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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.

QNAP has published a security advisory to address a vulnerability in QNAP products.

First Reported: Sunday, 12 Nov 2023 10:35:00Status: GOINGRegion: 4

Affected country: United Republic of Tanzania
Glide: FL-2023-000241-TZA
Heavy rainfall has been affecting northern Tanzania, in particular the Arusha Region, bordering with southern Kenya since late October, causing floods, flash floods and rivers overflow that have resulted casualties and damage. Media report, as of 16 November, ten fatalities, approximately 90 displaced families and a number of damaged houses and bridges across the Arusha District, Arusha Region. The worst affected villages and neighbourhoods in Arusha District are Muriet, Terrat, Elerai, Morombo, Lolovono and Ngarenaro. Over the next 24 hours, more heavy rainfall with locally very heavy rainfall is forecast over most of the country. (ECHO, 16 Nov 2023)
The latest update received from local government, shared on 13 November, reported more than 10,090 people, or 2,018 households suffered floods and landslide are affected with 12 deaths reported, 1,245 houses completely destroyed, and 1,074 latrines collapsed. The figures are likely to increase given the difficult access to most of the affected areas due to water levels. People in these affected areas have been evacuated to earlier mapped out safer areas. However, they have limited access to basic services. (IFRC, 23 Nov 2023)

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.

A retailer’s top priority is to keep its employees and customers safe. Technology is one tool that helps retailers mitigate retail violence. 

Artificial intelligence has taken physical security from the reactive to the proactive era, especially in video surveillance and analytics.