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The pilot phase is over. Here’s what’s next for enterprise AI automation
According to new research, organizations aren’t asking if the latest tool, agentic AI, can work — they’re asking how to make it work across the business right now. The conversation has developed from experimentation to execution at an uncommon pace, and that shift is quietly reshaping how work actually gets done. In many organizations, AI is no longer an experimental capability sitting on the edge of operations. It is gradually becoming embedded into the processes that power everyday work.
The pilot phase is over. Here's what's next for enterprise AI automation
Bill Conner For years, companies approached new technology cautiously. Teams ran small pilots, tested AI tools in one department, and waited to see if the investment paid off. Budgets were tight, and leaders worried about committing too much too soon for both financial and organizational reasons. That approach made sense. Large-scale technology deployments carry risk, and incremental experimentation allowed organizations to learn without disrupting the business.
The pilot phase is over. Here’s what’s next for enterprise AI automation
For years, companies approached new technology cautiously. Teams ran small pilots, tested AI tools in one department, and waited to see if the investment paid off. Budgets were tight, and leaders worried about committing too much too soon for both financial and organizational reasons. That approach made sense. Large-scale technology deployments carry risk, and incremental experimentation allowed organizations to learn without disrupting the business.
La mejor defensa es: una buena defensa
Se suele decir que “la mejor defensa es un buen ataque”, y ese conocido dicho se aplica a los deportes, a los juegos e incluso a la estrategia militar. El concepto es que ser proactivos, en vez de pasivos, agotará los recursos de la oposición y, tarde o temprano, se frenará su habilidad para contraatacar, lo que nos dará una ventaja estratégica.
GCHQ advisor: "it's a cyberarms race" as 'ransomware builder' emerges
By Bill Conner (pictured) CEO & President at SonicWall, & GCHQ advisor Now, any malicious actor can purchase a builder and develop their own ransomware strains, after cybersecurity researchers disclosed details of the latest version of the Chaos ransomware line, dubbed Yashma. This proves the ongoing cyber arms race. Bill Conner made the following comment: “We are dealing with an escalating arms race. At the same time, threat actors have gotten better and more efficient in their attacks.
- IT Supply Chain
By Bill Conner (pictured) CEO, SonicWall Nordex, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturers, says that on 31 March 2022 Nordex Group IT security detected that it is subject to a cyber security incident. When hitting companies integral to CNI, this becomes of huge concern. Bill Conner, CEO at cybersecurity from SonicWall made the following comment: “Whether it’s elections, tariffs or natural disasters, countries and organizations alike currently tend to operate independently.
LokiLocker proves ransomware evolving rapidly
By Bill Conner (pictured) President & CEO at SonicWall A new LokiLocker ransomware family has been discovered. Clearly, cyberthreats are rapidly evolving, as cybercriminals work to adapt their attack methods, seeing new families and variants take the stage. Ransomware operators continue to mix-and-match malware ingredients deployed during the attack, as well as escalating their techniques.
Red Cross cyber attack
By Bill Conner (pictured) CEO & President, SonicWall It’s been confirmed the Red Cross cyber attack was the work of nation-state actors. SonicWall’s latest report, released today, confirms this is not a standalone development, revealing a +1885% and +755% of ransomware attacks on the global government and healthcare sectors respectively.
Red Cross cyber attack is not a standalone development
By Bill Conner (pictured) CEO & President, SonicWall It’s been confirmed the Red Cross cyber attack was the work of nation-state actors. SonicWall’s latest report, released today, confirms this is not a standalone development, revealing a +1885% and +755% of ransomware attacks on the global government and healthcare sectors respectively.
Breaking Comments On Red Cross Cyber Attack
Cyber attacks like WannaCry and Not-Petya demonstrate governments can and will, use nefarious means to target critical national infrastructure of nation states. That said, it is not just national infrastructure at risk. For many state-sponsored hackers, business and governmental department disruption is top of the agenda, much like the Red Cross attack. As the cyber-arms race continues to escalate, there is increasing pressure on the US and UK governments to truly understand the nature of .....
Red Cross Cyberattack
By Bill Conner (pictured) CEO at SonicWall, and cybersecurity industry veteran Cyber risk affects virtually every kind of enterprise. It is not a matter of if, but when. Companies should start with the presumption that they will be attacked and have a comprehensive incident response plan in place. An incident response plan should include a consumer notification process especially when sensitive data such as Social Security numbers and financial information is corrupted.
UK and US join forces to strike back in cyber-space
By Bill Conner (pictured) CEO at SonicWall Fleming from GCHQ and Nakasone from the USA’s NSA met to address how both nations today face strategic threats in an interconnected, digital world that seek to undermine their shared principles, norms, and values. They agree that strategic engagement in cyber-space is crucial to defending our way of life, by addressing these evolving threats with a full range of capabilities.
The Rise of Ransomware and How the Education Sector Can Protect Itself
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K minister Raab wakes up to aggressive cyber-attacks targeting British education sector
By Bill Conner (pictured) CEO, SonicWall Dominic Raab has alerted the Cyber UK conference that 80 British schools and universities were hit by ransomware attacks in March, forcing them to delay reopening. Raab will outline how hackers from hostile states and criminal gangs undermine the foundations of society and democracy, as cyberattacks pose a real risk to national and individual security.
