Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report advises organizations to deploy multifactor authentication throughout all systems and discourage password reuse. MFA awareness is not new to CISOs or IT teams. authentication technologies. This has become more popular through the adoption of FIDO2 (FastIDentity Online 2.0)

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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. Social media will become even more of a cesspool of AI and human-created garbage.” This will include synthetic written, spoken, and potentially even image or video content.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

The attacker claims to have compromised an end-of-lifed GPRS system that was exposed to the internet and was able to pivot from it to the internal network, where they were able to launch a brute force authentication attack against internal systems. Most immediately is the ubiquity of 2-factor authentication.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

LinkedIn has announced a new set of security features that will help verify user identity, remove fraudulent accounts, and boost authenticity, according to an official blog post from the company. To combat these threat actors, LinkedIn has announced three new features.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

When the Telecoms Security Act (TSA) was introduced, it was labelled as ‘one of the strongest telecoms security regimes in the world, a rise in standards across the board, set by the government rather than the industry’ by Matt Warman, former Minister of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

An attacker also requires authentication to exploit this vulnerability. Joseph Carson, chief security scientist and Advisory CISO at Thycotic, said the latest findings are not surprising, especially after the recent highly-visible serious security incident experienced by SolarWinds.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

CopperStealer is going after big service provider logins like social media and search engine accounts to spread additional malware or other attacks. Users should turn on two-factor authentication for their service providers.”. These are commodities that can be sold or leveraged.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

Already, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) members issued guidance governing securing authentication and access to financial institutions’ services and systems, including APIs. Prediction #5: Enterprising CISOs will see API security as an opportunity to innovate.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2020

Simply taking a pause from email and social media in favor of a good book or conversation is known to increase your mood and life satisfaction. Before implementing any long-term security strategy, CISOs must first conduct a data sweep. Disconnecting from your mobile device, laptop or tablet can be as good as a holiday.

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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. Security by Compliance will increasingly drive action.

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SC Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

With its tailored controls, micro-perimeters and trust-nothing approach to access, Zero Trust gives CISOs confidence that their security program can secure their remote workforce and meet regulatory compliance requirements. The post How to build a zero trust ecosystem appeared first on SC Media. James Carder, LogRhythm CSO.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2020

Related: How ‘credential stuffing’ enables online fraud As a result, some CEOs admit they’ve stopped Tweeting and deleted their LinkedIn and other social media accounts – anything to help reduce their organization’s exposure to cyber criminals. That’s the ‘cheat code’ for CISO success. Corporate inertia still looms large.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

discussion… The key is how remote access can be implemented securely – with strong authentication mechanisms, access controls, auditing, and session recording.”. There is a justifiable reason for providing remote access,” agreed Mike Hamilton, president and chief information security officer at CI Security and former CISO of Seattle.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Then there's the authentication process itself and it reminds me of a discussion I had with a bank's CISO during a recent workshop. Exactly, it's basic string-matching and this is really the point: judging banks by the same measures we judge basic authentication schemes is an apples and oranges comparison.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2021

” In response, Hodson urged all LinkedIn users to update their passwords and enable two-factor authentication. RestorePrivacy examined the sample posted online and found that it does appear to be authentic, linked to real users, and up to date. ” A Wake-Up Call for Social Media Users. “Bottom line?

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It was the summer cyberattack that had social media buzzing. New York should increase cybersecurity regulations as a result, especially for social media companies. This false log-in generated an MFA notification requesting that the employees authenticate themselves, which some of the employees did.".

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SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Joseph Carson, chief security scientist and Advisory CISO at ThycoticCentrify, said employees continue to fall for these scams because the notices are so authentic looking and it’s difficult to tell the difference from the real app. Carson said companies need better cyber hygiene via educating employees on ways to detect these scams.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

Moreover, a statement that SolarWinds supplied to SC Media said that the password was actually for a third-party application that was not connected with SolarWinds’ IT systems – though this was reportedly not mentioned during the public testimony. The concepts of least privilege and multi-factor authentication aren’t exciting, but essential.

