The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Related: Adopting an assume-breach mindset With that in mind, Last Watchdog invited the cybersecurity experts we’ve worked with this past year for their perspectives on two questions that all company leaders should have top of mind: •What should be my biggest takeaway from 2023, with respect to mitigating cyber risks at my organization?

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2025

(SecurityWeek) For more information about secure software development: CISA Tells Tech Vendors To Squash Command Injection Bugs, as OpenSSF Calls on Developers To Boost Security Skills (Tenable) Secure Development (Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Her work centered on helping aerospace manufacturers manage the convergence of cyber risk across their increasingly complex business ecosystem, including IT, OT and connected products. Director/CISO of IT Risk Management at Ulta Beauty located in Bolingbrook, IL. Director of Cyber Risk & Security Services.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

•Cyber hygiene and monitoring.This new Diversified managed service monitors the hardware and software at a business to ensure it has the latest security patches, configuration and access control – minimizing the enterprise’s cyber risk exposure. Vulnerability management.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

This past year set a profound stage, from the advent of stringent cyber regulations to the convergence of generative AI, social engineering, and ransomware. Last year, we witnessed the fast-evolving nature of social engineering attacks, and this evolution poses greater challenges for detection and defense.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As end users represent the biggest cyber risk to enterprises, secure web gateways are an important cornerstone of IT security, along with employee cybersecurity training and secure email gateways. It unites spyware, malware, and virus protection with a policy and reporting engine. Agent-based, proxy-free architecture.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 18, 2022

Social engineering. Social engineering is the most prevalent way threat actors find their way into your environment. Network design and architecture. More complex architectures may be needed depending on the industry or the data. In others, it is a lack of budgetary foresight creating cyber risk.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The most prevalent first- and second-generation SIEMs also came with very basic correlation engines, the best they knew how to do at that time. Splunk was founded in 2003 as essentially the first-ever flexible and powerful store and search engine for big data. They were also used for data retention and compliance.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 25, 2024

"Heavily armored and weaponized nation-state threats are difficult to stop compared to lesser threats of opportunistic eCrime or more immature threats," says Ken Dunham, Cyber Threat Director at Qualys Threat Research Unit. "A currently Hanwha Ocean Co.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2023

Botts has a different, and cautious, view on the North Shore IT Collaborative, saying: " I hate to throw cold water, but unless these towns build in a security architecture to go with the connectivity, all they will do is give a potential attacker access to more attack surfaces and an ability to propagate malware through a larger network.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

. “I believe this to be the next tectonic shift,” said Bryan Hurd, vice president at Aon Cyber Solutions. 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.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The threat actors leverage perfectly orchestrated social engineering technique by “persuading” people holding significant corporate positions to open a non-malicious PDF email attachment coming from an authentic address in their contacts.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Below is our esteemed panel of SC Awards judges, contributing from health care, engineering, finance, education, manufacturing, nonprofit and consulting, among others. Since founding Cedric Leighton Associates, he has become an internationally known strategic risk expert. Click here to see the full list of 2021 SC Award finalists.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Technique Inference Engine (TIE) lets cybersecurity pros input tactics or techniques from the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base they’ve detected in their environment. Tenable Research is proud to be a key contributor to the new MITRE Engenuity Technique Inference Engine (TIE) – a powerful resource for security teams.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 11, 2022

” Irfahn Khimji, Chief Systems Engineer at Tripwire : “The longer a vulnerability is in the wild, the more time an attacker has to prepare an exploit. The quicker an organization can remediate vulnerabilities, the better protected they are.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 15, 2023

DevOps engineers: KMaaS can benefit developers by providing a simple and secure way to integrate encryption into their applications. Reduce business threats Key Management as a Service can help organizations reduce cyber risks and address various threats to business and data security.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 15, 2022

Now, old monolith apps are being broken into microservices developed in elastic and flexible service-mesh architecture. Protecting APIs against modern cyber threats requires going beyond the traditional solutions. Many of the businesses that already have revenue-generating web applications are starting an API-first program.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 29, 2024

Protecting manufacturing operations requires a shared responsibility model, which includes local plant leadership, manufacturing engineering and operations, and information technology and security teams. Leighton: "It's becoming more and more evident that cybersecurity professionals need to be trained in cyber intelligence trade craft.