5G: What CEOs Need To Know About The Next Cellular Revolution
From international news outlets to your Facebook news feed, there’s no shortage of opinions on 5G. These fall into three main groups: the optimistic prognosticators, who believe 5G will change everything; the pragmatic centrists, who believe 5G is a big leap; and the doomsayers, who warn the fifth generation of cellular could cause irreparable harm to businesses. There is some amount of alarmism that always surrounds introductions of new technologies.
Survey: Worker Safety A Board Priority During Covid Crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged many corporate boards’ crisis management skills, and lately, that has meant deciding what to do with workers – the backbone of the American economy. Since no one can accurately predict when the pandemic will be over, corporate directors have critical workforce and human capital management decisions to make that will determine whether their companies will survive. Boards that mismanage workforce strategy now will face bankruptcy or worse in 2021.
COVID-19 ushers in a new era of cybersecurity
COVID-19 ushers in a new era of cybersecurity BY BILL CONNER, eCampus News This semester, higher-ed institutions around the world have struggled to keep up with the digital demands of remote learning.
COVID-19 ushers in a new era of cybersecurity
This semester, higher-ed institutions around the world have struggled to keep up with the digital demands of remote learning. As these organizations build the infrastructure that will support distance learning moving forward, it’s more critical than ever for the education industry to consider the safety and security of its students and faculty members as we look ahead to how COVID-19 will continue to impact learning institutions. College campuses have long been a target for cyber threat actors.
Veiled Threats: The Growing Cyberattack Vectors Few People Talk About
Malware is a ubiquitous term that’s infiltrated mainstream nomenclature. Unfortunately, just because there’s awareness around malware doesn’t mean there’s proper understanding about how malware is propagated to exploit businesses, organizations, governments, schools and people. Just like a burglar robbing a house, malware needs a way onto a network or device before it can do its bidding.
Retail’s weakness is cyber crime’s opportunity
By Bill Conner, CEO, SonicWall. Black Friday kicks off the festive shopping season 29 November this year, with millions of shoppers expected to take advantage of low prices. In 2018 alone, online Black Friday sales totaled $6.22bn; up 23% on the previous year’s figures. 2019 presents an excellent opportunity for retailers to not only increase revenues again, but elevate brand voice and extract valuable customer data leading to potential repeat sales later on.
Retail’s weakness is cyber crime’s opportunity
By Bill Conner, CEO, SonicWall. Black Friday kicks off the festive shopping season 29 November this year, with millions of shoppers expected to take advantage of low prices. In 2018 alone, online Black Friday sales totaled $6.22bn; up 23% on the previous year’s figures. 2019 presents an excellent opportunity for retailers to not only increase revenues again, but elevate brand voice and extract valuable customer data leading to potential repeat sales later on.
Council Post: Back-To-School Lists Should Now Include Ransomware
Weeks before the start of school, K-12 administrators have their agendas crammed with everything from staffing and lesson-planning to facility operations, enrollment and parental engagement. Until a few years ago, ransomware was never on the back-to-school list. But a recent deluge of ransomware attacks have taken down schools across the country, from New York, Louisiana and Oklahoma to California and back again.
Security Boulevard
The current state of cybersecurity is complex, fast-moving and a critical risk to all organizations. Understanding where U.S. businesses stack up in terms of their security knowledge and defense strategy is of utmost importance. It’s critical that leaders—from enterprise to small business and government—gain more awareness of one of the greatest challenges cybersecurity is currently facing. We’ve entered an era of advanced and persistent layered attacks.
Technology enablement demands layered cyber-security
Layered security needs next-gen firewalls, deep packet inspection, cloud-based multi-engine sandboxing, advanced real-time deep memory inspection, and next-gen endpoint security with rollback capability.
SMBs Need Layered Security To Defend Their Businesses
Cybercriminals think you’re an easy target. They think you’re untrained. They think you’re underfunded. They think you’re unaware. You, owners of the small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), are ripe for exploitation. And in many cases, through no fault of your own, they’re right. In December alone, organizations faced an average of 43 ransomware attacks (153% year-over-year increase) and 465 phishing attacks (23% year-over-year increase), according to our global customer cyberthreat data.
A year in hacking - what we can learn from 2018
SonicWall Capture Labs monitored the UK threat situation throughout November & December 2018 & the results provide illuminating insights to help businesses get a full picture of threats & prepare accordingly. by Bill Conner To access this content please sign in or register below for free SIGN IN Email address Password Stay signed in for 30 days Forgotten password? Having trouble signing in?
Two cybersecurity policies, one clear new objective
In the wake of countless cyberattacks, two federal cybersecurity policies are providing much-needed guidance to improve the defense of our nation’s cyber infrastructure, networks and data, setting a clear roadmap on how we can best protect the country. However, the work is not done yet. With a new set of legislators freshly elected, additional steps must be taken to ensure critical cyber policies remain a top priority.
