In 2017, an anonymous Reddit user under the pseudonym “deepfakes” posted links to pornographic videos that appeared to feature famous mainstream celebrities. The videos were fake. And the user created them using off-the-shelf artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Two months later, Reddit banned the deepfakes account and related subreddit. But the…
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Spring is (almost) here, which means it’s time for some in-house security cleaning. With the holiday shopping season — one of the most treacherous times of year for security — in the rearview, organizations should take a step back to assess what is working, drop what isn’t and invest in…
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Does your organization have a formal security awareness and training program? I’m constantly surprised at how often the answer is an awkward and uncomfortable “no.” Implicit in the awkwardness is the recognition that such a program is a critical piece of a strong security strategy. Without awareness and training, it’s…
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The practice of analyzing security data for detection and response — otherwise known as security analytics (SA) — comes in many forms and flavors. Consumed data varies from organization to organization, analytic processes span a plethora of algorithms and outputs can serve many use cases within a security team. In…
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