8 best practices for CISOs conducting risk reviews

The Deputy CISO blog series is where Microsoft Deputy Chief Information Security Officers CISOs share their thoughts on what is most important in their respective domains. In this series, you will get practical advice, tactics to start and stop deploying, forward-looking commentary on where the...

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders

Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned...

Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to CBP Agents Sparked a DOJ Probe

Documents say customs officers in the US Virgin Islands had friendly relationships with Epstein years after his 2008 conviction, showing how the infamous sex offender tried to cultivate allies...

AI Toys for Kids Talk About Sex, Drugs, and Chinese Propaganda

Plus: Travelers to the US may have to hand over five years of social media history, South Korean CEOs are resigning due to cyberattacks, and more...

Canadian police trialling facial recognition bodycams

A municipal police force in Canada is now using facial recognition bodycams, it was revealed this week. The police service in the prairie city of Edmonton is trialling technology from US-based Axon, which makes products for the military and law enforcement. Up to 50 officers are taking part in th...

Canadian police trialing facial recognition bodycams

A municipal police force in Canada is now using facial recognition bodycams, it was revealed this week. The police service in the prairie city of Edmonton is trialing technology from US-based Axon, which makes products for the military and law enforcement. Up to 50 officers are taking part in the...

Empower CISOs with Visibility, Agility, Compliance, and Strategic ROI

Learn how Akamai Prolexic Network Cloud Firewall allows CISOs to manage risk, resilience, and reputation by delivering visibility, agility, and proactive defense...

How CISOs Can Drive Effective AI Governance

AI's growing role in enterprise environments has heightened the urgency for Chief Information Security Officers CISOs to drive effective AI governance. When it comes to any emerging technology, governance is hard – but effective governance is even harder. The first instinct for most organizations...

SIGINT During World War II

The NSA and GCHQ have jointly published a history of World War II SIGINT: "Secret Messengers: Disseminating SIGINT in the Second World War." This is the story of the British SLUs Special Liaison Units and the American SSOs Special Security Officers...

Meet the Deputy CISOs who help shape Microsoft’s approach to cybersecurity: Part 3

Microsoft launched its Cybersecurity Governance Council in 2024, and with it, named a group of deputy chief information security officers that ensure comprehensive oversight of the company’s cybersecurity risk, defense, and compliance. These leaders work in tandem with product and engineering...

Meet the Deputy CISOs who help shape Microsoft’s approach to cybersecurity: Part 2

Microsoft launched its Cybersecurity Governance Council in 2024, and with it, named a group of deputy chief information security officers that ensure comprehensive oversight of the company’s cybersecurity risk, defense, and compliance. These leaders work in tandem with product and engineering...

Gamaredon: The Turncoat Spies Relentlessly Hacking Ukraine

For the past decade, this group of FSB hackers—including “traitor” Ukrainian intelligence officers—has used a grinding barrage of intrusion campaigns to make life hell for their former countrymen and cybersecurity defenders...

Meet the Deputy CISOs who help shape Microsoft’s approach to cybersecurity

Microsoft launched its Cybersecurity Governance Council in 2024, and with it, named a group of deputy chief information security officers that ensure comprehensive oversight of the company's cybersecurity risk, defense, and compliance. These leaders work in tandem with product and engineering...

Dutch Police Hacked, 63,000 Officers’ Details Exposed

A foreign government is believed to have hacked into the Dutch police force's systems, exposing the contact details…...

Contractor Data Breach Impacts 8k Greater Manchester Police Officers

By Deeba Ahmed Warrant card details of thousands of officers are suspected to have been stolen in this attack. Affected officers have been notified about the data breach. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Contractor Data Breach Impacts 8k Greater Manchester Police Officers...

Police Security Breach Rattles Northern Ireland’s Security Landscape

By Habiba Rashid The Police Service of Northern Ireland PSNI experienced a severe security breach, unintentionally revealing personal details of its entire workforce, including officers and civilian staff. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Police Security Breach Rattles...

Wafaray - Enhance Your Malware Detection With WAF + YARA (WAFARAY)

WAFARAY is a LAB deployment based on Debian 11.3.0 stable x64 made and cooked between two main ingredients WAF + YARA to detect malicious files e.g. webshells, virus, malware, binaries typically through web functions upload files. Purpose In essence, the main idea came to use WAF + YARA YARA...

Gain flexibility and scale with a cloud-native DLP solution

We’re living in a seismic era for data security. Chief information security officers CISOs have to contend with a digital landscape that seems to shift daily as more organizations move to remote and hybrid work, redrawing the boundaries for how data is used and shared. The cloud has enabled...

CISA Requests for Comment on Microsoft 365 Security Configuration Baselines

CISA has issued requests for comment RFCs on eight Microsoft 365 security configuration baselines as part of the Secure Cloud Business Application SCuBA project to secure federal civilian executive branch agencies’ FCEB cloud environments. The baselines: • Build on and integrate previous security...

Discover 5 lessons Microsoft has learned about compliance management

Compliance management is a complex process—one that gets increasingly more complicated the larger an organization grows. Microsoft knows this firsthand, not only because of our experience providing Security and Compliance solutions to customers but also because of the global reach and...