Facebook Breach Now Affecting 90m Users - What Do The Experts Say?
Despite revelations that Facebook’s data breach could have affected up to 90 million users, will it, just like Tesco Bank, have its fine reduced for good behaviour? The social networking site disclosed the breach on Friday, ahead of the standard 72-hour window, and to a far tighter deadline than companies usually adopt. Cybersecurity expert and CEO of SonicWall, Bill Conner, has advised both the US and UK governments on cybersecurity matters and has this to say.
Protecting SMBs: The Key to Shrinking Nation’s Cyberattack Surface
Differences across the aisle couldn’t stop it. For far too long, the underbelly of the nation’s economy has been ripe for exploitation. Poorly guarded but chock full of valuable data, intellectual property and access-granting credentials, the networks of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) have too often come second to enterprises, governments and large organizations. On Aug.
Managing Cybersecurity Policy, Compliance And Enforcement Across The Enterprise
The modern network environment is a dynamic entity. It interacts. It moves. It evolves. As such, organizations that attempt to maintain a sense of static peace and orderly conduct are fooling themselves into false senses of security. This is the core reason many enterprises adopt multilayered cybersecurity strategies. The desired outcome is a system of checkpoint safeguards that form an inside-out defense at various stages to help thwart today’s modern cyberattack.
Real-Time Cyber Threat Intelligence Is More Critical Than Ever
With blinding speed, agility and innovation, cybercriminals infiltrate well-meaning organizations in seconds, stealing data, trust and the futures of entire businesses. They attack with such avarice and maliciousness, what we thought we knew about threat actors and cybercriminals a year ago appears to be materially different today. It’s the core reason cyber threats are becoming the number one risk to business, brands, operations and financials.
Human Predictability Make Attacks Easy For Threat Actors
Now that the books are closed on 2017, the cybersecurity industry is developing a better understanding of the strategies currently used by threat actors and cybercriminals. Unfortunately, we’ve found that malicious groups are still using the same malware — with slight tweaks and modifications — as they have in years past. And it’s still working. Why? Simply, our behavior hasn’t changed.
SEC, Congress take steps toward cyber accountability and transparency
Less than two months after Intel and other technology companies disclosed the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution vulnerabilities, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published updated guidelines instructing public companies on how and when to disclose cybersecurity vulnerabilities and incidents that could potentially cause risk to the public.
A Constant Threat: The Persistence Of The Email-Borne Cyberattack
Email has been a go-to method of distributing malware for years, and the reason why is simple: It's effective. Various reports have indicated that over half of the emails we receive today are spam that contain malware or malicious URLs, and more than 90% of successful security breaches start with phishing email campaigns. Cybercriminals are striking even more effectively with highly targeted attacks such as spear phishing, whaling and business email compromise (BEC) scams.
How Corporate Citizens Can Do Their Part In The Fight Against IoT Cyberattacks
Imagine security cameras around the world being taken over by hackers, working in tandem to attack your company’s servers and take down your website. It sounds like something out of a sci-fi film, but it’s a threat to both corporate security and public safety based all too firmly in reality. This scenario is more likely than you might think, as hackers are frequently launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
How One Security Setting Can Solve The Web Encryption Problem
As a cybersecurity professional, I’ve worked for more than two decades to educate business leaders on the importance of security to their companies’ survival and growth. It’s only become a more pressing issue as interactions between companies and their customers have increasingly moved online. Your business is one that cyberthieves most hope to compromise, as you hold the keys to valuable customer data and the strings to larger purses than the average consumer.
Four Cybersecurity Trends That Every Retailer Needs to Know
Call it optimism or just human nature — retailers, like most people, don’t like to spend a lot of time thinking about unseen threats. A series of painful breaches a few years ago forced the industry to wake up to the dangers of cyber crime and implement new measures to address and control online risks, leading to industrywide security gains.
Ransomware-As-A-Service: The Next Great Cyber Threat?
Corporate IT teams have been under a great deal of pressure since a spate of massive data breaches exposed numerous weaknesses in the average security program. As teams worked overtime throughout 2016 to shore up the gaps, one type of malware flourished at an incredible pace. As recent cybersecurity infographics and my company’s Annual Threat Report have revealed, ransomware is on the rise. We saw that attacks grew 167 times over, from 4 million in 2015 to 638 million in 2016.
Be Prepared for These Retail Cybercrime Trends in 2017
It wasn’t that long ago that the retail industry received the biggest cybersecurity gut punch it’s had in recent memory. Over the past few years, we’ve seen retailers begin implementing credit card chip technology and other security measures in an effort to protect consumers’ payment data and their brands’ reputations. However, as technology and security measures evolve, so do attacks.
The Blackphone Project
The way we work has evolved. With a growing number of employees now using personal devices to connect to their enterprise networks, traditional approaches to security are no longer enough. Silent Circle is building the world’s first enterprise privacy platform, a unique combination of software, services and devices. Everything we do is designed to help the enterprise achieve real privacy without compromising productivity.
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