A wave of layoffs has swept through the tech industry, leaving IT teams in a rush to revoke all access those employees may have had. Additionally, 54% of tech hiring managers say their companies are likely to conduct layoffs within the next year, and 45% say employees whose roles can be replaced by AI are most likely to be let go, according to General Assembly. Taking away access to company data the moment someone leaves … More →
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NIST has introduced a new way to estimate which software vulnerabilities have likely been exploited, and it’s calling on the cybersecurity community to help improve and validate the method. The new metric, “Likely Exploited Vulnerabilities” (LEV), aims to close a key gap in vulnerability management: identifying which of the thousands of reported flaws each year are actually being used in real-world attacks. Organizations typically rely on two main tools for this: the Exploit Prediction Scoring … More →
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