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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. But what are your options for proactive protection when the notion of a walled-in network has been shattered by the proliferation of new IoT devices, growth of cloud services, and new hybrid work from home models?

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New SEI CERT chief and first ever federal CISO: old cybersecurity models have ‘been overcome’

SC Magazine

Trying to maintain computational and algorithmic advantage, we want to make sure that not only are we being secure by design, but we want to make sure that the whole ecosystem is properly addressed. That includes the architectures, the computing platforms, the algorithms and the people and the process as well. And that’s been overcome.

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DDoS Myths: Blackholing and Outsourcing Won’t Stop Everything

eSecurity Planet

When CISOs evaluate their IT infrastructure, they assign scoring priorities to different systems. However, the reliance of systems on each other has increased significantly, with APIs, microservice architecture, and other interdependencies. Moreover, outsourcing DDoS protection may give IT managers a false sense of security.

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MITRE ResilienCyCon: You Will Be Breached So Be Ready

eSecurity Planet

The conference’s focus on cyber resilience doesn’t mean that organizations should abandon core security defenses like EDR , access control and firewalls , but they should be prepared for the advanced threats that will, at some point, get past them.

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Firms with exposed IoT have a higher concentration of other security problems

SC Magazine

You have systems of internal network accessible from the internet, so potentially, you’ve got internet access and firewall policy issues. If it’s an accident, then geez, you’re not managing your environment and you don’t have effective security architecture to prevent exposure of assets.

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SANS Critical Controls 17, 18 and 19: Data Loss Prevention, Incident Response and Management, Secure Network Engineering

NopSec

In this installment of our SANS 20 Critical Security Controls, I bundled three controls together simply because they are very much procedural in nature. Data Loss Prevention control has recently jumped on most organizations CISOs’ radarscreens because of the whistle-blowing revelations on NSA by Mr. Snowden.

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Vulnerability Management Policy Template

eSecurity Planet

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintains a list of known exploited vulnerabilities that can be referenced to check for active exploitation. For example, a vulnerability in a wi-fi router firewall configuration may expose Windows 95 machines required to run manufacturing equipment.