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1 week ago | 
globaltrademag.com | Tim Freestone
In the halls of policy debate, tariffs are typically viewed through an economic lens: a lever to protect domestic industries, balance trade deficits, or exert geopolitical pressure. But as global commerce becomes increasingly digital, there’s a critical dimension that often goes unexamined—how tariffs and trade policy shape the cybersecurity posture of global enterprises.
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1 month ago | 
globaltrademag.com | Tim Freestone
Data security has fundamentally transformed global trade compliance. As international commerce moves deeper into digital environments, organizations face dual imperatives that reshape their approach to cross-border transactions. Companies must simultaneously protect valuable information assets while navigating an increasingly complex matrix of regulations that govern both trade activities and data-handling practices.
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1 month ago | 
securityinfowatch.com | Tim Freestone
Healthcare organizations face an unprecedented security crisis. Since 2018, the number of individuals affected by healthcare data breaches has nearly doubled—hitting 56 million last year. These breaches have evolved from isolated incidents into sophisticated, coordinated attacks threatening patient privacy and care delivery. The statistics paint a stark picture.
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1 month ago | 
msspalert.com | Jeffrey Burt |Tim Freestone
Securiti and Databricks are partnering to tackle the complex challenge of ensuring the vast amounts of corporate data needed to build enterprise AI applications and agents are secure and comply with privacy regulations. Enterprise proprietary data is crucial for organizations that need AI tools that address their specific needs, but putting such data into AI systems fuels worries about it being exposed.
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2 months ago | 
msspalert.com | Jeffrey Burt |Tim Freestone
Today, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are equally at risk of a cyberattack as larger companies, with nearly 40% of small businesses claiming they have experienced data loss as a result of a cyberattack in recent years. Threat actors target smaller organizations because they are often strapped for resources and lack an efficient cybersecurity infrastructure necessary to combat attacks like phishing, deepfakes, and ransomware.
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2 months ago | 
msspalert.com | Tim Freestone
COMMENTARY: Recent research from Harmonic reveals a critical security vulnerability in enterprise AI adoption: 8.5% of employee prompts to large language models contain sensitive corporate data. This finding, based on analysis of tens of thousands of prompts across platforms like ChatGPT and Claude, exposes substantial risks as organizations integrate AI tools into their daily operations.
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2 months ago | 
msspalert.com | Jeffrey Burt |Tim Freestone
Cybersecurity firm Acronis is rolling out a security and compliance platform that MSSPs and MSPs can use to protect clients' Microsoft 365 environments, a widely used service that has become a favorite target of threat actors. Acronis Ultimate 365, unveiled this week, gives security services providers a single multi-tenant solution for managing cybersecurity, backup, and compliance, delivering broad protections to organizations and giving themselves another revenue source.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
securityinfowatch.com | Tim Freestone
Healthcare organizations face an unprecedented security crisis. Since 2018, the number of individuals affected by healthcare data breaches has nearly doubled—hitting 56 million last year. These breaches have evolved from isolated incidents into sophisticated, coordinated attacks that threaten both patient privacy and care delivery. Cost of Data BreachesThe statistics paint a stark picture.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
scmr.com | Tim Freestone
In 2024, cyberattacks targeting critical sectors like healthcare, telecommunications, and finance escalated dramatically in the first half of 2024, exposing vulnerabilities in sensitive content communications and the digital supply chain. We evaluated the top 11 data breaches in 1H 2024 using an AI-developed algorithm named the Risk Exposure Index (score 1 to 10 from lowest to highest risk), and found that supply chain cyber risks pose a serious challenge in many instances.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
eandt.theiet.org | Tim Freestone
Teams should always be encouraged to find innovative applications for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to streamline workflows. However, in a phenomenon known as shadow AI, many employees are using the technology in ways that are not being sanctioned by their employers. This is a problem and not one that is not going to go away any time soon.
