups, these coded contracts can revolutionise
the way they conduct business. For example, smart contracts are perfectly suited
for supply chain management.
Digital transformation: How manufacturers align maintenance and production
IT leaders are in the best position to offer ways for solving an age-old
dilemma. For starters, a digital system alone can significantly improve
scheduling processes to maximize the time for value-adding work. Teams at the
forefront of maintenance can relate to how unplanned priorities can easily throw
them off and put valuable wrench time at risk. Moreover, the downtime between
work order execution, such as obtaining and preparing parts, provides
opportunities to make better use of waiting time. Quantifying the sources of
non-productive tasks can present ways to minimize them or, at least, present
options for more efficient multi-tasking. In addition to the digitization of
work schedules, a more digitally mature operation enables a facility to
challenge the need for maintenance in the first place. Preventive maintenance
activities conventionally require arbitrary criteria for frequencies and
routines. These habits arise from a lack of better choices rather than
purposeful measures.
Building stakeholder trust in measures of sustainable performance
Regulators increasingly feel that some ESG metrics are useful indicators of good
governance—that companies should know what their carbon footprint is and should
ensure that they have a diverse and equitable workforce. Beyond that, companies
still have a lot of wiggle room to determine what’s material, depending on the
issue, the context, the time frame, and the stakeholder. That opens the door to
subjectivity in definitions that can render reporting ambiguous and difficult
for investors and others to interpret. Even regulations, where they exist, are
usually quite broad. Their emphasis on disclosing the risks that are most
important—the most material—to their stakeholders still leaves it to companies
to decide what is material and who are their stakeholders. Many companies still
prefer a traditional, quantifiable definition of materiality that elevates
shareholders and enterprise value over a more sustainable vision that includes
all stakeholders and the company’s impact on society and the environment.
DevOps Burnout? Try Platform Engineering
If cognitive load is the root of the problem, what is the solution? For many
organizations, the key is platform engineering, designing and building
toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software
engineering organizations in the cloud native era. Platform engineers build what
is often called an internal developer platform, which covers the operational
necessities of the entire life cycle of an application. Platform engineering
tries to enable true DevOps by following a Platform as a Product approach to
strike the right balance between maintaining developer freedom and finding the
right level of abstraction. Platform teams pave paths of least resistance,
called golden paths, for developers using the platform, drive standardization by
design and connect various parts of the toolchain together to build a coherent
and improved developer experience. This enables self-service capabilities for
the organization while abstracting away the unnecessary complexity that
contributes to cognitive load. Successful platforms result in less repetitive
and manual work. They enable developers to do their jobs without having to learn
all technologies in depth.
Reimagining the new future of work: The CXO’s transformation conundrum
Reimagining work begins with understanding the work that needs to get done in
context of where an organization aims to be in the future and how that vision
aligns with the evolution of behaviors, expectations, and preferences of
customers and employees. Just because some leaders are striving for normalcy,
people can’t unsee the freedoms, conveniences, and empowerment that come with
connectedness. In fact, Salesforce research found that not only is the world
forever changed, 76% of workers do not feel prepared for working in a
digital-first world. In a separate Salesforce study, 54% of workers believe
technology will advance faster than the skills of the workforce. The only way to
bridge the gap is to assess the existing divide within the organization between
current skills, skills in development, and skills needed in the next five-to-ten
years. The future of work is now about balance and inspired by empathy outside
of the mindsets still holding onto pre-2020 ideologies.
Quote for the day:
"If your actions inspire others to
dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." --
John Quincy Adams
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