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Five considerations for cloud migration, from the House of Representatives CISO

SC Magazine

“It’s about how you can do your business mission” in a different environment, with its own requirements for protecting data, Vickers said during his talk at the RSA Show’s Cloud Security Alliance CISO Summit. Other standards to consider are the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Controls and FedRAMP. Technical review.

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NEW TECH SNAPSHOT: The role of ‘MSSPs’ in helping businesses manage cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

The new normal CISOs face today is something of a nightmare. MSSPs have since broadened and advanced their services, a trend that continues as cloud migration gained momentum in the 2010s — and then accelerated with the onset of Covid 19. Network security has been radically altered, two-plus years into the global pandemic.

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NEW TECH: CASBs continue evolving to help CISOs address multiplying ‘cloud-mobile’ risks

The Last Watchdog

So if you’re a Microsoft shop, you’re on an Office 365 and a Windows 10 migration path. Some CISOs, at first, were reserved and said, ‘We’re not moving to the cloud.’ They don’t necessarily think that this is part of a cloud migration, until they start using AWS and Azure and moving their workforce fully into the cloud.

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Russia-linked Hackers Launch DDoS Attacks on U.S. Airport Websites

eSecurity Planet

How CISOs Should Respond. Andrew Bayers, head of threat intelligence at Resilience, told eSecurity Planet that the potential impact of attacks like these shouldn’t be underestimated, particularly for organizations that rely on Internet connectivity for key operations.

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RSAC insights: ‘SaaS security posture management’ — SSPM — has emerged as a networking must-have

The Last Watchdog

To accelerate cloud migration, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud guaranteed that the hosted IT infrastructure they sought to rent to enterprises would be security-hardened – at least on their end. Wave after wave of successful exploits took full advantage of the misconfigurations spinning out of cloud migration.

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MY TAKE: As network perimeters shift and ecosystems blend, the role of MSSPs solidifies

The Last Watchdog

I had the chance to discuss this with Shinichi Yokohama, NTT Global CISO and John Petrie, Counselor to the NTT Global CISO, at RSA Conference 2023. As companies adjusted in the post pandemic operating environment, Internet-centric services rose to the fore. Towards zero-trust So how should CISOs steer their organizations?

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RSAC insights: Security platforms arise to help companies discover, assess and mitigate cyber risks

The Last Watchdog

Pity the poor CISO at any enterprise you care to name. As their organizations migrate deeper into an intensively interconnected digital ecosystem, CISOs must deal with cyber attacks raining down on all fronts. CISOs need only to follow the principles honed over the past 200 years by the property and casualty insurance industry.