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NEW TECH SNAPSHOT: The role of ‘MSSPs’ in helping businesses manage cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

The new normal CISOs face today is something of a nightmare. They must take into account a widely scattered workforce and somehow comprehensively mitigate new and evolving cyber threats. Network security has been radically altered, two-plus years into the global pandemic. Criminal hacking collectives are thriving, more than ever.

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

Cisco Security

Further to the topic of governance, FISMA decided to subordinate the CISO to the CIO, which is an organizational design no longer in favor among enterprises throughout the Fortune 500 and Global 2000. The modern CISO is more than “IT security.” He has also serviced as the CISO of Leonardo DRS and Cubic Global Defense.

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5 Cyber Trends to Expect in 2024

NetSpi Executives

Nabil Hannan Field CISO “We’re still facing a deficit of cybersecurity professionals globally. Karl Fosaaen VP of Research “Across industries, even with workloads shifting to the cloud, organizations suffer from technical debt and improper IT team training – causing poorly implemented and architected cloud migration strategies.

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SPOTLIGHT: Women in Cybersecurity

McAfee

Forrester also predicts that the number of women CISOs at Fortune 500 companies will rise to 20 percent in 2019 , compared with 13 percent in 2017. Director/CISO of IT Risk Management. Director/CISO of IT Risk Management at Ulta Beauty located in Bolingbrook, IL. Alexandra holds a B.S. Diane Brown. Ulta Beauty.

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MY TAKE: As network perimeters shift and ecosystems blend, the role of MSSPs solidifies

The Last Watchdog

I had the chance to discuss this with Shinichi Yokohama, NTT Global CISO and John Petrie, Counselor to the NTT Global CISO, at RSA Conference 2023. We must protect the cloud, and, in some cases, we must protect on-prem systems that aren’t ever going to be in the cloud, as well. And that’s no small task.

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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging best practices and an open standard to protect corporate data

The Last Watchdog

Two-thirds of the global population will be protected by privacy regulations by 2023, and 70% of organizations say such regulations make cloud migrations and analytics more difficult. It underlies organizational accountability and is necessary to identify threats and uncover deficiencies. Outmoded cyber solutions.

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Black Hat insights: How Sonrai Security uses graph analytics to visualize, mitigate cloud exposures

The Last Watchdog

With Black Hat USA 2021 just around the corner, I had a deep discussion about this with Eric Kedrosky, CISO and Director of Cloud Research at Sonrai Security. The good news is that there is a very powerful, proven tool that can help companies decipher complex networking security relationships. Visualizing dependencies.

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