DDoS Protection
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime
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Security Operations
Also: Gartner’s Sydney Summit Highlights, Rising OT Security Risks
In this week’s update, ISMG editors discussed X’s major DDoS outages, politically motivated cyberattacks, key takeaways from Gartner’s Security & Risk Summit in Sydney, and rising operational technology threats highlighted in recent Dragos and Gartner reports.
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The panelists – Anna Delaney, director, productions; Tony Morbin, executive news editor, EU; Suparna Goswami, associate editor, ISMG Asia; and Mathew Schwartz, executive editor of DataBreachToday and Europe – discussed:
- Social platform X’s recent DDoS-related outages, highlighting the impact politically driven cyberthreats and raising questions about the Elon Musk’s infrastructure played a role;
- Highlights from Gartner’s Risk and Security Summit in Sydney covering AI in security, Australia’s evolving cyber regulations, lingering single-factor authentication issues, and cyber risk quantification;
- The recent surge in OT attacks and how they reflect the convergence of political and criminal cyberthreats, the emergence of new ICS malware and growing risks to critical infrastructure.
The ISMG Editors’ Panel runs weekly. Don’t miss our previous installments, including the Feb. 28 edition on Black Basta’s downfall and the Mar. 7 edition on whether U.S. cyber pause on Russia is a strategic risk.