Access Point: Weekly News Roundup For IT Executives – July 19, 2024

Access Point is a weekly roundup of major tech news for IT executives on the go. This edition covers July 15-July 19.

In this week's news for IT executives:

Massive IT Outage Hits Airlines, Hospitals And Banks Around The Globe

The disruption was caused by a CrowdStrike Falcon update. CrowdStrike Falcon is a widely used agent-based cybersecurity platform designed to protect endpoints and cloud workloads. Unfortunately, in this case it brought them down.

Kaspersky Exiting US Market After Ban: What To Know If You're Running Its Software

MES Computing spoke with two cybersecurity experts after the U.S. ban was announced about what midmarket IT organizations with the vendor's software in their organizations should do next.

Challenges and Benefits Of Going Passwordless For Midmarket Organizations

Resource-strapped IT departments at mid-sized organizations may find implementing passwordless solutions complex and labor intensive especially when integrating the technology with legacy applications.

The 2024 MES Midmarket 100: Top Companies Serving The Midmarket

The MES Midmarket 100 is MES Computing's prestigious annual list recognizing forward-thinking technology vendors and service providers whose offerings support the growth and innovation of midmarket organizations.

Protect AI Releases 'Bug Bounty' Report On July Vulnerabilities

The vulnerabilities involve tools used to build machine language models that fuel artificial intelligence applications.

Malicious Python Packages Found Exfiltrating User Data To Telegram Bot

Researchers at security vendor Checkmarx have uncovered an operation, apparently based in Iraq, that uses malware hosted on the Python repository PyPI to search for files on the victim's device and exfiltrate them to a Telegram bot.