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  With new CVEs and emerging threats making headlines daily, it’s easy to get distracted by less public risks that may be critical to your business. But most of those newsworthy vulnerabilities won’t affect your business, and they can often distract security teams from doing their due diligence to lock down other issues affecting the attack surface. But just because a vulnerability isn’t glamorous enough to hit the headlines, doesn’t mean it doesn’t pose a serious risk to your business . As we’ve been working alongside clients with our Continuous Attack Surface Testing (CAST) offering, we’ve seen a lot of issues that initially seem minor but, upon further investigation, actually present a major risk to our clients. These issues would be missed by scanners because they require real human intervention to analyze and determine how an attacker could use them to pivot deeper into your networks. Scanners are often pointed at targets, pounding them for every CVE under the sun, b...

  Aflac CEO Dan Amos joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss inflation, hedging risks, the labor market, and the outlook for insurance stocks. Video Transcript BRIAN SOZZI:  Not every stock in the market has fallen on hard times. Shares of insurance giant Aflac are down slightly on the year, while the S&P 500 has given up about 16%. Analysts credit the relative outperformance to the general stability of the insurance industry, Aflac's strong cash position, and the steady hand of our next guest. Dan Amos is the longtime CEO of Aflac and joins us now. Dan good to see you, I see got a feathery friend sitting there right next to you, that Aflac duck. DAN AMOS:  I do, I do. God bless him. BRIAN SOZZI:  It's a good partner to have in life. But let me ask you this-- the economic cycle is in fact, changing. And it's changing rapidly. What changes are you seeing in your business ? DAN AMOS:  Well, we have an enormous cash flow. And when you have inflation, of course, in...

  How ‘I quit' is leading to 'I, Robot' Last week, two separate but related labor market themes caught my attention. After Thursday’s news that employees walking off the job hit yet another record in September, a report from Reuters showed that North American companies added a record number of robots this year to bolster assembly lines, in a bid to alleviate the well-chronicled labor crunch (a hat tip on this article goes to economic commentator James Pethokoukis, who runs one of my favorite reads on the global economy). Citing data from the Association for Advancing Automation , Reuters pointed out that industrial firms rang up nearly $1.5 billion worth of robots (29,000 to be exact) — a whopping 37% more than the comparable period in 2020. Separately, Google Cloud research in June showed that two-thirds of manufacturers using artificial intelligence (AI) are relying more heavily on it. The Morning Brief has ruminated about the impact of the labor sh...

  Whether you need life insurance depends on your family situation and financial obligations, as well as your stage in life. For people whose families could meet their financial obligations if one of the breadwinners weren’t around, insurance probably isn’t essential. But, for people who have a small nest egg and small children, it just might be essential. Life insurance is a cornerstone of financial security,” said Brittany Parisi, a life insurance agent for digital life insurance company Bestow. “While no one wants to think about a scenario where they might not be around, it provides valuable peace of mind to know you have a plan in place no matter what happens.” Read on to determine whether life insurance belongs in your financial portfolio — and how much it costs. Questions To Ask To determine whether life insurance is right for you, here are some questions to ask yourself. Who Relies on My Income? “You may need life insurance if there are people in your life wh...