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Cyber Insurance for Mid‑Market Organizations in Southeast Asia

Overview Businesses increasingly identify cyber risk as a core operational concern. Yet many cyber incidents still stem from basic, preventable vulnerabilities such as susceptibility to ...

Chinese-Language Phishing Kits Are Growing More Advanced

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is tracking phishing-as-a-service offerings in the rapidly expanding Chinese cybercriminal ecosystem, noting that at least a dozen of these ...

Phishing Attacks Are Using Real Hotel Reservation Info to Target Travelers

Scammers are using legitimate hotel booking details to craft targeted phishing attacks, WIRED reports. Victims are far more likely to fall for a phishing attack if a message contains real ...

Warning: Scammers are Exploiting Geopolitical Unrest

Scammers are taking advantage of the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine to exploit people’s emotions, according to researchers at ESET.

Athletes Are Increasingly Targeted by Social Engineering Attacks

Scammers are increasingly targeting athletes with advanced social engineering attacks, the Guardian reports. The Guardian cites a recent report from Ernst & Young that found that ...

AI Agent Governance Part 3 - Runtime Governance: The Hidden Performance Cost of Agentic AI

At the World Economic Forum cyber meeting in Geneva recently, I had an interesting conversation with Vinh Nguyen, who is a strategic security advisor and Senior Fellow for AI at CFR. I ...

AI Agent Governance Part 2 - What Good Looks Like: Governing AI Agents in Practice

If AI agents are becoming organizational actors, then governance needs to move beyond principles and into operational structure. In Camille Stewart Gloster’s upcoming book The Insider You ...

8 Ways to Reduce False Positives in Email Security

False positives can disrupt inbound email security as much as missed threats by slowing business workflows and eroding trust in security controls.

Ransomware Attacks Drive a Surge in Cyber Insurance Claims

Cyber insurance claims surged by 40% over the past eighteen months, while ransomware payments have dropped by 44%, according to a new report from Cowbell Cyber. The three most common ...

My Favorite 5 KnowBe4 Agents

With over 10 years of experience in implementing AI, KnowBe4 has a ton of agents on its platform which customers can use to significantly lower risk. They help to secure the digital ...