Litigation Initiated by the US FTC Leads to Settlement Restricting Data Broker The Federal Trade Commission has banned an Idaho-based data broker from selling sensitive location data gathered from "hundreds of millions" of individuals' mobile devices without their knowledge or consent. The proposed order ends several years of legal sparring between Kochava and the FTC.
Critical Infrastructure Operators Urged to Fortify Against Nation-State Attacks The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency launched CI Fortify, urging critical infrastructure operators to adopt isolation and rapid recovery capabilities to maintain essential services under cyberattacks, amid warnings that nation-state actors are already embedded in operational systems.
Security Leaders Face Gaps, Not in Their Org Charts, But in Their Team's Skills Concerns about the skills and capabilities of cybersecurity teams have for the first time overtaken worries about headcount and unfilled vacancies among CISOs, according to a new SANS survey.
BlueVoyant Seeks to Expand Beyond MDR Clients Into Firms With Mature In-House SOCs BlueVoyant named John Hernandez - the former leader of Quest's Microsoft security business - as its next CEO to drive an agentic AI SaaS platform that expands the vendor beyond managed services and helps customers accelerate detection, response and supply-chain risk management.