IT Security Guru

APRIL 12, 2022

CISOs and security professionals work to limit this burgeoning threat landscape, however, it’s a work in progress. . 60% of Microsoft Office 365 and G Suite tenants have been targeted with IMAP-based password-spraying attacks, according to researchers. Attackers target Citrix with insecure legacy protocols.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 18, 2021

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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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Chris Clements, VP of Solutions Architecture, Cerberus Sentinel. It is not be simply a matter of hiring a CISO, but ensuring that proper procedures and tools are implemented across the organization, including its third-party suppliers and contractors. For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

Speculation continued to run wild on Twitter that the breach may have affected other companies, leading them to instruct employees to reset their passwords and identity information. At ShiftLeft we elected to use an agent-based architecture that does not require us to upload all your source code into our systems.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 3, 2024

"We have no indication that payment card data or passwords were compromised." Brad Jones, CISO at Snowflake, issued a Joint Statement regarding Preliminary Findings in Snowflake Cybersecurity Investigation on its Snowflake Forums. In this case, it appears that the security of cloud-hosted data is only as strong as the users' passwords.

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SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Our CISO has a saying: Hackers don’t break in, they log in. And they log in using password spraying, in many cases, or they log in entering the network from a different access point. We have a built-in defense in depth architecture, we had started with zero trust. That was the good news. The second one is zero trust.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 8, 2021

User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) made significant strides as one way of determining trust in a zero-trust architecture. As one CISO shared with me, “Our crisis response and subsequent focus on securing productivity pushed new initiatives to 2021.” Well, it was. But then it wasn’t.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2025

Dont use default password in your products. For more information about the threat from nation-state cyber attackers: What CISOs Need to Know About Nation-State Actors (InformationWeek) 4 Ways to Defend Against Nation-State Attacks (BankInfoSecurity) Growing Nation-State Alliances Increase U.S.

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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 Safety is always the number one priority in manufacturing organizations," said Tammy Klotz , CISO at Trinseo. It warns that by 2030, damages from cyberattacks on manufacturing could total $1.5 Air Force (Ret.);

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 6, 2021

As World Password Day comes around again this May 6 th , how much has changed in the year since we last marked the occasion? As such, this year’s World Password Day is in fact a timely reminder for businesses to drop passwords forever, and instead rollout access management solutions such as passwordless authentication.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As for the panel presentation at SecureWorld Denver , it features Edgar Acosta, Experienced Cybersecurity Professional (former CISO at DCP Midstream ); Craig Hurter, Sr. Director of Information Security, State of Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology; and Toby Zimmerer, Sr. Demand and Delivery Director, Optiv.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

We had some legacy architecture that that was failing. Greg McCarthy, CISO of Boston. A password manager is a great way to keep long and strong passwords so you don’t have to log in,” said Coleman to SC Media. “A The days of password spreadsheets in a drawer should be over.”.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 6, 2023

Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist and Advisory CISO at Delinea, said: "Ransomware attacks have a far-reaching effect, particularly when a major part of the global supply chain is targeted. Due to international law enforcement on cybercrime being so rare, there are no real consequences for ransomware operators either.

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NetSpi Executives

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This will drive a greater shift towards fewer, more comprehensive solutions that reduce management complexity and enhance team productivity. With cyber threats growing more complex and frequent, CISOs are under immense pressure to ensure that their teams can respond rapidly and decisively.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Implement reference architectures based on the security patterns. CISOs need to lead from the front and take an active role in the evangelization and implementation of cloud security controls under the auspices of a secure enterprise cloud operating model. Design core cloud security patterns that comply with the policy and standards.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 19, 2020

Sherry brought to Princeton his 25 years of technology experience, 12 of which was in higher education as the former CISO at Brown University. Sherry explained that he (the CISO) would have no operational responsibilities in the beginning to focus solely on the execution of the mission.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Understanding the company’s network topology, architecture and even how it’s mapped in its physical space can help build an effective security strategy tailored to the organization’s infrastructure and assets. For example, some devices may not support the deployment of security clients, so securing them becomes a matter of network policies.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 26, 2022

