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MITRE ResilienCyCon: You Will Be Breached So Be Ready

eSecurity Planet

JupiterOne CISO Sounil Yu, creator of a Cyber Defense Matrix adopted by OWASP, noted the concentration of security products in protection and detection and wondered, “Is our industry actually solving the right problems? Backup Is Hard. “ Immutable backups ” are often touted as the answer here. Really Hard.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 3)

The Last Watchdog

CISOs will have to get quantum resilient encryption on their cyber roadmap. Nick Mistry , SVP, CISO, Lineaje Mistry The software landscape is poised for significant changes, with a growing emphasis on Software Bill of Materials (SBOM.) Consumers will begin to see their favorite applications touting “quantum-secure encryption.”

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A Reactive Cybersecurity Strategy Is No Strategy at All

CyberSecurity Insiders

A foundational approach to cybersecurity empowers CISOs to see abnormalities and block threats before they do damage. By increasing visibility into DNS traffic, CISOs can detect, block, and respond to incidents more quickly as well as use this data to institute new controls and increase overall resiliency.

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“Left of Boom” Cybersecurity: Proactive Cybersecurity in a Time of Increasing Threats and Attacks

Cisco Security

The primary job of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is to exercise continuous diligence in reducing risk, within the risk appetite and risk tolerance of the organization, so that the likelihood of a boom is low, and the corresponding magnitude of harm is limited. Some “Left of Boom” Processes. Frameworks.

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Ransomware Resiliency for Storage & Backup: Trends, Threats & Tips

CyberSecurity Insiders

Breaking The Myths: Storage, Backup, And Data Recoverability. A few years ago, very few CISOs thought that storage & backups were important. Ransomware has pushed backup and recovery back onto the agenda. Regulators are starting to pay attention to backup systems and data recovery.

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How CIOs Can Protect Data Against Ransomware Attacks in 2022

Security Boulevard

Ransomware has become one of the most dangerous and high-profile problems facing CIOs and CISOs worldwide. A Zero Trust architecture should be at the center of every security strategy. Here are 4 ways to protect your organization’s most precious asset—data—against the ransomware pandemic. Hims Pawar. Oct 27, 2021. A recent U.S.

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Vulnerability Management Policy Template

eSecurity Planet

Similarly, the IT Department needs to evaluate the current environment, the current IT architecture, and the nature of the vulnerability to determine the likelihood of exploitation, which should also be evaluated on a scale from 1 (low likelihood) to 10 (high likelihood). Broader is always better to control risks, but can be more costly.]