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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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SPOTLIGHT: Women in Cybersecurity

McAfee

There are new and expanding opportunities for women’s participation in cybersecurity globally as women are present in greater numbers in leadership. 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.

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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 two roles don’t overlap cleanly and must be separate in order to govern cybersecurity effectively. The modern CISO is more than “IT security.” See: [link] ).

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5 Cyber Trends to Expect in 2024

NetSpi Executives

The past year certainly had no shortage of cybersecurity firsts. As we look toward 2024, some aspects will remain the same, such as persistent ransomware and cloud-based attacks, as well as AI creating a larger attack vector for cybercriminals. has made strides in cybersecurity legislation and guidance in 2023.

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

The Last Watchdog

In response, well over two-thirds say they’ll spend more on cybersecurity. But the challenges are accumulating on multiple fronts: •Cloud computing. One-half of corporate data is now stored in the cloud. Of course, data protection requires effective cybersecurity solutions. Proliferating cyber challenges.

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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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