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Check Point is rolling out a new four-pillar cybersecurity strategy to give security teams an edge in the ongoing AI arms race with threat actors and is making three acquisitions that will play a critical role in getting it going.

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AI regulation doesn’t have to be romanticized or feared. Understand what matters in AI governance, compliance, and SaaS risk management.

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This article explores the complexities of cyberwarfare, emphasizing the need to reconsider how we categorize cyber operations within the framework of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC). It discusses the challenges posed by AI in transforming traditional warfare notions and highlights the potential risks associated with the misuse of emerging technologies in conflicts.

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Learn what a SAML assertion is in Single Sign-On. Discover how these XML trust tokens securely exchange identity data between IdPs and Service Providers.

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In healthcare software, quality is inseparable from compliance. A feature working as designed is not enough. Every workflow, integration, and data exchange must protect Protected...Read More

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Post-quantum authentication helps consumer apps stay secure against quantum computing threats with future-proof encryption and identity protection.

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Olympic merchandise is already being used as bait. We’ve identified nearly 20 fake shop sites targeting fans globally.

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In 2025, NSFOCUS Fuying Lab disclosed a new APT group targeting China’s scientific research sector, dubbed “ChainedShark” (tracking number: Actor240820). Been active since May 2024, the group’s operations are marked by high strategic coherence and technical sophistication. Its primary targets are professionals in Chinese universities and research institutions specializing in international relations, marine technology, and related […]

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In 2026, compliance sits at the intersection of AI adoption, expanding privacy regulations, and rising cybersecurity risk. As regulatory expectations tighten and digital systems grow more complex, organizations are under.

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Learn how CVE-2026-1281 and CVE-2026-1340 enable pre-auth RCE in Ivanti EPMM, now actively exploited, and how AppTrana helps block attacks across applications.

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As it is said, the ‘why’ and ‘how’ is much important than ‘should’. It’s exactly applicable in today’s cyberspace. Every day, organizations survive in an unpredictable cyber-risk climate. If your defense storehouse comprises just fragmented tools and manual processes, you are not playing it safe. If you are ‘not safe’, you are just seconds away […]

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AI regulation doesn’t have to be romanticized or feared. Understand what matters in AI governance, compliance, and SaaS risk management.

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In my previous post, I walked through how disconnected MCP servers and AI agents create a growing blind spot in enterprise identity. The problem: thousands of MCP deployments running with overly broad tokens, no authentication, and no connection to your identity fabric. The solution: federate everything through the Maverics AI Identity Gateway. That post assumed...

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Session 12B: Malware

Authors, Creators & Presenters: Dung Thuy Nguyen (Vanderbilt University), Ngoc N. Tran (Vanderbilt University), Taylor T. Johnson (Vanderbilt University), Kevin Leach (Vanderbilt University)

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PBP: Post-Training Backdoor Purification for Malware Classifiers

In recent years, the rise of machine learning (ML) in cybersecurity has brought new challenges, including the increasing threat of backdoor poisoning attacks on ML malware classifiers. These attacks aim to manipulate model behavior when provided with a particular input trigger. For instance, adversaries could inject malicious samples into public malware repositories, contaminating the training data and potentially misclassifying malware by the ML model. Current countermeasures predominantly focus on detecting poisoned samples by leveraging disagreements within the outputs of a diverse set of ensemble models on training data points. However, these methods are not applicable in scenarios involving ML-as-a-Service (MLaaS) or for users who seek to purify a backdoored model post-training. Addressing this scenario, we introduce PBP, a post-training defense for malware classifiers that mitigates various types of backdoor embeddings without assuming any specific backdoor embedding mechanism. Our method exploits the influence of backdoor attacks on the activation distribution of neural networks, independent of the trigger-embedding method. In the presence of a backdoor attack, the activation distribution of each layer is distorted into a mixture of distributions. By regulating the statistics of the batch normalization layers, we can guide a backdoored model to perform similarly to a clean one. Our method demonstrates substantial advantages over several state-of-the-art methods, as evidenced by experiments on two datasets, two types of backdoor methods, and various attack configurations. Our experiments showcase that PBP can mitigate even the SOTA backdoor attacks for malware classifiers, e.g., Jigsaw Puzzle, which was previously demonstrated to be stealthy against existing backdoor defenses. Notably, your approach requires only a small portion of the training data -- only 1% -- to purify the backdoor and reduce the attack success rate from 100% to almost 0%, a 100-fold improvement over the baseline methods.

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The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. The target audience includes those interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on actual system design and implementation. A major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technologies.

Our thanks to the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s superb NDSS Symposium 2025 Conference content on the Organizations' YouTube Channel.

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Imagine a modern office building. Not everyone who works there can go everywhere. Employees can access the building entrance, their own floor, and the meeting rooms they need, but they can’t (and shouldn’t be able to) walk into the server room, access executive offices, or wander freely across every floor. This may seem restrictive, but it’s simply how safety and order are maintained.

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Educators recognize the dual reality of educational technology (EdTech): its potential to sharpen student focus and detract from it. Schools must proactively leverage technology’s advantages while mitigating its risks to student productivity. Read on as we unpack the evolving importance and challenge of supporting student focus. We also detail four categories of classroom focus tools, ...

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In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, organizations must maintain continuous visibility, strong detection mechanisms, and rapid response capabilities to defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber adversaries. Our Security Operations framework demonstrates proven effectiveness in identifying, analyzing, and mitigating high-risk network threats in real time. Below are two recent case studies that highlight our proactive detection, investigative

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Digital sovereignty is now a strategic imperative for many European organizations. According to a new IDC Market Note¹, “Sovereignty is not viewed just as a contractual consideration, but as an architectural one, and one of technical feasibility.”

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