eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2023

The LockBit threat group is the biggest source of ransomware and RaaS attacks, accounting for 44% of successful ransomware attacks in 2022, according to Trustwave SpiderLabs in a new report released today. “All of this means cyber risk continues to escalate and that CISOs need to be just as nimble and methodical as the adversary.”.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2022

“We combine human ingenuity from our 400 global offensive security professionals with our innovative technology platforms – a unique combination that ensures quality, consistency, transparency, accountability, and efficiency across all NetSPI assessments,” said Aaron Shilts, CEO, NetSPI. Arctic Wolf.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Facebook parent Meta has disciplined or fired at least 25 workers for allegedly hacking into user accounts. Meta Security Guards Hacked Facebook Users appeared first on Security Boulevard. The post Oops!

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 7, 2022

ImmuniWeb founder Ilia Kolochenko said the case is part of a broader global trend of holding cybersecurity executives accountable for breaches at their companies. “In In the future, we will likely see more CISOs, DPOs and board members civilly liable or even face criminal prosecution for security or privacy incidents,” he said.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 19, 2023

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 discussed how the boundaries between in-company and out-of-company IT infrastructure have become increasingly blurred making network security more challenging than ever.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Network security: Includes Direct Connect (DC) private and public interfaces; DMZ, VPC, and VNet endpoints; transit gateways; load balancers; and DNS. Ensure that the processes exist to make this cloud application security process evergreen.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2020

Previously, I was the director in charge of all cybersecurity for a midsize accounting firm, helping clients with identity access management and a host of other cyber concerns. I have spent a good majority of my career in accounting firms helping clients.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2022

To help you improve your organizational communications security, consider the following tips: Implement network security controls. Network security should be managed and controlled to protect your organization from threats that may originate externally or internally. instant messaging, SMS, chat, etc.).

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Sponsored by CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the.gov domain comes with several key security benefits: MFA is enforced on all accounts in the.gov registrar, and user accounts cannot use passwords that have been found in known data breaches. Consider outsourcing.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Business operators continue to expose themselves to Microsoft Exchange exploits and other damaging attacks due to a lack of multi-factor authentication, access control, patch management and other essential network security elements that they view as costly inconveniences that slow down productivity. I will explain the chaos later.”.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

Eclypsium, for one, does not use SolarWinds; but the device security company immediately notified customers of steps it was taking to ensure its own infrastructure and that of its partners was secure, said Eclypsium CISO Steve Mancini.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

New threats like APT-hackers-for-hire offering their services to the highest bidder pose particular dangers to small and mid-sized organizations, which now must update their threat models and security policies to respond. Here are some steps they can take to improve security: Know the organization’s network and assets.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 29, 2021

Breaking the Isolation: Cross-Account AWS Vulnerabilities. Multiple AWS services were found to be vulnerable to a new cross-account vulnerability class. James Coote | Senior Consultant, F-Secure Consulting. Alfie Champion | Senior Consultant, F-Secure Consulting. Tracks : Network Security, Defense.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With that, evidence shows, comes a far brighter spotlight on the role of the chief information security officer. While technically part of the c-suite, CISOs historically received less attention within a company than your average CEO or chief financial officer. Our profile is certainly getting higher. Failure to communicate.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Government actions will increase: Expect more government regulations, state-sponsored cyberattacks, and increased documentation required to protect CISOs. Christine Bejerasco, CISO of WithSecure , expands that “in the physical dimension, poisoning the well could impact communities in the area.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In case you want to train your employees, you may need to use a company account to be able to set scheduled lessons for your staff. to $199 for business accounts. This course covers a broad range of security topics, explaining it with a simple language. But it works only for individual users.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 12, 2023

This document assumes that organizations that fail to meet the update standard due to lack of resources will not hold their IT Department accountable when overworked or overloaded. Broader is always better to control risks, but can be more costly.] Vulnerability Management Policy & Procedure A.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

