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Grandson of FISMA: Why We Desperately Need New Cybsersecurity Legislation from the 117th Congress

Cisco Security

On August 3, 2021, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) released a report entitled “Federal Cybersecurity: America’s Data Still at Risk.”. The Risk Management Framework doesn’t take into account that the human is the new perimeter of the enterprise. See: [link] ). The modern CISO is more than “IT security.”

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Protecting your Customers and Brand in 2022: Are you doing enough?

Jane Frankland

It’s a roller coaster of a time to lead, as CIOs, CISOs and CTOs are having to deal with more users, data, devices, technologies, connectivity, mobility, regulations, risks, and threats than they care to. Cyber risks top worldwide business concerns in 2022. The digital skills gap comes at a cost. Women can enable this.

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Machine Identities, Human Identities, and the Risks They Pose

Security Boulevard

Machine Identities, Human Identities, and the Risks They Pose. That’s the highest volume of attempts spotted in a single month since APWG first initiated its reporting program back in 2004. Notwithstanding the risks discussed above, human identities still pose less of a concern than machine identities. brooke.crothers.

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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

Threat actors simply seek out the endless fresh attack vectors arising as an unintended consequence of digital transformation. I first wrote about criminal botnets at USA TODAY in 2004. ” Shadow risks Another thing about bots, they do what they’re told — for as long as they’re told to do it.

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CyberArk Named an Overall Privileged Access Management Leader by KuppingerCole Analysts in 2021 Leadership Compass Report

CyberSecurity Insiders

According to the KuppingerCole report, “the demands of digital transformation and wholesale structural changes to IT architecture have intensified interest in PAM software and applications – across all market sectors.”. 1 – KuppingerCole Analysts 2021 “Leadership Compass: Privileged Access Management,” by Paul Fisher, August 2021.

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Top Database Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Launched in 2004 in Bedford, Massachusetts, EDB specializes in software solutions for the open source relational database management system (RDBMS), PostgreSQL. Through a portfolio of real-time protection and risk management products, Imperva is consistently listed as a top vendor. EnterpriseDB. Microsoft Azure.

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What is the Future for Women in Cybersecurity in 2021?

Jane Frankland

If you look to (ISC)2 and their Workforce Study, they’ll tell you that for the first time since they started tracking the cybersecurity workforce numbers in 2004, they’ve seen a decrease in the skills gap – from 4.07 28% across all digital sectors), falling to 3% in senior roles. million in 2019 to 3.12 million in 2020.