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    Palo Alto Networks Stock Falls After Announcing $25 Billion CyberArk Deal

    2025-07-30

    CNBC: CyberArk shareholders, for each of their shares, will get $45 cash and 2.2005 shares of Palo Alto. The deal is expected to close during Palo Alto Networks’ fiscal 2026.

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    Banks Struggle to Adopt Generative AI as Cybersecurity Concerns Linger

    2025-07-29

    Korea Times: Commercial lenders are finding it difficult to fully integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into their financial services, impeded by the current regulation that prohibits the use of full, unencrypted personal credit information, market watchers said.

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    Know Your Breach: Ahold Delhaize

    The Target: Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retail chains. The multinational retailer and wholesale company operates over 9,400 local stores across Europe, the United States, and Indonesia, employing more than 393,000 people and serving approximately 60 million customers each week in-store and online.

    The Take: The company added that the stolen items vary for each affected individual and that the stolen documents contain a combination of personal information such as name, contact information, financial account information, health information and employment-related information.

    The Vector: In a filing with Maine's Attorney General, the retail giant revealed that the attackers behind the November breach stole the data of 2,242,521 individuals after gaining access to the company's internal U.S. business systems on November 6, 2024.

    This breach is critical reminder that zero-day exploits do happen, and furthermore that patching software in a timely, effective manner is a key component of ensuring customer data is protected. Ensuring third-party vendors are deploying patches and fixes in accordance with a firm’s cybersecurity policy is an important step in an overall robust security posture.

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    Is AI Here to Take or Redefine Your Cybersecurity Role?

    2025-07-21

    CSO Online: That headline ran atop a CSO story published in 2016. Nine years later, the prediction feels closer to coming true — with questions around jobs being replaced or redefined and whether cybersecurity pros should be worried taking on greater nuance, and still hanging in the balance.

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    Cybersecurity Funding Surged Higher In Q2

    2025-07-16

    Crunchbase: Cybersecurity was a hot area for venture investment in the first half of 2025, with total funding to the space hitting its highest level in three years.

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    Nautic Partners Completes Acquisition of AccessIT Group in Partnership with Management

    2025-07-15

    Business Wire: Nautic Partners, LLC (“Nautic”) is pleased to announce that, in partnership with management, it has closed the acquisition of AccessIT Group, Inc. (“AccessIT”) as a new platform investment. 

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    Ransomware Attack Triggers Widespread Outage at Ingram Micro

    2025-07-07

    Dark Reading: Ingram Micro, one of the world's largest IT distributors, has confirmed it suffered a ransomware attack that sparked a worldwide outage of its services.

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    Ransomware Reshaped How Cyber Insurers Perform Security Assessments

    2025-07-01

    Dark Reading: The ransomware scourge has forced cyber insurers to re-examine how they use security assessments. While the threat has been around for years, it's only fairly recently that cybercriminals realized how profitable ransomware attacks could be. 

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    Global Cybersecurity Market to Worth Over US$ 723.8 Billion By 2033

    2025-06-30

    GlobeNewswire: The global cybersecurity market was valued at US$ 233.4 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach US$ 723.8 billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 13.40% during the forecast period.

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    More Than Half of Cybersecurity Professionals Told to Conceal Breaches, Survey Claims

    2025-06-25

    Tech Monitor: More than half of cybersecurity professionals globally, at 57.6%, have been pressured to keep security breaches undisclosed, according to a survey by Bitdefender.

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