No wonder this threat keeps our client’s CISO and security teams up at night. Network Security: Firewall A firewall is your first line of defense or your computer network gatekeepers. 2FA requires both email and mobile phone to get access to an account.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Encourage your key cyber professionals to develop first-rate security awareness training materials for employees and executive staff. In the event of the Ransomware assault, the G Suite administrator will receive a notification about the incident either via e-mail or by Slack.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 22, 2021

. “For more than a year, most corporate offices have stood mostly abandoned as employees continued to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Deepen Desai, chief information security officer (CISO) at Zscaler, said in a statement. Enterprises accounted for 28 percent, followed by healthcare devices at 8 percent.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

They violated our password policies and they posted that password… on their own private GitHub account. As soon as it was identified and brought to the attention of my security team, they took that down.” It won’t, and yet we need to be secure despite that.”. We need more CEO accountability and less victim-blaming.”.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 29, 2021

The good news is that there is a very powerful, proven tool that can help companies decipher complex networking security relationships. 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. Visualizing dependencies.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Here at Cisco, we like to celebrate people in cybersecurity industry who are leading the fight against bad actors as well as those creating a secure culture for organizations and the people within them. This month, we interviewed Esmond Kane, CISO of Steward Health Care. Esmond Kane is Cisco’s CISO of the month.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 18, 2021

Additionally, as mentioned above, attackers now take the time to search for and destroy backups, which also involves network recon patterns that NAND can detect. Having your business unable to operate because you missed a ransomware attack is a career-limiting challenge for every CISO. It’s a predictable story.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Last week’s RSA Conference covered a litany of network security vulnerabilities, from developing more robust tokenization policies and to addressing UEFI-based attacks, and non-endpoint attack vectors. As of now, the information security industry is at the outset of implementing SBOM for software products.

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SC Magazine

MAY 3, 2021

said Dan Meacham, vice president of global security and corporate operations and CSO/CISO at film production company Legendary Entertainment. Being introduced to the account manager as well… is very helpful to us to really understand what the personalities are,” he added. Moreover, a list of references can be very useful.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

However, given the hybrid nature of the enterprise IT environment, organizations often face all the complexities of a zero trust security model without any of the benefits, even after a substantial investment in security tools and skilled staff. . Implicit trust doesn’t exist in zero trust . By removing implicit trust, zero trust?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

.” By multiplexing virtualized and independent logical networks on a physical network, organizations can isolate network segments to specific client verticals. There are no secure implementation guides or standards for network operators. Also Read: Top Enterprise Network Security Tools for 2021.

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Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Bad Bots (fake account creation, account takeovers, scraping, account management, and in-product abuse, etc.) which already account for 73% of Internet traffic will surge. This shift will promote transparency and accountability, eliminating any potential cover-ups or oversight.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

We had a lot of manual processes, people creating accounts manually,” he explained. We really needed to ensure that we were able to support our employee population, and access to critical applications, in a secure manner. ,” said fellow panelist Tom Malta, head of IAM at the Navy Federal Credit Union. “It

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. The teens also took over Twitter accounts of several cryptocurrency companies regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). W e're from the Help Desk and are here to help.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cyber Observer’s partnership with Cisco enables CISOs to manage and monitor their cybersecurity eco-system posture. Obsidian protects business-critical SaaS applications against account compromise, insider threats, data leaks, and bad posture. Monitor activity across all SaaS accounts in a single console. Read more here.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2022

Yes, denial of service attacks, high-profile incidents like account takeover, and other cybersecurity issues will happen. Security breaches cause foreseeable financial damage to the organization. In many cases, more significant than the amount spent on combined network security, cloud security, and artificial intelligence.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Abnormal Security Cloud email security 2019 Private Sqreen Application security 2019 Acquired: Datadog Demisto SOAR 2018 Acquired by PAN Skyhigh Cloud security 2012 Acquired: McAfee OpenDNS Internet security 2009 Acquired: Cisco Palo Alto Networks Cloud and network security 2006 NYSE: PANW.

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