Dark Reading
1 month ago
Segmentation Works for OT If Operators Are Paying Attention
Even the best segmentation strategy will fall apart without constant oversight and disciplined operations.
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Cybersecurity strategy guides how organizations prioritize risks, protect critical systems, and prepare for incidents, recovery, and resilience.
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Security strategy is the long-term direction an organization uses to manage information-security risk and support its business objectives. It sets priorities for protecting systems and data, assigns decision-making authority, defines acceptable risk, and guides investment in controls, skills, architecture, and suppliers. A sound strategy turns risk assessments and threat intelligence into measurable security outcomes rather than a disconnected list of tools.
For practitioners, strategy determines which assets and attack paths receive priority in vulnerability management, how privacy and regulatory obligations shape data handling, and what capabilities must exist for detection, containment, recovery, and testing. It should account for dependencies such as cloud services, software providers, identities, and legacy systems, while establishing review points as technology, threats, and business operations change. Effective governance links these choices to owners, budgets, metrics, and documented exceptions.
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Krebs on Security
1 month, 1 week ago
Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’
A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hackers through an aggressive recruitment strategy that promises affiliates 90 percent of any ransom paid by victims. This post examines clues pointing to a real life identity for the administrator of The Gentlemen ransomware group.
The Hacker News
1 month, 1 week ago
Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models
University of Toronto researchers have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven computer worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight large language model to reason its way through a network, generate tailored attack strategies for each target it encounters, and replicate itself, all without human intervention and without touching a commercial AI service
Bank Info Security
1 month, 1 week ago
AI Exploit Risks Pushing Healthcare Security Shift
MultiCare Health CISO Jason Elrod on Need for Faster Cyber ResilienceEmerging AI tools can identify and exploit software vulnerabilities within minutes, forcing healthcare organizations to rethink cyber strategies. Jason Elrod, CISO of MultiCare Health System, explains why exploitability management, microsegmentation and AI-driven resilience matter more than ever.