2018 Annual Report from AI Now

The research group AI Now just published its annual report. It's an excellent summary of today's AI security challenges, as well as a policy agenda to address them. This is related, and also worth reading...

New AI tool aims to make CAPTCHA a thing of the past

By Waqas Text-based options for verification purposes on websites and other digital forums are going to be a thing of the past, that too, pretty soon. So, get ready to identify objects like cars, parks, and storefronts form CAPTCHA image grids. CAPTCHA is the abbreviation for Completely Automated...

30 Years of Trend Micro

This year marks 30 years of Trend Micro. That’s three decades of working to make the world safe for exchanging digital information in a constantly changing technology and cyber threat environment. Our founders often reference the humble beginnings of the company – starting from a garage in...

SNDBOX: AI-Powered Online Automated Malware Analysis Platform

Looking for an automated malware analysis software? Something like a 1-click solution that doesn't require any installation or configuration…a platform that can scale up your research time… technology that can provide data-driven explanations… well, your search is over! Israeli cybersecurity and...

India's Startup Story - The Future of India's Digital Economy

India's goal of reaching a $1 trillion digital economy by 20221 is said to be fuelled, in part, by the spurt in the growth of startups across the country. The number of Internet users in India is growing at an enormous rate with close to 500 million internet users today2. Indians are at the...

VB-Trend 2018 Splunk Conference

Today I attended VB-Trend 2018 Splunk conference organized by system integrator VolgaBlob. Video fragments from the event: Comparing to "Splunk Discovery Day", the conference was much smaller less than 100 people, focused on technical aspects, Information Security and informal communication. And...

Wallarm now available on Azure

Wallarm is excited to announce the native availability of Wallarm node on Azure. While in the past Wallarm customers in Azure environment had to install Wallarm nodes as dynamic modules manually into their Azure instances with NGINX, the new release allows deployment from a pre-configured image...

New AI system DARKMENTION will detect upcoming cyberattacks from dark web

By Waqas Cybersecurity is one of the primary concerns of internet users nowadays, which includes commercial and governmental organizations as well. Recent, large-scale data breaches at Gmail, Equifax, Facebook, Google+ Cathay Pacific Airways, and Yahoo, etc., have made it clear that the bigger th...

Meet the teen who won Technovation 2017

This summer Akamai hosted Girls Who Code for its fourth year in a row. Girls Who Code is a nonprofit organization that aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science. This is a spotlight article on one of the Girls Who Code participants, Aruzhan Koshkarova. Aruzhan, along wi...

Wallarm joins CNCF to promote Kubernetes security

Wallarm has recently joined the Linux Foundation and its sister organization, Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Wallarm will be contributing its AI/ML security expertise within the LF and CNCF communities to support the sustainability and adoption of open source technologies. Wallarm and its...

This Week in Security News: Toll Fraud & Small Business Struggles

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn why telecommunications fraud has turned into a multi-billion euro criminal industry. Also, understand what cybersecurity struggles sma...

Debunking AI’s Impact on the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Artificial intelligence is the latest buzzword to take hold of the cybersecurity industry. It is being touted, among other things, as the ultimate solution to the cybersecurity skills gap. But just how accurate is this belief? Will AI be the cure to all of our cybersecurity ailments, as human...

Artificial Intelligence: A Cybersecurity Tool for Good, and Sometimes Bad

Artificial intelligence is the new golden ring for cybersecurity developers, thanks to its potential to not just automate functions at scale but also to make contextual decisions based on what it learns over time. This can have big implications for security personnel—all too often, companies simp...

Pumping the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence

While the push-pull between defenders and attackers using artificial intelligence continues, there’s another security dimension to machine intelligence that should be of concern. Just as the rise of IoT devices has created an inadvertent new threat surface ripe for introducing vulnerabilities, so...

Get deeper into security at Microsoft Ignite 2018

This year at Microsoft Ignite, we will be making some exciting announcementsfrom new capabilities for identity management and information protection to powerful artificial intelligence AI innovations that can help you stay ahead of an often overwhelming surge in threats and security alerts. Join ...

A Hybrid Solution to Taming SOC Alert Overload

The moving assembly line was one of the greatest innovations of the Industrial Revolution. Prior to 1913, when Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line in his factory, cars were built by humans performing manual, mundane tasks. Imagine humans hand painting cars on the factory floor –...

Partner Perspectives: Protecting Against Fileless Malware with BluVector and Carbon Black

Josh Rosenthol is the Alliance and Integration Manager for BluVector. The Challenge of Fileless Malware “The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.” -Napoleon Bonaparte While first spoken over 200 years ago, this quote is remarkably relevant to the modus operandi of malware authors a...

Wallarm joins AI Leaders @ AI Summit

Wallarm joins a select group of AI startups and prominent technologists from Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon to participate in AI Summit on September 19–20 at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. AI Summit puts AI to work by delivering real value in the business. In just 3 years this...

Stop Impersonations of Your CEO by Checking the Writing Style

If one of your employees receives an email that looks like it’s from the CEO asking to send sensitive data or to make a wire transfer, could that employee spot it as a fake based on how it is written? He or she may be so concerned with pleasing the CEO that they may urgently respond without a...

Practical application of artificial intelligence that can transform cybersecurity

As I write this blog post, Im sitting by the beach on my computer in a sunny destination while my family plays in the water. Were on vacation, but we all have our own definition of fun. For me its writing blogs on the beachreally! The headspace is outstanding for uninterrupted thinking time and...