Due to multiple reasons, the Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force threw cold water on the need for a ransomware payment ban in a report released Wednesday.

Attackers are adept at identifying and exploiting the most cost-effective methods of compromise, highlighting the critical need for organizations to implement asset identification and understand assets’ security posture in relation to the network.

Numerous pieces of data can be collected as a part of fingerprinting, including Time zone, Language settings, IP address, Cookie settings, Screen resolution, Browser privacy, and User-agent string.

Armed forces have always utilized war-gaming exercises for battlefield training to prepare for times of conflict. With today’s digital transformation, the same concept is being applied in the form of cybersecurity exercises.

AI algorithms and machine learning can cull through immense volumes of data efficiently and in a relatively short amount of time. This can help defenders sift through a never-ending supply of alerts and identify those that pose a possible threat.

Shadow IT – the use of software, hardware, systems, and services that haven’t been approved by an organization’s IT/IT Sec departments – has been a problem for the last couple of decades, and a difficult area for IT leaders to manage effectively.

Amid the constant drumbeat of successful cyberattacks, some fake data breaches have also cropped up to make sensational headlines. Unfortunately, even fake data breaches can have real repercussions.

Unlike previous types of software, AI models become more intelligent over time. This constant change means new risks can emerge at any moment, making them incredibly difficult to anticipate. A one-and-done approach to red teaming simply won’t work.

Quantum computing has the potential to break cryptosystems that are the foundations of the technology protecting the privacy of data and information created and shared every day.

Zero tolerance of failure by infosec professionals is unrealistic, and makes it harder for cybersecurity folk to do the essential part of their job: recovering fast from inevitable attacks, according to Gartner analysts Chris Mixter and Dennis Xu.