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SC Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

It’s used in relation to threat actors leveraging the stolen credentials of one asset and using them on another to authenticate and propagate their attack. Everything from back-end servers to social media was compromised and the cryptocurrency ground to a halt. Morey Haber, CTO and CISO, BeyondTrust.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity examined a flood of inauthentic LinkedIn profiles all claiming Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at various Fortune 500 companies, including Biogen , Chevron , ExxonMobil , and Hewlett Packard. Some of the fake profiles flagged by the co-administrator of a popular sustainability group on LinkedIn.

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SC Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

We can talk about how it’s better to have passwords than not, or that two-factor authentication or multi-factor authentication is good. The post Cyber Solarium commissioner details work to be done on public-private partnership appeared first on SC Media. But we can’t tell you how good,” he said. “If

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SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Corporate Vice President of Security, Compliance and Identity Vasu Jakkal spoke to SC Media about lessons from a tumultuous year. Jakkal talked to SC Media about what the company learned during the year that was. Our CISO has a saying: Hackers don’t break in, they log in. Microsoft). What changed?

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

More threats were detected on iOS than Android devices; 68% of Australian CISOs expect their organization to suffer a material cyber-attack within the next year. 68% of Australian CISOs confessed that they expect their organization to suffer a material cyber-attack within the next year, compared to the rest of the globe.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 8, 2021

Hacktivism also moved up the stack in 2020, disrupting events through social media. The other prediction I made was passwordless authentication being on the security roadmap in 2020. As one CISO shared with me, “Our crisis response and subsequent focus on securing productivity pushed new initiatives to 2021.” Well, it was.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

By Curtis Simpson, CISO. Edge access remains critical and should always be tightly controlled, require multiple pieces of authentication to prove identity, and continuously monitored for abnormal and potentially malicious activity. Prior to Armis, he was the CISO at Sysco, a Fortune 54 corporation. Step Three - Address The Edge.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

We havent [sic] seen any Media articles on this and as such you should be the first to report it, we are sure they are just keeping it under wraps.” “The authentication for that was entirely separate, so the lateral movement [of the intruders] didn’t allow them to touch that,” Schafer said. In our Dec.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Zero trust requires that all users, whether in or outside the organization’s network, are verified and authenticated continuously. Most CISOs understand that zero trust doesn’t function as a single off-the-shelf solution they can implement easily. Narendran Vaideeswaran , senior product manager, CrowdStrike.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 21, 2019

Tortoises have no finances and, taken as a genus, they rarely have names and social media accounts. And then there is the more technical stuff for your CISO, whether that person is in-house or subcontracted. Employees should never authenticate themselves to anyone unless they are in control of the interaction.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 24, 2023

GDPR and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are just two very public representations of data protection, and we are seeing increased policy discussions around access to data in social media applications like Tik Tok. Many CISOs and CIOs still do not have visibility on where their data is and where it is going.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Business operators continue to expose themselves to Microsoft Exchange exploits and other damaging attacks due to a lack of multi-factor authentication, access control, patch management and other essential network security elements that they view as costly inconveniences that slow down productivity. appeared first on SC Media.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Mike Hamilton, president and chief information security officer at CI Security and former CISO of Seattle, told SC Media that the disparity in dates might simply be a matter of semantics. Our latest release of FTA has addressed all known vulnerabilities at this time,” said Frank Balonis, Accellion’s CISO, in a statement.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Similarly, a quarter of CISOs said that their job has affected their mental and/or physical health, as noted by Cyberscoop. We recently asked our social media followers what they do to prevent extreme stress and burnout. Helen Patton | Advisory CISO at Cisco.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 30, 2021

You might open a web interface to access email or launch your favorite social media app to connect with friends. Whether you are a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), software developer, or an everyday-API-consumer, following these best practices will allow you to better verify and trust each API interaction. Maps to API1-API10.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Its cutting-edge fingerprinting technology can attest to the authenticity of the entire supply chain, eliminating supply chain compromises. Software Consumers – CISOs, CIOs, procurement officers – can evaluate all their vendors’ SBOMs and deploy third-party software with assurance.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 8, 2020

Digitial Shadows says that many connect to video, music streaming, or social media. Here's what Rick Holland, CISO and VP of Strategy at Digital Shadows, has to say about the new data: “The sheer number of credentials available is staggering and in just over the past 1.5 What accounts do these credentials connect to?

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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. The post Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach appeared first on SC Media.

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