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Security pros need to look beyond user education to find and disarm fraudulent actors. [TechWeb]( Follow Dark Reading: [RSS]( February 11, 2023 LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY [5 Ways to Survive Scam Season — or Rather, Tax Season]( Security pros need to look beyond user education to find and disarm fraudulent actors. [Name That Edge Toon: For the Birds]( Come up with a clever caption, and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card. [Gigamon Exits NDR Market, Sells ThreatInsight Business to Fortinet]( Omdia has learned that Gigamon sold its ThreatInsight NDR business to Fortinet for approximately $31 million. The deal highlights what may be a pivot point for the NDR market. [How Do Playbooks Help CISOs Improve SecOps?]( Extended detection and response (XDR) solutions have evolved to offer automated tools, such as playbooks, that enhance context and response. [Cloud Apps Still Demand Way More Privileges Than They Use]( Hackers can't steal a credential that doesn't exist. [Keeping KillNet at Bay: Use the IP Address Blocklist]( Security teams can use a blocklist containing tens of thousands of proxy IP addresses used by the pro-Russian hacktivist group to defend their organizations from DDoS attacks. [Google Cloud Connects Chronicle to Health ISAC Feed]( Members of the Health-ISAC can ingest threat indicators directly into Chronicle to investigate whether the threat is present in their environment. [Why Some Cloud Services Vulnerabilities Are So Hard to Fix]( Five months after AWS customers were alerted about three vulnerabilities, nearly none had plugged the holes. The reasons why underline a need for change. [MORE NEWS /]( [MORE COMMENTARY]( HOT TOPICS [Make Developers the Driver of Software Security Excellence]( Those who are wrangling code every day could fuel a genuinely transformational approach to security — if they are adequately upskilled. [What CISOs Can Do About Brand Impersonation Scam Sites]( Apply these nine tips to proactively fight fraudulent websites that use your brand to rip people off. [7 Use Cases for Distributed Cloud Environments]( As infrastructure has grown more complex, the need to effectively manage it has grown, too – particularly for applications and APIs. [MORE]( EDITORS' CHOICE [Why CISOs Should Care About Brand Impersonation Scam Sites]( Enterprises often don't know whose responsibility it is to monitor for spoofed brand sites and scams that steal customers' trust, money, and personally identifiable information. FROM THE NEWS DESK [7 Critical Cloud Threats Facing the Enterprise in 2023]( From shadow data to misconfigurations, and overpermissioning to multicloud sprawl, Dark Reading's cloud security slideshow helps security pros understand the threat horizon. WEBINARS - [Deciphering the Hype Around XDR]( Security teams are increasingly being asked about the organization's Extended Detection and Response capabilities. There is still a lot of confusion and misunderstanding about XDR and what it can accomplish. XDR goes beyond endpoint monitoring and detection, while extending visibility ... - [Rethinking Authentication: MFA, Passwordless, Certificates, and More]( Today's data protection requires stronger, better authentication. What does going beyond passwords look like? What are some of the latest strategies around authentication and authorization? What is continuous authentication and what would it look like in your organization? What kind ... 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