Organizations invest heavily in cybersecurity tools, firewalls, and endpoint detection systems. Yet many still encounter serious difficulties when an actual incident occurs. Incident response requires more than a plan on paper. It demands swift and effective execution under pressure. Most small and medium-sized enterprises hold only a basic notion of their actions in a crisis. Someone would contact the IT team and systems would be examined. In practice, a real incident arises amid uncertain
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A recent report by Salt Security highlights a critical warning: without proper Application Programming Interface (API) discovery, governance, and security, the very technology meant to drive smarter customer engagement could open the door to cyber-attacks or data leakage. The research also reveals an increasing trust gap between businesses that deploy agentic AI for external communications and consumers who are wary of sharing personal information due to security concerns.
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Bridewell, a UK-based cybersecurity services company, has released its latest CTI Annual Report, a comprehensive deep dive into ransomware trends. It highlighted a significant shift in attack strategies, payment dynamics, and threat actor behaviors, revealing that data theft and extortion have overtaken traditional encryption-only ransomware as the most successful approach for attackers. While encryption-based attacks tend to result in larger individual ransom payments, often due to the urgenc