CSO Magazine

MARCH 21, 2022

Anyone who follows cybersecurity is aware of the steady drumbeat of data breaches and attacks. Learn 8 pitfalls that undermine security program success and 12 tips for effectively presenting cybersecurity to the board. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ].

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 30, 2023

Seasoned CISOs/CSOs understand the importance of effectively communicating cyber risk and the need for investment in cybersecurity defense to the board of directors. To ensure cybersecurity becomes a strategic part of the corporate culture, it is crucial for CISOs to present the topic in a clear, concise, and compelling manner.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 5, 2023

AI-based cyber risk management SaaS vendor SAFE Security has announced the release Cyber Risk Cloud of Cloud – a new offering it claims uses generative AI to help businesses predict and prevent cyber breaches. It does so by answering questions about a customer’s cybersecurity posture and generating likelihoods for different risk scenarios.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

Data breaches have the power to cause significant harm to a business’ finances, customer experience, and reputation. Financial organizations, especially, need security solutions to stay ahead of targeted threats and data breaches. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We also saw, for the first time, a security chief sentenced to prison for concealing a data breach. With the shifts in the cybersecurity landscape, 2022 has been a milestone year we will look back on when studying the history of when and why cybersecurity and digital trust were fused together," says Kory Daniels, CISO at Trustwave.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

They earn and handle tremendous amounts of money, store millions of customer credit card numbers, and have frontline staff who may lack cybersecurity training. According to a 2022 data breach report from Verizon, the retail industry reported 629 incidents in 2022, 241 of which had “confirmed data disclosure.”

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

The problem is that many companies don't realize that using third-party APIs can expose their applications to security issues, such as malware, data breaches, and unauthorized access. Third-party APIs are software interfaces that allow organizations to leverage third-party functionality or data on their own websites or applications.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2023

US financial institutions see peer-to-peer fraud and other digital fraud as the biggest cybersecurity concern in 2023. CSI), followed by data breaches (23%), ransomware (20%) and a breach at a third party (15%). To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

By now, most of the industry has realized we’re seeing a shift from the legacy perimeter-based security model to an identity-centric approach to cybersecurity. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Since then, we've witnessed a wide range of attacks: Stuxnet destroyed almost a fifth of Iran's nuclear centrifuges, WannaCry infected computers in 150 countries, ransomware gangs stole millions of US dollars, and thousands of companies have been affected by data breaches.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Nearly half of CISOs will change jobs by 2025 due to stress caused by the risk of being breached while trying to retain staff, according to the Gartner report, Predicts 2023: Cybersecurity Industry Focuses on the Human Deal. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From a cybersecurity standpoint, organizations are operating in a high-risk world. When it isn’t, organizations will likely find themselves the target of a data breach or ransomware attack, or be vulnerable to any number of other security issues.” To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

A data breach can result in catastrophic consequences for any organization. To keep intruders out of your networks and data, you need more than up-to-date guidance; you also need to continually assess system configurations for conformance to security best practices, and to harden thousands of individual settings in your environment.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 30, 2021

The education sector is a top target for cybercriminals, and faces “an unusually large percentage” of social engineering attacks, according to the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. For example, the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center reported an 18% increase in cyberattacks against schools over the previous year.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

Cybersecurity vendor Guardz has announced the release of a new AI-powered phishing protection solution to help small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and managed service providers (MSPs) prevent phishing attacks. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

The report is based on Tenable Research team’s analysis of cybersecurity events, vulnerabilities and trends throughout 2022, including an analysis of 1,335 data breach incidents publicly disclosed between November 2021 and October 2022. billion records were exposed, which accounted for 257 terabytes of data.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 25, 2023

Cybersecurity company Circle Security has emerged from stealth with the release of a new platform “purpose-built” to protect against credential-driven threats and cloud attacks. Credential-driven data breaches are the biggest threat vector for most companies. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Cybersecurity is top of mind for all organizations. These institutions reported 6,843 security incidents in 2019—the second-highest among industries, according to the Verizon 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report. To read this article in full, please click here It’s the No.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2022

Cybersecurity risk assessment company Safe Security on Tuesday rolled out two new online risk assessment tools for businesses to use, in order to help them understand their vulnerability to cyberattacks and the costs of insuring against them. To read this article in full, please click here

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SC Magazine

JUNE 11, 2021

Expectations around how corporate America responds to and communicates around data breaches has evolved significantly over the past two decades,” said T.J. When a data breach is discovered, the heat is on the IS/IT department(s) and, in many organizations, there is a culture of blame,” said Winick. Here is a sampling.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 27, 2023

In March, the company disclosed a data breach that exposed about 1.2% Companies utilizing the GPT-4 API should do their own verification of code before using it in production,” said Jerrod Piker, Competitive Intelligence Analyst at Deep Instinct, which uses deep learning for cybersecurity. The key is getting ahead of the risks.”

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SecureWorld News

MAY 30, 2023

Equifax is sharing its Security Controls Framework to anyone who wants it as a pay-it-forward for lessons learned from its 2017 data breach in which attackers exfiltrated hundreds of millions of customer records from the credit reporting agency. "We into our security transformation. My philosophy is always been about fundamentals.

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