Security: Why identity has become a Trojan horse, and what to do about it | |
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SC Media
IT security teams layer in solutions to prevent threat actors from infiltrating networks, devices, and applications. But all those measures are useless if someone lets them in through the front door.
“When we think about security, usually we’re thinking about endpoint security and network security, maybe even data security these days. But oftentimes identity is overlooked,” Matt Caufield, VP of product and identity security at Cisco, said during the recent SC Media panelcast Detecting the Identity Trojan Horse: The Human Element of Cyber Breaches and Its Paradox with Cyber Identity. “It’s still a function that lives within the IT organization, and it’s still seen as an operational function for most organizations—despite the fact that the vast majority of breaches originate with identity.” Read More
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Healthcare IT: AHA concerned over penalties for cybersecurity standards | |
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Photo: Weiquan Lin/Getty Images | |
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Healthcare Finance News
In a statement to the Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, the American Hospital Association said it was concerned over potential penalties for hospitals and other healthcare facilities that fall short of the Biden administration's cybersecurity standards.
According to the hospital group, hospitals and health systems are not the primary source of cyber risk exposure facing the healthcare sector. An internal review of the top data breaches in 2023 showed that more than 95% of the most significant health sector data breaches – defined by those in which over one million records were exposed – were related to "business associates" and other nonhospital healthcare entities, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which had a breach included in the top 20 largest data breaches last year. Read More
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Homeland Security: Emergency services a likely target for cyberattacks, warns DHS | |
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ABC News
Calling 911 is meant to save lives. But the emergency service, and others like it, are also viewed as ripe targets for criminally minded cyber-attackers, according to a new federal assessment – and any vulnerability in those critical networks can expose victims to a multitude of dangerous ripple effects.
The analysis, compiled by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and obtained by ABC News, outlines concerns that the Emergency Service Sector can be exploited and mined for sensitive data, in turn hampering medical and law enforcement services and posing an ongoing threat to personal information and public safety. Read More
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Transportation: US Has a fast EV-charging station for every 15 gas stations | |
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Transport Topics
Automakers may be pumping the brakes on EV production in the U.S., but charging challenges — traditionally a major hurdle to adoption — are vanishing at a rapid clip.
Almost 600 public fast-charging stations were switched on for U.S. drivers in the first three months of the year, a 7.6% increase over the end of 2023, according to a Bloomberg Green analysis of federal data. There are now almost 8,200 quick-turn EV stations across the country, or one for every 15 gas stations. Tesla is responsible for slightly more than one quarter of them. Read More
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Human Resources: Employers say they struggle to find talent for AI-related roles | |
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HR Dive
As the AI-driven workplace becomes more prevalent, companies are struggling to find talent to fill roles and ensure their workforce remains competitive, according to an April 16 report from General Assembly, a global tech training firm.
In a survey, leaders reported that it’s tough to hire people with AI-related skills, so they’re paying more to hire the talent they need and using alternative methods to find candidates.
“Companies are entering a new era — one that requires their workforce to not just master AI tools available on the market today, but also respond quickly to the rapid evolution of generative AI,” Gretchen Jacobi, head of enterprise at General Assembly, said in a statement. Read More
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Business & Technology: For success with AI, bring everyone on board | | |
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Harvard Business Review
AI is intimidating your employees. As machines increasingly perform intellectually demanding tasks that were previously reserved for humans, your people feel more excluded and less necessary than ever. And the problem is getting worse. According to the market research company Vanson Bourne, 80% of organizations say that their main technological goal is hyperautomation—the end-to-end automation of as many business processes as possible. Executives have a tendency to pursue that goal without any feedback from their employees—the people whose jobs, and lives, will be most affected by achieving it. But my decades of research into the enterprise adoption of emerging technologies has proved one thing time and again: The savviest leaders prioritize participation by the rank and file throughout the adoption process.
When employees are excluded from that process, they become averse to working with AI, never develop trust in its capabilities, and resist even the positive changes that come from using it. Read More
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