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Hacker's King

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Cybersecurity features several high-paying specializations, including ethical hacking, security architecture, and incident response. These professionals protect organizations from cyber threats by identifying vulnerabilities and responding to incidents. As cyber risks grow, careers in this field offer strong earning potential.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 10, 2022

He will be responsible for driving innovation across product, engineering, and business development teams to help meet demand for security operations through Arctic Wolf’s growing customer base—especially in the enterprise sector. Built on an open XDR architecture, the platform has scaled to ingest, parse, enrich, and analyze over 1.6

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Hacker's King

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

YAML-Configurable Correlation Engine: It has a YAML-configurable engine with 37 rules for advance data correlation and identification of patterns. Radare2 In the world of cybersecurity and reverse engineering, Radare2 stands out as a game-changer. Discover how this open-source gem can enhance your cybersecurity toolkit.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The findings of an ESG paper commissioned by McAfee concurred: “Organizations want more visibility into cyber-risks so they can tailor and prioritize their threat response and risk remediation actions in alignment with threats that may hit them,” said Jon Oltsik, ESG fellow. The threats that are engineered to target you.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Security infrastructure and redundancy: Check the vendor’s data centers, network architecture, backup and disaster recovery plans, and uptime assurances. Social engineering, for example, is a threat that makes use of human vulnerabilities for illegal access. Internal actors also play a substantial role in cybersecurity breaches.

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Threat actors have developed social engineering approaches that leverage the uncertainty and chaos of the pandemic in order to deliver their malicious software. When it comes to cyber risks, the most up-to-date cybersecurity technology or regimented program doesn’t make an organization immune to an attack.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Examples of threatening traffic that IDPS solutions can combat include network intrusions, DDoS attacks, malware, and socially engineered attacks. With microsegmentation, the most sensitive parts of a network are roped off with stricter policies, often with zero-trust architecture and identity and access management protections in place.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

For example, reverse engineering malware requires an entirely different skillset than leveraging security to enable business operations, he explained. It allows you to understand the purpose of building a security architecture and the tasks become more manageable.”.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Implement strong network segmentation, zero trust architecture, least privilege access controls, and VPNs to strictly limit lateral movement. Provide cybersecurity awareness training to all personnel, enabling them to identify social engineering attacks and risky behavior.

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Spinone

JANUARY 14, 2019

Innovation is in Google’s DNA, and by being focused on core business processes, the company has put over a thousand hours of the user experience research engineers into this. Imagine that there are nearly 800 million monthly active users of Drive with trillions of files stored on Google Drive, representing enterprises’ knowledge.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Last Watchdog posed two questions: •What should be my biggest takeaway from 2023, with respect to mitigating cyber risks at my organization? Wayne Schepens , Chief Cyber Market Analyst, CyberRisk Alliance Schepens The weakest link is still humans; attacks caused by social engineering remain a critical risk for all organizations.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Let’s take a look at key insights on cybersecurity risks for CEOs and management teams. Understanding Cyber Risk Management Even if a CEO does not have a background in IT or experience with IT infrastructure in general, they must be aware of the risk and impact of cybersecurity or lack thereof on their business.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Core to any organization is managing cyber risk with a security operations function whether it be in-house or outsourced. McAfee has been and continues their commitment to protecting cyber assets. From Ismael Valenzuela , Senior Principal Engineer, McAfee.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Zero Trust Architecture Becomes the Norm: Organizations will fully embrace Zero Trust principles, leading to better segmentation and control over data, even in hybrid and remote work environments. 'The What the Practitioners Predict Jake Bernstein, Esq.,

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Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s where attackers work search engine rankings or paid social media content by employing deceptive techniques such as keyword stuffing, hidden text, link farms, or other unethical practices to drive traffic to their websites and gain undeserved visibility in search engine results.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

But it’s not just ransomware that’s posing a threat; social engineering attacks climbed 270% in 2021 , driven by the widespread adoption of cloud-based apps and browsers, and 86% of organizations had had at least one employee connect unwittingly to a phishing site in 2021.

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

In this blog, I’m exploring these changes, grouped under key categories that I’ve used in previous years, to help business leaders and cyber risk owners better prepare for the evolving landscape. These groups are also shifting toward more human-centric exploits , like social engineering and insider assistance.

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SecureList

JANUARY 29, 2025

Therefore, many countries are looking for their way into the new technological order, investing in promising research and development in a variety of areas: AI and machine learning, quantum computing, optical electronics, new materials, energy sources and types of engines, satellites and telecommunications, genetics, biotechnology and medicine.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 19, 2021

Ideally, businesses would fully understand the cyber risks posed by APIs and thoughtfully account for them. Into this milieu, engineers at Facebook contributed GraphQL, a new data query language for APIs and a cyber risk wild card. But things are far from ideal. Facebook’s choke point.

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