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The AI agents and digital coworkers are automating tasks, enhancing productivity, and changing the way we collaborate. This post delves into the transformative impact of AI on the future of work, exploring the benefits, challenges, and potential implications for employees and businesses alike.

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Various Cybersecurity Experts, CISO Global A well-run kitchen requires a fully stocked pantry and a clear understanding of what’s on hand. In cybersecurity, your pantry is your asset inventory—every server, every piece of software, and even those firmware components lurking in the background. You wouldn’t want to cook without knowing exactly what ingredients are available, […]

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A Critical Guide to Securing Large Language Models
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Securing large language models (LLMs) presents unique challenges due to their complexity, scale, and data interactions. Before we dive into securing them, let’s touch on the basics.

• What are LLMs? LLMs are Large Language Models that are advanced artificial intelligence systems designed to understand and generate human-like text.
• How popular are LLMs? Incredibly, as they generate text, images, answer questions, and write creative content for you.
• How do businesses use LLMs? They enhance customer service, create content, summarize research, analyze large datasets, and translate languages.

Securing LLMs is critical as they are trained on massive datasets that contain sensitive information. Protecting LLMs from unauthorized access or misuse is vital.

The Thales Solution for LLM Security

• CTE agent: The CTE (CipherTrust Transparent Encryption) agent is a software component installed at the kernel level on a physical or virtual machine. It encrypts and protects data on that machine. Once installed, the CTE agent enables encryption for any number of devices or directories on the machine, ensuring that only authorized users and processes can access the encrypted data at file system level transparent to the application.
• CTE-U agent: The CTE-U (CipherTrust Transparent Encryption UserSpace) agent is a user-space level encryption solution that serves the same fundamental purpose, as the CTE agent. Unlike the CTE agent, the CTE-U agent operates at the user-space level.

What is CipherTrust Transparent Encryption?

CipherTrust Transparent Encryption (CTE), is part of the CipherTrust Data Security Platform (CDSP) which delivers data-at-rest encryption with centralized key management, privileged user access control and detailed data access audit logging. Protecting data wherever it resides, on-premises, across multiple clouds and within big data, and Kubernetes environments. The deployment is simple, scalable, and fast, with agents installed at operating, filesystem or device layer, and encryption and decryption are transparent to all applications that run above it. CipherTrust Transparent Encryption is designed to meet data security compliance and best practice requirements with minimal disruption, effort, and cost. Implementation is seamless keeping both business and operational processes working without changes even during deployment and roll out. The solution works in conjunction with the FIPS 140-2 up to Level 3 compliant CipherTrust Manager, which centralizes encryption key and policy management for CDSP.

Benefits of CipherTrust Transparent Encryption

Simplified Management: CipherTrust Manager provides a unified management console that enables you to discover and classify sensitive data and protect data using integrated Thales Data Protection Connectors across on-premises data stores and multi-cloud deployments. It offers advanced self-service licensing for improved visibility and control of licenses.

Cloud-friendly Deployment: CipherTrust Manager offers users additional hosting options, and can run as a native virtual machine on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, Microsoft HyperV and more. Additionally, native support for CipherTrust Cloud Key Management is available on CipherTrust Manager to streamline key management across multiple cloud infrastructures and SaaS applications.

Flexible Form Factors:

CipherTrust Manager is available in both virtual and physical form factors. Flexible deployment options can easily scale to provide key management at remote facilities or in cloud infrastructures. CipherTrust Manager supports managing keys in the FIPS 140 L3 boundary of Luna Network HSM.

Protect LLMs with Thales

To Protect LLMs, the Thales CipherTrust Data Security Platform with Transparent Encryption is used, whereas enterprises can leverage Thales’ advanced data protection features within the CipherTrust platform. Thales is a trusted brand in the LLM Security Industry. View our comprehensive White Paper for information on LLM Security. We'll continue to innovate with LLM Security and continue publishing updates in future articles.

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Securing large language models (LLMs) presents unique challenges due to their complexity, scale, and data interactions. Before we dive into securing them, let’s touch on the basics.

• What are LLMs? LLMs are Large Language Models that are advanced artificial intelligence systems designed to understand and generate human-like text.
• How popular are LLMs? Incredibly, as they generate text, images, answer questions, and write creative content for you.
• How do businesses use LLMs? They enhance customer service, create content, summarize research, analyze large datasets, and translate languages.

Securing LLMs is critical as they are trained on massive datasets that contain sensitive information. Protecting LLMs from unauthorized access or misuse is vital.

The Thales Solution for LLM Security

• CTE agent: The CTE (CipherTrust Transparent Encryption) agent is a software component installed at the kernel level on a physical or virtual machine. It encrypts and protects data on that machine. Once installed, the CTE agent enables encryption for any number of devices or directories on the machine, ensuring that only authorized users and processes can access the encrypted data at file system level transparent to the application.
• CTE-U agent: The CTE-U (CipherTrust Transparent Encryption UserSpace) agent is a user-space level encryption solution that serves the same fundamental purpose, as the CTE agent. Unlike the CTE agent, the CTE-U agent operates at the user-space level.

What is CipherTrust Transparent Encryption?

CipherTrust Transparent Encryption (CTE), is part of the CipherTrust Data Security Platform (CDSP) which delivers data-at-rest encryption with centralized key management, privileged user access control and detailed data access audit logging. Protecting data wherever it resides, on-premises, across multiple clouds and within big data, and Kubernetes environments. The deployment is simple, scalable, and fast, with agents installed at operating, filesystem or device layer, and encryption and decryption are transparent to all applications that run above it. CipherTrust Transparent Encryption is designed to meet data security compliance and best practice requirements with minimal disruption, effort, and cost. Implementation is seamless keeping both business and operational processes working without changes even during deployment and roll out. The solution works in conjunction with the FIPS 140-2 up to Level 3 compliant CipherTrust Manager, which centralizes encryption key and policy management for CDSP.

