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OT Under Siege No More? Fortinet Report Shows Improving Landscape

SecureWorld News

One of the most striking revelations in the report : 52% of organizations now report that the CISO/CSO is responsible for OT cybersecurity, up from just 16% in 2022. Based on a global survey of more than 550 OT professionals, the findings reveal both a maturing OT security landscape and the persistent threats it continues to face.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Calls for Stamping Out Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, as Europol Tells Banks To Prep For Quantum Threat

Security Boulevard

government is urging software makers to adopt secure application-development practices that help prevent buffer overflow attacks. These are some of the recommendations the agencies offered for preventing buffer overflows in the fact sheet titled Malicious Cyber Actors Use Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities to Compromise Software.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: U.S. Gov’t Urges Adoption of Memory-Safe Languages and Warns About Iran Cyber Threat

Security Boulevard

“Memory-safe languages (MSLs) offer the most comprehensive mitigation against this pervasive and dangerous class of vulnerability,” reads the document “ Memory Safe Languages: Reducing Vulnerabilities in Modern Software Development ” published this week by the U.S. and the U.K.) involvement in the military conflict between Iran and Israel.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA’s Best Cyber Advice on Securing Cloud, OT, Apps and More

Security Boulevard

Check out best practices, recommendations and insights on protecting your cloud environments, OT systems, software development processes and more. Maintain a comprehensive asset inventory, and keep software updated and patched. SBOMs purpose is to provide granular visibility into all software components in your environment.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Apply Zero Trust to Critical Infrastructure’s OT/ICS, CSA Advises, as Five Eyes Spotlight Tech Startups’ Security

Security Boulevard

Modern systems are often interconnected via embedded wireless access, cloud and other internet-connected services, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications,” reads the 64-page white paper, which was published this week. While OT/ICS environments were historically air gapped, that’s rarely the case anymore. national security.

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Key Cybersecurity Trends for 2025. My Predictions

Jane Frankland

Software vendors, open-source software, cloud services, and hardware suppliers remain particularly vulnerable. Blindspots and Weaknesses Shadow AI Shadow IT has long exposed organisations to risks through unauthorized software and applications that bypass security protocols.

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Time to check software and security settings for Windows network vulnerabilities

CSO Magazine

Learn the must-have features in a modern network security architecture and the 7 tenets of zero trust. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] In honor of this event, I urge you to take the month of October to become more aware of your computer and network assets. To read this article in full, please click here

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