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As is the case with any industry, more technology means more sensitive data stored in online environments, making safeguarding sensitive data, and maintaining privacy more of a priority than ever. As students and teachers increasingly rely on education-specific devices and applications, those users and organizations become more of a target for hackers. 

New research recently released reveals an increase in malicious code disguised as Python obfuscation packages. 

In this edition of Security’s Top 5 from Security magazine, we showcase the top stories and new developments from across the security industry throughout October.

How can we concretely address the workforce challenges facing the cybersecurity industry? In this column, Pam Nigro focuses on DEI, career development and AI.

According to a report, 74% of IT and security decision makers said their organization’s IT or security budget increased compared to the year prior.

A recent BrandShield survey of chief information security officers (CISOs) found that CISOs reported an average loss of $2.1M USD per cyberattack.

Diana Lovati was hired as the first CISO at True Anomaly. Lovati has experience with risk management, compliance, IT and data protection.

As cyber attacks continue and layoffs and economic uncertainty remains, the greater the need for strong, modern identity management and governance.

Open AI announced that periodic outages across its popular AI chatbot ChatGPT were due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack.

A new report highlights downtime due to a successful application DDoS attack costs organizations an average of $6,130 per minute.