“The fact that it is typically a smaller monetary crime makes it easier to accomplish,” Cisco Talos' Nick Biasini said.

“You actually have to be deliberate about building maturity and sustaining that maturity over time,” said Luta Security's Katie Moussouris.

Cisco said an adversary, who was previously identified as an initial access broker linking to the UNC2447 gang, Lapsus$ group, and Yanluowang ransomware operators, conducted the attack.

Krebs noted the four main factors are technology, threat actors, government, and the people.

"IoAs look at the overall behavior on the endpoint, wherein a malicious actor may use legitimate tools in performing an attack," CrowdStrike VP Brian Trombley said.

"Ransomware attackers don't take holidays off," Cybereason CSO Sam Curry said.

Lacework's new enhancements target the skill gap and alert fatigue issues in the industry.

CyberArk, Recorded Future, and VMware are the latest vendors to join the XDR Alliance.

“With API attacks accelerating year over year, it’s no wonder our survey shows security as the top concern about API strategies,” CEO Roey Eliyahu said.

“The convergence and consolidation will benefit Fortinet multiple years going forward,” Ken Xie said.

The Unit 42 managed detection and response services address alert fatigue and the talent gap for organizations of all sizes, SVP Wendi Whitmore claims.

“The volume, scale, and depth of intelligence is designed to empower SOCs to understand the specific threats their organization faces," Microsoft's Vasu Jakkal said.

"The true cost of a data breach is often not fully realized immediately following the event," Black Kite's Ferhat Dikbiyik said.

“When you say threat hunting, it means human-driven, human-less threat hunting is threat detection,” CrowdStrike VP Param Singh said.

AWS handles billions of distinct customer activities every day and tracks quadrillions of events every single month, said Amazon CSO Stephen Schmidt.

“We see a market change now that customers are going from AI is sort of exotic and maybe something in the future to something they have to have now,”

“Having an actual cyber recovery plan that allows for key capabilities to be brought up in a controlled and rapid manner is a key step in cyber resilience," IDC's

“Global threat actors have novel cyber artillery ready to deploy in case of escalation and organizations need to remain vigilant,” Trellix's Christiaan Beek said.

The White House convened a National Cyber Workforce and Education Summit to address the over 700,000-person security talent shortage.

The Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty service helps customers to contain their data and applications within their preferred geographic boundary.

The PREVENT announcement “brings us another big step closer to delivering our technology vision of a cyber AI loop,” Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson said.

Only 18% of the surveyed companies enforced multi-factor authentication and restricted remote access to operational technology networks, Barracuda's research showed.

"Log4j is an ‘endemic vulnerability’ and vulnerable instances of Log4j will remain in systems for many years to come," the Cyber Safety Review Board noted.

A large majority of those surveyed stated they have difficulty in maintaining their security posture due to staffing challenges.