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In the Wake of Solar Winds Compromise, CISA and NIST Issue Guidance for Preventing, Defending and Mitigating Software Supply Chain Attacks Thursday, May 20, 2021
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) jointly published a new resource as part of their ongoing efforts to promote awareness of, and help organizations defend against, supply chain risks. The publication,
Defending Against Software Supply Chain Attacks, provides recommendations for software customers and vendors as well as key steps for prevention, mitigation and resilience of software supply chain attacks.
Software supply chain attacks occur when a cyber threat actor infiltrates a software vendor’s network and employs malicious code to compromise the software before the vendor sends it to their customers. A software supply chain attack can occur at any phase of the supply chain, including design, development an
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A facial recognition payment system is demonstrated at a self-checkout machine in a Perekrestok supermarket in Moscow last week. Russia’s X5 group, the country’s leading food retailer, has announced the launch of a facial recognition payment system, the latest expansion of a technology that has sparked privacy and security concerns.
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At the very same time rapidly advancing technology is making it easier for companies to snatch and secretly sell our personal biometric information, such as our fingerprints, clueless Illinois lawmakers are trying to do away with one of the strongest privacy protection laws in the nation.
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What Lawyers Want Everyone to Know About AI Liability
There are more discussions about AI ethics and responsible AI these days, but companies need to be clear about potential AI liability issues.
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As artificial intelligence moves deeper into enterprises, companies have been responding with AI ethics principles and values and responsible AI initiatives. However, translating lofty ideals into something practical is difficult, mainly because it s something new that needs to be built into DataOps, MLOps, AIOps and DevOps pipelines.
There s a lot of talk about the need for transparent or explainable AI. However, less discussed is accountability, which is another ethical consideration. When something goes wrong with AI, who s to blame? Its creators, users, or those who authorized its use?
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This may be the year when the limitation of biometric capture goes national. Right now, companies using biometrics are driven by one state law, but others could soon join.
As limits on biometrics cascade forth from Illinois in private cases based on the state’s Biometric Information Protection Act (BIPA), other state legislatures have decided to place limits on the capture and use of biometric information. The private right of action and statutory damages offered by BIPA have made Illinois the experimental lab where U.S. companies learn what counts as a biometric program and what their limits on that program may be. Illinois may soon have company.