New Identity Infrastructure Streamlines Compliance Adherence in Regulated Settings Identity management startup Orchid Security raised $36 million in a seed round led by Team8 and Intel Capital to tackle compliance challenges. The company's infrastructure addresses complex compliance and security needs for enterprises, enabling efficient application onboarding and integration.
US CISA Releases Guidance to Streamline AI Cyber Incident Information Sharing The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a playbook Tuesday through its flagship public-private collaborative to help guide public-private information sharing around artificial intelligence cybersecurity incidents while detailing federal actions to strengthen shared defense.
Threat Actor 'Codefinger' Targets Cloud Environments A ransomware group is targeting Amazon S3 buckets, exploiting the data stored there using AWS's server-side encryption with customer keys and demanding a ransom in exchange for the encryption key needed to unlock the data. The group uses compromised or publicly exposed AWS account credentials.
Executive Order Paves Way for Data Centers on Federal Land, Clean Energy Progress The U.S. federal government will open up sites to developers of AI frontier models to build gigawatt-scale data centers with clean energy under an executive order signed Tuesday by President Joe Biden. AI applications are expected to drive soaring energy demands well beyond 2030.