An Inside Look at the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition

Our Splunk .conf26 recap covers AI in the SOC, keeping humans in the loop, AI governance and token costs, federated search, and AI as a security control plane.

Ransomware no longer just locks up systems. Attackers now steal sensitive data and threaten to leak it, and they increasingly reach banks through trusted third-party vendors instead of the bank's own network. Here's how the threat has changed, why regional banks are exposed, and seven steps to reduce the risk.