Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

How to Enhance Cyber Security Awareness and Cyber Intelligence Enterprise cyber security awareness and cyber risk management programs encircle a full range of actions required to protect corporate IT infrastructure and sensitive data. What are the benefits of cyber security awareness trainings?

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SC Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

In response, the non-profit has offered a glimpse into its work-in-progress “Accountability Framework,” designed to help relevant health care stakeholders take responsibility for keeping cyberspace secure by enforcing behavioral norms and also by understanding and rooting out the underlying causes when attacks do happen. “Too

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In response to continuing waves of data breaches and network disruptions, companies have made a concerted effort and poured substantial resources into promoting data security awareness among employees, suppliers and clients. Incorporate security education into corporate volunteer or mentoring programs.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 29, 2024

The risk is too great, and key business partnerships are required," said Amy Bogac , former CISO at The Clorox Company. "If If you are a CFO, COO, or supply chain leader, please engage with your security partner like your (professional) life depends on it." Director, Cyber Security, Acumatica, Inc., trillion annually. "

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 30, 2023

Seasoned CISOs/CSOs understand the importance of effectively communicating cyber risk and the need for investment in cybersecurity defense to the board of directors. To ensure cybersecurity becomes a strategic part of the corporate culture, it is crucial for CISOs to present the topic in a clear, concise, and compelling manner.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

We asked a few practitioners for their take on rising inflation and how it is making their jobs keeping their organizations secure more difficult—and what they are doing to try to combat these issues. "I Andrew Smeaton, CISO at Afiniti, says reassessment of cybersecurity programs and plans is necessary.

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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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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

The company’s investigation determined that social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, passport numbers and/or financial account numbers may have been accessed or acquired. In a notice issued to affected customers on July 9, Guess said the incident was first discovered on February 19.

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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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Notice Bored

JULY 4, 2022

I feel more confident about the underlying generic principles of risk, compliance, conformity, obligations, accountabilities, assurance and controls though, and have the breadth of work and life experience to appreciate the next point. The possibility of being held personally to account (perhaps even sacked or prosecuted!)

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SC Magazine

MARCH 12, 2021

of Proofpoint, says as companies shifted to work-from-home during the pandemic, security pros had to focus more on insider threats, sometimes caused by harried parents juggling work and family responsibilities. CISOs need to promptly identify risky behavior and determine whether that threat warrants additional research. Lucia Milic?,

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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.” Password hygiene should be part of employee training and cyber awareness training,” Carson continued.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Now CISOs and Security Awareness Managers have additional metrics that reveal if their programs are effective and help categorize actual threats. To develop our Phish Scale, we began by considering the primary elements that CISOs and training implementors use when selecting and customizing phishing training exercises.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 4, 2021

However, the fundamental starting point of any organisation’s security infrastructure must be a trained and aware workforce, who understand their responsibility in keeping business data safe. Oliver Paterson, Product Expert, VIPRE Security Awareness Training and Safesend , explains.

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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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Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2022

We should not be focused so much on the organization’s Return on investment or Return on asset around security spending; we should consider for a moment that with every significant security awareness training, every adaptive control, and every security policy only makes the task “of being hacked” even more expensive for the cybercriminals.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 27, 2023

” Still, Exabeam CISO Tyler Ferrar told eSecurity Planet by email that he’s hopeful the rules will benefit consumers too by encouraging better security. “This added layer of accountability can thus create a safer environment for consumers’ personal information.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

It has also placed more responsibility and decision-making power in the hands of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and called for more swift and earnest action to investigate breach incidents. I’d add that there is also a lack of accountability when it comes to cybersecurity breaches.

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SC Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Google made the announcement on World Password Day , in which Mark Risher, Google’s director of product management, identity and user security, pointed out in a blog that 66% of Americans admit to using the same password across multiple sites, which makes all those accounts vulnerable if any one fails. “We

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 12, 2022

“Historically, Russian state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors have used common but effective tactics – including spearphishing , brute force, and exploiting known vulnerabilities against accounts and networks with weak security – to gain initial access to target networks,” the agencies wrote in the alert.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 17, 2022

That was the case for a broadcast SecureWorld recently hosted with Mike Britton, CISO of Abnormal Security , and legendary investigative journalist Brian Krebs. In these types of collaborative platforms, like Slack for example, when some user account credentials get phished, someone else's credentials could be phished.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

‘Exposing that to the public internet is like allowing terrorists to direct air traffic control’ Sounil Yu, CISO for cybersecurity vendor JupiterOne, said that “It’s easy to lose sight of these applications without a good asset management program. This is laziness at its worst.”.

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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. Employee security awareness training.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2020

It's a common best practice among CISOs trying to get their employees invested in cybersecurity for the corporate network: make things personal. If you help an employee secure the personal accounts of their family and friends, good cyber practices can become a relevant concern that they learn to take seriously.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Suing the CISO: SolarWinds Fires Back. However, this is not just another nameless, faceless piece of litigation; this one specifically names the company's Chief Information Security Officer. A group of investors filed the suit which specifically calls out SolarWinds, its former CEO, and also Tim Brown, who is VP of Security and CISO.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google+ are commonly exploited to access user accounts. Once an account is compromised, hackers may attempt to impersonate me online or send emails pretending to come from trusted contacts. Whaling, spear, barrel, reverse social engineering, malware, ransomware, account compromise.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2022

They’re primarily aimed at children aged 13 and over, as that’s the age at which they can start signing up for social media accounts. Making the case for more dedicated security awareness roles. CISOs, CSOs and their fate: a Twitter thread. An excerpt from Mikko Hypponen’s new book, “If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 9, 2019

Alternatively, they can use a phishing attack to steal employees account credentials and abuse them to steal sensitive corporate and/or customer data. The question is: are organizations even aware of these and other risks posed by cloud apps? Measuring Organizations’ Risk Awareness. But that’s not for a lack of awareness.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Security Awareness Training from Advisera Advisera offers lots of tools like books, courses, and guidelines for those who want to know more about compliance standards and become security-aware. to $199 for business accounts. This course covers a broad range of security topics, explaining it with a simple language.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

At Forter, we’ve seen a marked uptick in Account Takeovers (ATO); a form of identity fraud in which a third-party steals credentials and / or gains access to user accounts. Many of those who are new to eCommerce have proven more likely to reuse passwords and less likely to follow security best practices. How can that be?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2019

The GDPR mandates that a business must inform EU DPAs very quickly (within 72 hours) and thoroughly of any security data breach involving European citizens. What you can do as a CISO – A risk-based approach to GDPR is key. Ensure privacy and security by design and by default. Prove accountability to regulators.

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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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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

No wonder this threat keeps our client’s CISO and security teams up at night. Authentication Security: Set Up Password Policy and Enable Two-Factor Verification Strong authentication practices prevent your system from unauthorized access, like brute-force attacks, password stuffing, and account hijacking.

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The Falcon's View

AUGUST 6, 2018

First and foremost, your security program must account for basic security hygiene, which creates the basis for arguing legal defensibility ; which is to say, if you're not doing the basics, then your program can be construed insufficient, exposing your organization to legal liability (a growing concern). The Basics.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It is no longer just being discussed by CISOs and security professionals, but politicians, school administrators, and hospital directors. In 2020, both groups accounted for over 50 percent of all ransomware attacks, with REvil making up a small 1.7%. Words like Babuk and REvil have entered the everyday lexicon.

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