The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

ai Antani Many speculated that the ransomware attack on a Toyota supply chain player in Kojima, Japan was in retaliation for Japan’s aid to Ukraine. CISOs will have to get quantum resilient encryption on their cyber roadmap. What should I be most concerned about – and focus on – in 2024? Their guidance: Snehal Antani , CEO, Horizon3.ai

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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? Continuous pentesting and ransomware simulations are among Airiam’s many controls. Backup Is Hard.

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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. 2023 cybersecurity issues will continue: Weak IT fundamentals, poor cybersecurity awareness, and ransomware will still cause problems and make headlines.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

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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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

How CIOs Can Protect Data Against Ransomware Attacks in 2022. Here are 4 ways to protect your organization’s most precious asset—data—against the ransomware pandemic. Ransomware has become one of the most dangerous and high-profile problems facing CIOs and CISOs worldwide. Wed, 10/27/2021 - 08:34. Hims Pawar.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 8, 2023

And when malware, ransomware, or other cyber threats get in the way, the focus shifts from forward progress to focused co-operation. When it comes down to it, C-level goals and CISO initiatives are not all that misaligned. Related: How ‘CAASM’ closes gaps. In an enterprise, it’s the same rule.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The focus on securing the SDLC is driven by the rise in exploits that target security gaps in websites, online portals, APIs, and other parts of the app ecosystem to exfiltrate data, install ransomware, inflict reputational damage, or otherwise degrade enterprise security and the bottom line.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Fortunately, vendor surveys identify five key cybersecurity threats to watch for in 2024: compromised credentials, attacks on infrastructure, organized and advanced adversaries, ransomware, and uncontrolled devices. Infrastructure Protection Defense against DDoS and DNS attacks starts with effective network security architecture.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 6, 2023

has attacked the Port of Nagoya, Japan's largest cargo port that handles a fair share of Toyota's exports and imports, making a ransomware demand in exchange for recovery of the port's computer system. Interestingly, the ransomware demand was printed from one of the Nagoya Harbor Transportation Authority's office printers, with LockBit 3.0

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I think it requires taking a step back and assessing what you can do with less," said Chris Roberts, CISO and Senior Director at Boom Supersonic. Andrew Smeaton, CISO at Afiniti, says reassessment of cybersecurity programs and plans is necessary. Does this tool integrate with our existing architecture (e.g., SIEM, SOAR)?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While in past years, InfoSec was previously the focus and CISOs were the norm – we’re moving to a new cybersecurity world order that expands the role of the CISO to a CSO (Chief Security Officer). Ransomware becomes the most feared adversary. The report will be published in January 2022.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A critical part of achieving balanced security is for the organization to execute an architecture optimization. By breaking out the various architecture domains of the organization relating to risk and cybersecurity, including: SecOps Processes aligning to current adaptive control capabilities.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2022

By mid-2021, 51 percent of all organizations had reported a successful data breach, and 61 percent had paid a ransomware attacker to restore frozen data and systems. Seven Cloud Security Predictions CISOs Can Use in 2022. Now, it’s time to right the ship. If that sounds challenging, that’s correct.

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Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Ransomware attacks will become even more sophisticated and intense in 2024, with more originating via unmanaged or bring-your-own devices, and human operated ransomware attacks. Many attackers will shift their approach from double to triple extortion activities after ransomware attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 17, 2022

By Tyler Farrar, CISO, Exabeam. It makes sense that security budgets should follow to help protect these increasingly diverse and flexible architectures. In most scenarios, CISOs have three choices when considering a move away from legacy tech: 1.Take While organizations faced an unknown road ahead, they were quick to adapt.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 30, 2022

After two years of virtual engagements, in-person events like our CISO Forum and Cisco Live as well as the industry’s RSA Conference underscore the power of face-to-face interactions. The interconnection conundrum and the ransomware ruse . Supply chain attacks have become one of the biggest security worries for businesses.

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McAfee

AUGUST 23, 2021

I found that I had a passion for information security and have been the CISO at two different Fortune 500 companies. We have also challenged our lack of standards and formed the Enterprise Architecture team to drive these patterns into the organization. But we are just at the beginning of the journey, and have a long way to go.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It was apropos that Ray Yepes, newly appointed CISO for the State of Colorado, opened the 2022 SecureWorld Denver conference on October 6th. Ray Yepes, CISO for the State of Colorado, presents the opening keynote. Down the hall, Brenden Smith, CISO at FirstBank, presented "Revisiting Deception Systems: Enterprise Use Cases."

