CSO Magazine

APRIL 25, 2022

The SolarWinds compromise of 2020 had a global impact and garnered the resources of both public and private sectors in an all-hands-on-deck remediation effort. The event also had a deleterious effect on the SolarWinds stock price. These two events, were, predictably, followed by a bevy of civil lawsuits.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 30, 2024

and its Chief CISO, Timothy G. The SEC's lawsuit against SolarWinds and Brown stemmed from the massive cyberattack that was discovered in December 2020. The case highlights the critical role of CISOs and other cybersecurity leaders in maintaining transparent and effective security practices.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Nearly half of CISOs will change jobs by 2025 due to stress caused by the risk of being breached while trying to retain staff, according to the Gartner report, Predicts 2023: Cybersecurity Industry Focuses on the Human Deal. Although burnout is nothing new, it did become more visible and common during and after COVID-19.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

In April 2020, the FCC voted to open 6 GHz for unlicensed use , meaning that electrical consumer products such as phones, tablets, laptops, and routers could benefit from the enhanced Wi-Fi performance.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Florida State University CISO Bill Hunkapiller wouldn’t let Covid derail his plans to improve the university’s resiliency capabilities. He refined his plans through 2020 and then, this year, implemented its wide-reaching recommendations to ensure his institution could handle even better whatever emergency came next.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2022

Security exec Chad Kliewer had heard the initial reports of the SolarWinds attack as news about it broke in December 2020, sympathetic to those companies first named as victims of the hack. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Enterprise spending on cybersecurity is expected to hold steady in 2022, as studies show that nearly all CISOs are getting a budget increase or level funding in the new year—only a small fraction of security chiefs will see their budgets fall. To read this article in full, please click here

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 16, 2022

The research was compiled by Cider Security along with experts from Netflix, Atlassian, Mozilla, Lemonade Insurance, Rapid7, Databricks, and the former CISOs of Twitter and LivePerson. You can access the full research report here. . About Cider Security . For more information, visit www.cidersecurity.io/. . Press Contact.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 28, 2022

There’s also the increase in the sheer volume of cyber attacks to contend with; between July 2020 and June 2021, there was a 1,070% increase in ransomware attacks alone. [1] 1] For Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), this has created a variety of new challenges to contend with.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 6, 2022

Since its inception in 2020, Zoom’s private bug bounty program has awarded $2.4 The videoconferencing platform’s foray into the bug bounty sphere has brought early success, but how does it calculate ROI for such an undertaking, and what lessons can CISOs learn when it comes to selling bug bounty concepts to senior management?

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 21, 2022

Data that S&P Global Market Intelligence compiled last November showed there were 151 M&A cybersecurity deals in the first three quarters of 2021 alone compared to 94 over the same period in 2020, 88 in 2019, and 80 in 2018. Many companies secured massive venture capital (VC) investments from private equity firms.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 28, 2020

In this Spotlight Podcast, sponsored by RSA, we take on the question of securing the 2020 Presidential election. In this Spotlight Podcast, sponsored by RSA, we take on the question of securing the 2020 Presidential election. Also joining us: Sam Curry, the CSO of Cybereason. Read the whole entry. »

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SecureWorld News

MAY 30, 2023

Our Controls Framework was maybe the most important investment of it all," Jamil Farshchi, CISO at Equifax, said in a recent LinkedIn post. Farshchi was brought in by Equifax in February 2018 as EVP and CISO to help clean up the company's cybersecurity posture and damaged reputation. into our security transformation. It's interactive.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In 2020, we saw cybersecurity move from a technical problem to become a business enabler. While in past years, InfoSec was previously the focus and CISOs were the norm – we’re moving to a new cybersecurity world order that expands the role of the CISO to a CSO (Chief Security Officer).

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McAfee

JUNE 21, 2021

A CISO or CSO should be able to look at a single screen and understand in minutes how well protected they are against potential threats. In fact, Gartner’s 2020 CISO Effectiveness Survey found that 78% of CISOs have 16 or more tools in their cybersecurity vendor portfolio, while 12% have a whopping 46 or more.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 31, 2021

In fact, 77% of CISOs said it was challenging to orchestrate alerts between products from multiple security vendors, according to Cisco’s 2020 Cybersecurity Benchmark Study. The pandemic further complicated the CISO’s role with the push to cloud services for a widely distributed workforce.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

The “people problem” is a phrase I heard in many different occasions when I met with IT managers (CISO, CSO, CIOs), many in leading research labs, national security establishments, and such. The worst is yet to come and 2021 might, unfortunately, see even bigger attacks realized. What is the “people problem” of cyber security? .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 24, 2021

CISO Panel on Addressing Insider Risk. This year again, the event expects to draw security professionals from across the globe world, including: C-suite executives focused on information security, security, risk and compliance (CISO, CSO, CRO, CCO). Insider Risk, insider threat or insider trust functional leaders.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In July 2020, we saw key high-profile Twitter accounts compromised. It is not only the CISO, CSO or CIO’s responsibility to care and do the right thing. For instance, in August 2020, a former Uber company executive was criminally prosecuted for not disclosing a data breach back in 2016.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In August 2021, Dr James Ransome -- Veteran CISO, CSO, CPSO and Author -- hosted a fireside chat at FuzzCon 2021. Maccherone offered additional color by referencing a 2020 study he conducted within Comcast. He studied how Comcast’s security training programs correlated with risk reduction outcomes.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Earlier this week, Chris DeRusha, federal CISO and deputy national cyber director in the White House, announced the release of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance to ensure federal agencies rely only on software that has been built following standard cybersecurity practices. To read this article in full, please click here

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Tyler Farrar ,CISO, Exabeam. Remote work unexpectedly became the norm in 2020, and as we close out 2021, the hybrid work model may be here to stay for decades to come. Wes Spencer, VP, External CSO, ConnectWise. Let’s admit it. Cybersecurity feels like a losing game. Breaches happen everywhere we look.

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