The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2020

For many Chief Information Security Officers, having the CEO’s ear, at the moment, is proving to be a double-edged sword, Pollard told me. “We We find many CISOs spend their time explaining what threats matter and why, as opposed to why cybersecurity matters in the first place,” he says. That’s the ‘cheat code’ for CISO success.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Quantum computing poses a potential threat to current cybersecurity practices, which are based on encryption algorithms that can be broken by quantum computers. As for the panel presentation at SecureWorld Denver , it features Edgar Acosta, Experienced Cybersecurity Professional (former CISO at DCP Midstream ); Craig Hurter, Sr.

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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. Frameworks.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

It is also more sophisticated, using advanced encryption algorithms that make it more difficult to decrypt files that have been encrypted by the malware, moving laterally to disrupt cloud applications and taking advantage of inconspicuous crypto-mining schemes. targets large organisations and critical infrastructure.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 6, 2021

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. In our previous blogs we have discussed the many challenges that organizations face as they are seeking to embrace the Zero Trust security model.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Consistent with the federal government’s deployment of Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM), the CDM program is a dynamic approach to fortifying the cybersecurity of government networks and systems. 1: Developing a decision tree approach to security. I follow that path down to where that data is stored.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

By: Matt Lindley, COO and CISO at NINJIO. But a survey conducted by Google and Harris found that many people still refuse to adopt even the most essential credential security measures: just 37 percent use two-factor authentication, around a third change their passwords regularly, and a mere 15 percent use a password manager.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 30, 2021

Using this list as a backdrop the following best practices are presented as a call to action to help organizations take a proactive approach at addressing API security risk. Use strong authentication and authorization. and protocols like OpenID Connect to secure the sharing of sensitive company and user information.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

After spending 25 years of her career in IT, including more than 17 years in information security, Nancy considers joining the Federal Reserve Bank in 2017 as the highlight of her career. At Comcast as a DevSecOps Transformation Coach, she fosters continuous improvement and sustained adoption of Secure Development Lifecycle practices.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

But the SAO is accusing Accellion of being less than forthcoming, with officials explaining in a virtual press conference and a public statement that it was not aware of any security incident at Accellion until the Jan. Hence the reason why credit card information is never transmitted to the retailer.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 21, 2021

Based on the notion of “never trust, always verify”, Zero Trust has given enterprises some guiding principles to build a new security stack that is better suited for the modern-day organization. The path to a Zero Trust posture is not linear, and the tall claims by security vendors often cloud the decision-making. Encryption.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

.” “It would be possible, on detailed examination of video, to compromise elements of operational security,” agreed Mike Hamilton, co-founder and chief information security officer of CI Security and former Seattle CISO. Individual workers’ patterns and habits could be studied as well, to their detriment.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Also Read: Remote Work Security | Top Priorities & Projects for 2021. The truth is that solutions like single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) can spell disaster if initial access is all a malicious actor needs to traverse the network’s resources. Ransomware: Encryption, Exfiltration, and Extortion.

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NopSec

JUNE 26, 2015

Information security professionals have a single core mission: to understand technological risks and take the necessary steps to protect information assets from harm. We have conducted training and raised security awareness throughout the organization. But in the end, we are still getting hacked.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Cyber attacks nowadays do not often come from ingenious ‘hackers’ in dark rooms, they’re often the result of an employee reusing the same password, or businesses not implementing basic practices such as multi-factor authentication. Jon Clemenson, director of information security, TokenEx. Tyler Farrar ,CISO, Exabeam.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

With ransomware, attackers encrypt an organization's data and hold it hostage until a ransom is paid. Baccio: So if you are a net defender, take this research and use that to inform your strategy. He was the first CISO for a US presidential campaign, working for Pete Buttigieg. Ransomware is not new.

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