ISMG Editors: Lack of MFA Keeps Fueling Cloud Data Breaches

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In this week's panel, four ISMG editors discussed how basic security failures are still opening the door to major breaches, how researchers are rethinking data protection in the age of AI and the implications of robots with artificial intelligence patrolling national borders.

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The panelists - Anna Delaney, executive director, productions; Mathew Schwartz, executive editor, DataBreachToday and Europe; Rashmi Ramesh, senior associate editor; and Tony Morbin, executive news editor, EU - discussed:

• How the lack of enforced multifactor authentication combined with information-stealing malware are helping attackers are exploit cloud collaboration services, leading to large-scale data breaches that could have been prevented with basic security controls;
• A new AI security defense that deliberately poisons knowledge graphs with believable false data so that, if stolen, the ...