Cybersecurity Institute News Roundup 13 Jan 2025
Welcome to this week’s Cybersecurity Institute News Roundup, a weekly overview of the some of the most interesting news and articles that have caught our attention recently from across the cybersecurity industry. In this week’s roundup we In this week’s roundup we cover the steep growth in biometrics, the US Department of Defense’s program to improve AML efforts, cloud apps becoming a top target for enterprise phishing campaigns, Google’s AI “peak data” problem, mobile driver’s licences and digital identity adoption by US agencies, and expectations for the modern CISO.
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Trends in user experience, organizational compliance, and fraud mitigation are forecast to grow biometrics to $315B in revenues with an associated 5.6T transactions between 2024 and 2028:
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202501/biometric-transactions-to-generate-315b-by-2028-prism-project
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Citing current manual, reactive, and expensive anti-money laundering (AML) practices, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is considering a more algorithmic approach to AML aimed to cut the flow of funding threats to the country’s security:
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Despite increased employee security awareness training, enterprise users clicked on phishing links nearly three times more in 2024 than 2023, with threat actors focused on cloud apps such as Microsoft OneDrive where some victims place implicit trust:
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Google’s DeepMind reports using an approach known as inference-time compute to resolve AI’s “peak data” problem, unlocking future meteoric growth potential for and improvements to AI models:
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The Biden administration plans an executive order to promote mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) and digital identity adoption by federal agencies. The Social Security Administration may offer identity verification services, and pilots will test fraud alerts for public benefits. Currently issued in 15 states, mDL adoption is growing, supported by privacy assurances and legislative efforts, with potential for wider use in coming years:
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Today’s CISO is expected to move beyond just technology concerns to be able to transcend business strategy, operational efficiency, and cybersecurity:
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Be sure to share your thoughts on these stories in the comments and let us know what articles have caught your eye recently.
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