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As humans, we tend to trust the people around us in most situations simply by default. We usually don’t assume that the cook in a restaurant will poison our food or that the pharmacist will intentionally swap our medications, and for good reason. One of humanity’s superpowers, which allows all civilization to function, is cooperation. Being suspicious of everyone around you isn’t only exhausting, but it grinds society to a halt.

Imagine needing to stop a playoff game because viewers were actively impacting the sport, helping players catch impossible passes or score points they never should have gotten. That’s the equivalent of what happened when an Apex Legends hack during the North American finals interrupted the tournament and raised cybersecurity concerns for everyone involved. With global esports a billion-dollar industry, and competitive video gaming in general worth much more than that, this has a serious impact.

Bellwether industry analyst reports continue to indicate the future direction for security service edge (SSE) solutions. The recently released report, The Forrester Wave™: Security Service Edge Solutions, Q1 2024, includes Netskope as a Leader and ranked it highest for in the Current Offering category. Beyond the short list of leaders, here is Netskope’s take on the report’s findings and key signals that will help you assess the right vendors to fit your strategic outcomes.

In this episode of the Trust Issues podcast, Kaivan Karimi, Global Partner Strategy and OT Cybersecurity Lead – Automotive Mobility and Transportation at Microsoft, discusses with host David Puner the complexities of the automotive cybersecurity ecosystem, and they explore the challenges and considerations facing the industry.

Modern cybersecurity has reached an exceptional level, particularly with the integration of AI technology. The complexity of cyberattacks and their methodologies has also increased significantly, even surpassing human comprehension. This poses a considerable challenge for cybersecurity professionals who struggle to keep pace with the scale and complexity of AI-generated attacks.

“It’s discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.” –William Castle.

Windows administrators have cautioned that after applying the KB5035855 and KB5035857 updates, released as part of March 2024 Patch Tuesday for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2022, domain controllers running the updated versions of Windows Server may experience crashes and reboots. Affected servers are freezing and rebooting stemming from a memory leak in the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS), leading to continually increasing memory usage over time.

One of the many difficulties faced by organizations has been how to create portability, reusability, and interoperability of digital identities from the on-premises realm to increasingly web-services-enabled environments. One of the earliest and most widely adopted approaches has been SAML (or Security Assertion Markup Language) and Identity Federation.