Create an inventory of all components and data and map them to architecture. The white-pen tester customarily granted access to usernames and passwords, IP addresses of the targeting hosts, and the expectation of testing criteria. Architectural or infrastructure changes. Establish the scope. Determine likely threats.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If you talk to most CISOs, they readily acknowledge this is occurring, and current solutions, such as cloud access security brokers (CASBs) , provide data but do not provide clearly prioritized, actionable remediation steps to mitigate SaaS security risk comprehensively. Without the first two pillars, this one is near impossible.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 31, 2021

Utilizing a VPN model also creates the scenario where users must add another credential set to their running list of usernames and passwords to remember. Moving to a Zero Trust architecture would help with this model if setup in a single sign-on, VPN-less architecture.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

According to a blog penned by the Okta CISO, here’s what happened: On January 20 2022, a third-party customer support engineer working for Okta had their account compromised by Lapsus$. Reset password for Okta admins. The first known extortion attempt by Lapsus$ included the Brazil Health Ministry in December of 2021.

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NopSec

AUGUST 22, 2013

Data Loss Prevention control has recently jumped on most organizations CISOs’ radarscreens because of the whistle-blowing revelations on NSA by Mr. Snowden. Web applications layered architecture need to be appropriately structured to prevent the various layers to be compromised independently.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

Zero Trust Key Concepts Zero trust, as a set of design ideas and principles for a security architecture allows for numerous interpretations about how to approach an efficient and safe implementation. When speaking to CISOs about zero trust one of the most common responses is to ask where they should start.

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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. In a cloud application and mobile world, organizations can’t rely on traditional perimeter security architecture to secure access to applications. This integration leverages pxGrid ANC to take remediation actions.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

And get the latest on MFA methods, CISO trends and Uncle Sam’s AI strategy. 6 - State CISOs on the frontlines of AI security As the cybersecurity risks and benefits of AI multiply, most U.S. state CISOs find themselves at the center of their governments' efforts to craft AI security strategies and policies.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Did someone just forgot to change the default password? There's a lot an IT person can do to prevent being hacked: they can make sure they use strong passwords, or they can make sure that they have proper network architecture. You need user education; you need to make sure that you recognize phishing and all that sort of stuff.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Did someone just forgot to change the default password? There's a lot an IT person can do to prevent being hacked: they can make sure they use strong passwords, or they can make sure that they have proper network architecture. You need user education; you need to make sure that you recognize phishing and all that sort of stuff.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

Did someone just forgot to change the default password? There's a lot an IT person can do to prevent being hacked: they can make sure they use strong passwords, or they can make sure that they have proper network architecture. You need user education; you need to make sure that you recognize phishing and all that sort of stuff.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Technology: Technology is the foundation for an IAM program delivery within a layered security architecture. RELATED: Death of the VPN: A Security Eulogy ] VPNs have notably higher operating costs and lower scalability when using device-based architecture. In this case, CISOs must manage the risks due to the technology debt.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2021

By Shay Siksik, VP Customer Operations and CISO, XM Cyber. Using a strong, unique password is a simple thing, but people consistently fail to do so. There are things we know: 2 + 2 = 4, for example. We call this common knowledge. There are also things we know that we don’t know, such as “what existed prior to the Big Bang?”

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

Imagine a shift away from logging into a “network” to having security seamlessly built into the network, and multi-factor authentication and authorization continuously performed at the application level on the fly — without users typing passwords. What’s Next?

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

To be good at digital forensics, to be a digital Sherlock Holmes, you need to understand systems architecture. Vamosi: So you’re CISO at a major corporation and all of sudden there’s been a ransomware attack in your network, and it’s spreading throughout your infrastructure.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JULY 22, 2021

It also feeds into the larger argument for adopting a zero-trust architecture , a methodology that essentially assumes that no user or devices trying to connect to the network can be trusted until they’re authenticated and verified. There also is the zero-trust architecture, according to the ThreatLabz report.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

Cyber threats often exploit human errors, whether through phishing attacks, weak passwords, or lapses in protocol. CISO Perceptions A critical blind spot for CISOs and cyber risk owners is the divergence in perceptions of their security stack’s effectiveness between leadership and technical teams.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 19, 2022

And how we do that is through using our security operations platform, gray matter is built on an open XDR architecture and we provide this as a service across their telemetry or whether it's on you know, on their network and their cloud or at the endpoint, or across all that telemetry. Around companies, right?

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