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From Pest Control to Cybersecurity: What CISOs Can Learn from Pestie

SecureWorld News

As I was spraying Pestiea DIY pest spray subscription servicearound my home this weekend (sun's out, spray gun's out), I was thinking about the correlation of this home perimeter defense to what CISOs and their teams do to keep their organizations secure. CISO takeaway: Effective cybersecurity isn't a generic solution.

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Ghost Ransomware a Persistent Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure

SecureWorld News

Experts warn that organizations must act decisively to protect against this growing threat by implementing Zero Trust architectures, patching vulnerabilities, and strengthening identity security. This highlights the importance of least-privilege access models and Just-in-Time (JIT) access controls to limit attack surfaces.

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Battling Burnout: A Growing Concern for CISOs and Security Professionals

SecureWorld News

As defenders of digital assets, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and cybersecurity professionals face immense pressure, often leading to burnout. Key findings from the report include: 90% of CISOs are concerned about stress, fatigue, or burnout affecting their team's well-being.

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NEW TECH: Will ‘Secure Access Service Edge’ — SASE — Be the Answer to Secure Connectivity?

The Last Watchdog

One new approach that is showing a lot of promise cropped up in late 2019. For instance, SD-WAN solutions have generally lacked threat prevention capacities that CISOs today look for in cybersecurity solutions, Greenfield observes. It’s called Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE , as coined by research firm Gartner.

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SPOTLIGHT: Women in Cybersecurity

McAfee

The RSA Conference USA 2019 held in San Francisco — which is the world’s largest cybersecurity event with more than 40,000 people and 740 speakers — is a decent measuring stick for representation of women in this field. Director/CISO of IT Risk Management. Director/CISO of IT Risk Management at Ulta Beauty located in Bolingbrook, IL.

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Cisco Secure Endpoint Shines in the 2022 MITRE® Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation

Cisco Security

For example, between 2019 and 2020, Wizard Spider, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal group, extorted $61 million from ransomware attacks, including notable attacks that included Universal Healthcare System Hospitals, and state government administrative offices in both Georgia and Florida. Scenario 2: Sandworm. Protection Test.

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My 2020 Predictions Revisited: What Worked, What Didn't

Duo's Security Blog

However, a Google search turned up such proclamations for 2018, 2019, 2020, and even 2021. User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) made significant strides as one way of determining trust in a zero-trust architecture. The other prediction I made was passwordless authentication being on the security roadmap in 2020. Well, it was.