New Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study projects a 124% ROI from unifying with Microsoft Security

Across many industries, organizations are unifying security and putting AI agents to work. Security teams are utilizing agents that reason, decide, and act on their behalf, under their governance. At Microsoft, we see this firsthand—more than 80% of the Fortune 500 are already using AI.1 The...

Airlock Digital Announces Independent TEI Study Quantifying Measurable ROI & Security Impact

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Ransomware attacks and how victims respond

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I count myself fortunate that I have never been on the receiving end of a ransomware attack. My experiences have been from research and response, never as a victim. It's a tough scenario: One day you are working or minding your own...

Microsoft Purview delivered 30% reduction in data breach likelihood

In today’s digital-first world, data is both an asset and a liability. As organizations scale their use of cloud platforms, AI, and remote collaboration tools, the complexity of managing data security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance grows exponentially. For organizations, the challenge i...

Microsoft Entra Suite delivers 131% ROI by unifying identity and network access

In today’s AI-first world, identity and network access are the first touchpoints for enforcing least privilege and protecting against sophisticated, identity-based attacks—but for many organizations, that defense is fragmented. Siloed teams and disconnected tools create security gaps, operational...

The Economic Impact of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

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The Rising Cost of Vulnerable APIs and Bot Attacks – A $186 Billion Wake-Up Call for Businesses

How much do bot attacks and API insecurity cost organizations? To answer these questions, Imperva engaged the Marsh McLennan Cyber Risk Intelligence Center to analyze incident data related to vulnerable APIs and bot attacks. Imperva’s latest report, “The Economic Impact of API and Bot Attacks,"...

Friday Squid Blogging: Economic Fallout from Falklands Halting Squid Fishing

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Providing Security Updates to Automobile Software

Auto manufacturers are just starting to realize the problems of supporting the software in older models: Today’s phones are able to receive updates six to eight years after their purchase date. Samsung and Google provide Android OS updates and security updates for seven years. Apple halts servici...

Exposed and vulnerable: Recent attacks highlight critical need to protect internet-exposed OT devices

Since late 2023, Microsoft has observed an increase in reports of attacks focusing on internet-exposed, poorly secured operational technology OT devices. Internet-exposed OT equipment in water and wastewater systems WWS in the US were targeted in multiple attacks over the past months by different...

Microsoft and Security Incentives

Former senior White House cyber policy director A. J. Grotto talks about the economic incentives for companies to improve their security--in particular, Microsoft: Grotto told us Microsoft had to be "dragged kicking and screaming" to provide logging capabilities to the government by default, and...

ICS and OT threat predictions for 2024

We do not expect rapid changes in the industrial cyberthreat landscape in 2024. Most of the below-described trends have been observed before, many for some years. However, some of them have reached a critical mass of creeping changes, which could lead to a qualitative shift in the threat landscap...

AI Risks

There is no shortage of researchers and industry titans willing to warn us about the potential destructive power of artificial intelligence. Reading the headlines, one would hope that the rapid gains in AI technology have also brought forth a unifying realization of the risks--and the steps we ne...

Microsoft Inspire: Partner resources to prepare for the future of security with AI

Cybersecurity is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. With an ever-changing threat landscape and siloed data across multiple security point solutions, defenders have limited visibility. It’s difficult to stay current and find cybersecurity professionals amid the global talent shortage...

amountAvailableForStaking() not fully utilized with compoundedAvaxNodeOpAmt easily forfeited

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Spreads can be minted with a deactivated oracle

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact When deactivateOracle is called for an oracle in OracleRegistry it is still available for option spreads minting. This way a user can continue to mint new options within spreads that rely on an oracle that was deactivated. As economic output of spreads i...

Make the Business Case for a Cloud Security Platform

Discover the projected ROI for our cloud security platform with the Forrester Total Economic Impact study and help win over the boardroom while enhancing your security posture...

Infographic: What is the economic impact of a data security platform?

Data security is important regardless of how your organization approaches cybersecurity. Whether it’s a protection-first approach, detection and remediation, or somewhere in between, data security enables organizations to inform on risk posture, protect against unauthorized data access and may...

Forrester report suggests Imperva Data Protection delivers high value and rapid ROI

In mid-2021, Imperva commissioned Forrester Research to interview five current Imperva enterprise customers - two in the financial services industry and three in the insurance industry. The goal of the exercise was to gain insight into the economic impact of deploying the Imperva data security...

Forrester Consulting TEI Study: Azure Security Center delivers 219 percent ROI over 3 years and a payback of less than 6 months

Azure Security Center is a critical tool to secure our multi-cloud workloads in the new world of remote work we find ourselves in today. We are excited to share that Forrester Consulting has just conducted a commissioned Total Economic Impact TEI study on behalf of Microsoft, which involved...