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🚨 American car rental giant discloses data breach impacting customers personal information. 🚘 Avis is a subsidiary of Avis Budget Group, a leading global mobility solutions provider that also owns Zipcar, the world's leading car-sharing network. Avis and Budget operate over 10,000 locations in 180 countries across North America, Europe, and Australasia. 🔎 The investigation revealed that the attacker had access to its business application from August 3 until August 6, and stole some customers' personal information, before the company evicted the malicious actor from its systems and blocked its access. #carrental #movility #cyberattack #pii #cybersecurity #cyberresilience #csconsultingbe #safeandfairtomorrow

🌏 Digital fraud attack rates continued climbing in 2023, increasing 19% year-over-year, according to the annual LexisNexis Risk Solutions Cybercrime Report. 📑 Here are key findings from "Confidence Amid Chaos”: 🔸 3rd party account takeover fraud was the leading type of fraud in 2023, contributing 29% of fraud reported by clients).   🔸 Human-initiated attacks surged by 40% in volume (1.3 billion), while automated bot attacks maintained a steady 2% YOY growth (3.6 billion).   🔸 Parts of South-East Asia are established home for remote scam centers, according to data from the Digital Identity Network. 🔸 Businesses are increasingly employing advanced bot detection capabilities to break the anonymity of cybercriminals attempting to conceal their behavior or evade traditional prevention solutions. #botdetection #digitalfraud #ITDR #digitalidentity #identitysecuriy #research #cybersecurity #csconsultingbe #safeandfairtomorrow

💼 Businesses are faced with the challenge to tackle an increasingly urgent and complex issue: "The growing realm of Machine/ Non-Human Identity". 💡 Check out interesting perspectives and insights IDPro suggests to get started!

🌏 In 2023, a surge in global tension resulted in an increase in cyber threat activity and disruptions in critical infrastructure worldwide. 🎭 Adversaries and hacktivists continue to actively target industrial organizations, with a nearly 50 percent increase in reported incidents said Dragos in its 2023 year-in-review report. 📑 Dragos' report specifically found that 70 % of all ransomware attacks targeted 638 manufacturing entities in 33 unique manufacturing subsectors. 💡 Check out precautions OT security professionals and asset owners must take to address these threats or risk to fall victim to them. #industrialcontrolsystems #ics #otsecurity #ot #research #ransomwareattack #cybersecurity #csconsultingbe #safeandfairtomorrow

🚨 SEA-TAC confirmed a cyberattack is likely behind the IT systems outage that disrupted reservation check-in systems and delayed flights over the weekend. 🛫 SEA-TAC is Seattle's primary international airport and the busiest in the Pacific Northwest region. The airport is a major hub for Alaska Airlines and Delta Air Line, servings 91 domestic, 28 international destinations and almost 51 million passengers in 2023. 🎭 An FBI spokesperson confirmed to The Seattle Times that they "are aware of the incident and working with partners to determine what happened," without disclosing any additional information. No ransomware groups or other threat actors have taken responsibility for the attack at this time. #airport #travel #cyberattack #cybersecurity #cyberresilience #csconsultingbe #safeandfairtomorrow

⏱ D-2 to the Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit 2024 edition taking place in 📍 London, U.K. on 📅 4 and 5th of March! A fantastic opportunity to hear and exchange good practices with organizations, industry experts and leading vendors. 🔥In our digital economy more and more interactions and transactions are conducted online. No surprise the digital representation of one’s identity has gained increasing focus and became essential to manage and secure. 🧐 If you are attending and feel curious about ways to strengthen your Digital Identity posture and capability, do reach out! we'd be more than happy to probe into your ambitions and share insights. ☕ Let's get in touch! #gartner #iam #digitalidentity #identitysecurity #cybersecurity #cyberresilience #csconsultingbe #safeandfairtomorrow

💻 The privileged access threat landscape is growing at light speed with cyberattacks causing some business consequences. 😱 The risk is centered on standing privileges, privileged access escalation (often used by attackers gain higher-level permissions on a system) or administrative mistakes to name a few. 🛡 Organizations must adopt a risk-based approach to delivering effective privileged identity and access management by: 🔺 Taking a user centric approach to identify PAM personas, critical user journeys; 🔺 Evaluating potential risks and business impacts based for susceptible attack vectors; 🔺 Architect PAM solution for resiliency using high-availability, disaster recovery principles; 🔺 Deploying PAM solution and implement core PAM capabilities covering intended use cases; 🔺 Iteratively evolving PAM advanced capabilities to improve cyber resilience. #pam #iam #identitysecurity #identityfirst #ITDR #cybersecurity #csconsultingbe #safeandfairtomorrow

📣 After several years of deliberation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 that builds on its long-standing, cyber-risk-reducing recommendations. 🌐 NIST released its first CSF in 2014, at the direction of a presidential executive order to help organizations, specifically critical infrastructure, mitigate cybersecurity risk. The CSF 2.0 builds on the existing five basic functions (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover) and has been updated to include a sixth, Govern. NIST's CSF 2.0 also addresses supply chain risks. 📎 NIST noted CSF 2.0 includes a reference tool cybersecurity teams can use to gather guidance data, as well as a searchable catalog, and a wide offering of references to help organizations of all sizes and sophistication levels implement the new framework. #cybernews #nistcsf #nistcybersecurityframework #publication #cybersecurity #cyberresilience #csconsultingbe #safeandfairtomorrow

🏛 The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that weakening end-to-end encryption disproportionately risks undermining human rights. 🗺 The international court's decision could potentially disrupt the European Commission's proposed plans to require email and messaging service providers to create backdoors that would allow law enforcement to easily decrypt users' messages. 🛡 "Solutions that intentionally weaken technical protection mechanisms to support law enforcement will intrinsically weaken the protection against criminals as well, which makes an easy solution impossible," Europol and ENISA said. #encryption #messaging #humanrights #privacy #protectyourdata #cybersecurity #cyberresilience #csconsultingbe #safeandfairtomorrow

🚨 Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic this year among tech and cybersecurity professionals as well as the wider public. The latest global survey from McKinsey & Company Global Publishing polled thousands of executives on the current state of AI. Here are some key takeaways: 🏡 Still early days, but 70% of respondents across regions, industries, and seniority levels are using gen AI either for work and outside of work, and 22% say they are regularly using it in their own work. 🛫 Top performers are already ahead leveraging gen AI in product and service development. They are twice as likely as others to create entirely new businesses or sources of revenue. 🎭 AI-related talent needs shift, almost 40% of respondents anticipate more than 1/5 of employees to be reskilled, although few expect to see major changes in the number of employees. 🗺 AI adoption and impact remain steady. AI adoption is still limited in scope despite its popularity, being sequestered to a small subset of business functions. #genai #artificialintelligence #breakthrough #adoption #cybersecurity #cyberresilience #csconsultingbe #safeandfairtomorrow