EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Over 90 percent of organizations consider threat hunting a challenge. More specifically, seventy-one percent say that both prioritizing alerts to investigate and gathering enough data to evaluate a signal’s maliciousness can be quite difficult. Threat hunting is necessary simply because no cyber security protections are always 100% effective. An active defense is needed, […]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Cyber security experts have recently uncovered a sophisticated cyber attack campaign targeting U.S-based organizations that are involved in artificial intelligence (AI) projects. Targets have included organizations in academia, private industry and government service. Known as UNK_SweetSpecter, this campaign utilizes the SugarGh0st remote access trojan (RAT) to infiltrate networks. In the past, SugarGh0st RAT […]

By Antoinette Hodes, a Check Point Global Solutions Architect and Evangelist with the Check Point Office of the CTO. Cyber security professionals commonly throw around industry-specific acronyms in a bid to simplify communication and to save time. But linguistic shortcuts have their disadvantages, especially when it comes to communicating across teams… In the way that […]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Last week, over 40,000 business and cyber security leaders converged at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to attend the RSA Conference, one of the leading annual cyber security conferences and expositions worldwide, now in its 33rd year. Across four days, presenters, exhibitors and attendees discussed a wide spectrum of topics, including groundbreaking […]

By Ana Paula Assis, Chairman, Europe, Middle East and Africa, IBM. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: From the shop floor to the boardroom, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force in the business landscape, granting organizations the power to revolutionize processes and ramp up productivity. The scale and scope of this shift is fundamentally changing the […]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Eighty-seven percent of cyber security professionals recognize the potential inherent in leveraging AI for security purposes. The growing volume and sophistication of cyber attacks point to the critical need for new and innovative ways to protect businesses from cyber skullduggery. However, despite widespread and rabid enthusiasm for generative AI, generative AI adoption in […]

Lari Luoma has over 20 years of experience working in the fields of security and networking. For the last 13 years, he has worked with Check Point Professional Services as a security consultant, helping customers worldwide implement the best-in-class cyber security. He is a subject matter expert in hyper-scalable security solutions. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Cyber crime […]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Artificial intelligence is the new epicenter of value creation. Employees across industries are ecstatic about deploying easily accessible generative AI tools to elevate the quality of their output and to improve efficiency. According to the latest research, 60% of employees use generative AI tools to augment their efforts. Roughly 42% of organizations say […]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Cyber criminals are weaponizing advanced tactics, including intricate social engineering campaigns, to carry out malicious activities. Last year, social engineering attempts rose by 464%. Often a result of social engineering attempts, ransomware attacks have reportedly increased by 90%. Amidst this unsettling attack landscape, it can be difficult and stressful to secure data and […]

By Deryck Mitchelson, Field CISO EMEA, Check Point. This article was originally published via the World Economic Forum and reprinted with permission. Cyber resilience is more than just a buzzword in the security industry; it is an essential approach to safeguarding digital assets in an era where cyber threats are not a matter of “if” […]

Gary Landau has been leading IT and information security teams for over 25 years as part of startups as well as large global organizations. He is currently a Field CISO with Unisys Security Services, where he supports companies in many different industries. His mantra is “keep making it better” and he is passionate about continuously […]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Remember the infamous 2021 SolarWinds supply chain attack? Cyber criminals were able to coordinate the attack because an intern rendered the password ‘solarwinds123’ publicly accessible via a GitHub repository, in 2018. While this led to an extreme business compromise situation, SolarWinds is not the only organization that’s ever struggled with password management… World […]