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

CHALLENGE: Increasing number of ransomware and DDoS attacks, new vulnerabilities introduced by work-from-home, and the need to protect rapidly growing volumes of IoT devices, has put many enterprise security organizations at a crossroads. Top three ways to prepare for a ransomware event. Speaker: Geoff Mefford and Alex Waterman.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2021

As wake up calls go, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware hack was piercing. This very high-profile caper is part of an extended surge of ransomware attacks, which quintupled globally between the first quarter of 2018 and the fourth quarter of 2020, and is expected to rise 20 percent to 40 percent this year, according to insurance giant Aon.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

Making matters worse, a known Ransomware group claimed credit for the breach. An IAM provider is a potential vector for Ransomware that would be particularly hard to address because IAM occupies such a position of trust in the technology stack and software supply chain. There is an alternative approach that safeguards your source code.

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SC Magazine

MAY 14, 2021

At the core, there are specific recommendations to improve federal cybersecurity, including improvements in the security standard for federal purchases, developing a playbook for response, and requiring a modern suite of security techniques, including endpoint detection and response and a zero trust architecture. .

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Cisco Security

APRIL 19, 2022

For example, between 2019 and 2020, Wizard Spider, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal group, extorted $61 million from ransomware attacks, including notable attacks that included Universal Healthcare System Hospitals, and state government administrative offices in both Georgia and Florida. Scenario 2: Sandworm. Protection Test.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 2, 2021

In the wake of a multitude of ransomware attacks, fallout from the SolarWinds breach and the Oldsmar water supply attack, CISOs are looking for effective methods to reduce risk beyond traditional means such as penetration testing. ecooper99 CreativeCommons Credit: CC BY 2.0. Enter purple teams.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 25, 2023

Fast payouts are almost surely going to come from ransomware in these scenarios." Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist and Advisory CISO at Delinea: "The recent Volt Typhoon warning from Microsoft is alarming.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 8, 2021

Ransomware saw a similar increase in attacks, with updated platforms like WastedLocker. User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) made significant strides as one way of determining trust in a zero-trust architecture. This was partially true with incremental advances in most crimeware packages. Well, it was. But then it wasn’t.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 15, 2021

With this, organizations across the globe can benefit from NetApp ONTAP’s robust security capabilities to protect customers’ information on-premises and in remote locations from foreign actors, ransomware attacks or other data loss threats they may face. A cybersecurity program led by the U.S.

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McAfee

JANUARY 23, 2020

Hear from Land O’ Lakes CISO Tony Taylor and McAfee SVP of Cloud Security Rajiv Gupta as they share lessons learned along the journey to cloud-first IT at Land O’ Lakes, including new requirements for cloud-native security controls and the evolution to a cloud-edge architecture that has replaced their former network.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

This creates a major gap in security awareness, considering the 65,000 ransomware attacks deployed in the U.S. The CIOs and CISOs suggested that while real-time patch status may be known for certain devices, it does not exist for many.”. In health care, ransomware and data breaches frequently receive the most media attention.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Under the guidance of Dan Meacham, VP of Global Security and Corporate Operations and CSO/CISO, the multi-billion dollar organization transitioned from on-premises data centers to the cloud in 2012. Its cloud-native, open architecture was exactly the right fit for Legendary Entertainment’s environment.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

He referenced an insurer’s role in designing pressure relief valves for the steam engines powering Philadelphia in the 1800s: “They said if you wanted to have insurance, you have to have this piece of architecture on your system.” In so doing, “they drove security or solutions to avoid large insurance claims.”.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

Ransomware actors routinely look for easy vulnerabilities to exploit in victim organizations. Ironically, SolarWinds may now be one of the few companies that has given its CISO the authority to hit pause on any software update where speed and time-to-market are the prime considerations and there are outstanding security questions.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

So you’ve been hit with ransomware and, for whatever reason, you paid the bitcoin but now the decryptor doesn’t work. To be good at digital forensics, to be a digital Sherlock Holmes, you need to understand systems architecture. Who are you going to call for help? Even if you think you’re erasing your tracks.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

This year we saw the reemergence of old vectors: from ransomware & trojans, to supply chain attacks. Cyber Observer’s partnership with Cisco enables CISOs to manage and monitor their cybersecurity eco-system posture. This integration leverages pxGrid ANC to take remediation actions. Access the atomic actions here. [8]

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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. Ransomware he won't attack right?

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