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2 days ago | 
msspalert.com | Suparna Chawla Bhasin |Tim Freestone
Bitdefender has expanded its GravityZone platform with a new module, GravityZone Compliance Manager, designed to streamline regulatory compliance while maintaining strong endpoint protection. As organizations face growing pressure from regulations such as GDPR, DORA, NIS2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS, Bitdefender offers a unified approach that connects security telemetry, risk analytics, and compliance reporting in a single console.
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1 week ago | 
msspalert.com | Tim Freestone |Suparna Chawla Bhasin
Commentary: It's not just that attacks are rising, it's where they're landing. The systems we rely on to move sensitive data between vendors, partners, and teams are now prime targets. What we're seeing this year isn't background noise; it's a flashing warning sign that our approach to third-party security needs to evolve. Vendor risk isn't a box you check at onboarding, it's dynamic, and it's directly tied to broader business risk.
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1 week ago | 
smartindustry.com | Tim Freestone
What you’ll learn:While 77% of manufacturers leverage AI for efficiency, these connections create a perfect storm of vulnerabilities targeted by attackers. Modern manufacturing operations generate and process data assets that extend far beyond traditional production metrics. The integration of AI into manufacturing operations fundamentally transforms existing security challenges into exponentially greater threats.
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1 month 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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Feb 27, 2025 | 
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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Feb 26, 2025 | 
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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Feb 26, 2025 | 
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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Feb 26, 2025 | 
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.