Benefits of CipherTrust Transparent Encryption

Simplified Management: CipherTrust Manager provides a unified management console that enables you to discover and classify sensitive data and protect data using integrated Thales Data Protection Connectors across on-premises data stores and multi-cloud deployments. It offers advanced self-service licensing for improved visibility and control of licenses.

Cloud-friendly Deployment: CipherTrust Manager offers users additional hosting options, and can run as a native virtual machine on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, Microsoft HyperV and more. Additionally, native support for CipherTrust Cloud Key Management is available on CipherTrust Manager to streamline key management across multiple cloud infrastructures and SaaS applications.

Flexible Form Factors:

CipherTrust Manager is available in both virtual and physical form factors. Flexible deployment options can easily scale to provide key management at remote facilities or in cloud infrastructures. CipherTrust Manager supports managing keys in the FIPS 140 L3 boundary of Luna Network HSM.

Protect LLMs with Thales

To Protect LLMs, the Thales CipherTrust Data Security Platform with Transparent Encryption is used, whereas enterprises can leverage Thales’ advanced data protection features within the CipherTrust platform. Thales is a trusted brand in the LLM Security Industry. View our comprehensive White Paper for information on LLM Security. We'll continue to innovate with LLM Security and continue publishing updates in future articles.

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Travel accounts and platforms provide juicy targets for fraudsters, particularly around holidays. Learn how to identify threats and keep your customers' travel plans safe.

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Fortinet today extended the reach of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to include support for its network detection and response (NDR) and cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP).

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 BIX isn’t just an AI assistant—it’s a game-changer in cybersecurity. With BIX, organizations can instantly get clear, actionable answers on everything from vulnerabilities to threat analysis and risk mitigation, transforming massive data into precise insights, risk reduction strategies with quantifiable ROI. But how did this revolutionary AI come to life? It all started back in …

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Authors/Presenters: Alon Leviev

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Threat actors are becoming increasingly creative, using vulnerabilities to infiltrate organizations in ways that might not immediately raise alarms. Veriti’s research team recently discovered a targeted email campaign utilizing CVE-2024-38213, cleverly disguised to appear associated with the Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE) Annual Conference in Munich. By taking advantage of this vulnerability, attackers managed to bypass […]

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AppOmni announced a partnership that combines the company’s Zero Trust Posture Management (ZTPM) solution with Cisco’s Security Service Edge (SSE) technology suite.

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Stop chasing false positives in your self-hosted instances. With GitGuardian's custom host for validity checks, security teams get real-time insights to prioritize active threats, reduce noise, and prevent costly breaches.

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Valid card data is highly sought-after on the cybercrime underground. In fact, it’s helping to drive a global epidemic in payment fraud predicted to reach $40bn by 2026. In a bid to stem losses, the card industry created the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) over two decades ago. No organization that processes, transmits or stores card data can afford to ignore it. Yet compliance can be onerous.

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As organizations prioritize IT security and efficiency, the concept of "shifting left" has gained momentum across both security and service management. Traditionally, many IT security and IT Service Management (ITSM) practices have focused on reactive measures—identifying and remediating issues after they arise post-event. However, with the rapid shift toward DevSecOps and a need for proactive protection and resiliency in a complex threat landscape, the "shift left" paradigm is empowering teams to address security and compliance from the beginning of the software development and operations cycle. 

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GenAI has become more prevalent, making it essential for security teams to know which threat adversaries are using GenAI, and how exactly they are using it. Recognized AI threat researcher and expert Rachel James collaborated with Tidal Cyber to add the latest weekly threat intelligence content to the Tidal Cyber knowledge base.

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Permiso today made available three additional tools under an open-source license that make it simpler to secure cloud computing environments.

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In today’s fast-paced digital ecosystem, APIs are the lifeblood connecting an ever-growing universe of applications and systems, driving efficiency and agility for modern organizations. But as APIs continue to proliferate, they introduce new risks that cybersecurity teams must navigate with precision and purpose. The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) has released a new report, “API Security […]

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Later in the month, our founder Simon Moffatt, will host a webinar panel discussing the rise of NIS2 - what it is, how it impacts identity and security controls and risk management and what pragmatic steps organisations can take to become compliant.

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Understanding Runtime Security in Multi-Cloud Environments Runtime security in multi-cloud environments encompasses the continuous monitoring and protection of

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Really interesting research: “An LLM-Assisted Easy-to-Trigger Backdoor Attack on Code Completion Models: Injecting Disguised Vulnerabilities against Strong Detection“:

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed code com-
pletion tasks, providing context-based suggestions to boost developer productivity in software engineering. As users often fine-tune these models for specific applications, poisoning and backdoor attacks can covertly alter the model outputs. To address this critical security challenge, we introduce CODEBREAKER, a pioneering LLM-assisted backdoor attack framework on code completion models. Unlike recent attacks that embed malicious payloads in detectable or irrelevant sections of the code (e.g., comments), CODEBREAKER leverages LLMs (e.g., GPT-4) for sophisticated payload transformation (without affecting functionalities), ensuring that both the poisoned data for fine-tuning and generated code can evade strong vulnerability detection. CODEBREAKER stands out with its comprehensive coverage of vulnerabilities, making it the first to provide such an extensive set for evaluation. Our extensive experimental evaluations and user studies underline the strong attack performance of CODEBREAKER across various settings, validating its superiority over existing approaches. By integrating malicious payloads directly into the source code with minimal transformation, CODEBREAKER challenges current security measures, underscoring the critical need for more robust defenses for code completion...

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