Cybersecurity

In their pursuit of digital transformation, the healthcare and public health (HPH) sectors have consistently welcomed technological advancement. Even before the COVID-19 epidemic, hospitals and medical institutions required digital solutions and collaboration tools to communicate with both patients and employees. However, these new technologies have merely increased their attack surface, which bad actors are taking advantage of. Healthcare cybersecurity dangers…

Risk aggregation is not a novel idea. For example, the insurance business has long studied how common assets and similarities between organizations in their books store potential risk. Risk aggregation is the process of bringing together compounding risks to understand the overall risk to a company, a region, an industry, and other entities. For example, if a storm strikes a…

Google has laid off 12,000 employees. Amazon and Microsoft have laid off a total of 28,000 employees. Twitter has apparently laid off 5,200 employees. Meta (Facebook, etc.) laid off 11,000. This is simply the tech behemoths and practically all of the employees searching for new jobs are, by definition, tech-savvy – and some will be cyber security experts. Layoffs are…

How can society maximize the advantages provided by generative artificial intelligence (AI) while minimizing the possible drawbacks, especially the unknown cybersecurity risks? This is where ENISA, the cybersecurity agency of the European Union, comes in. On Wednesday, ENISA organized a symposium in Brussels with the stated goal of discussing “key elements of cybersecurity in AI systems as well as challenges…