SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It is a common feeling in the cybersecurity community that CISOs do not sleep well at night. CISOs worry about the latest incident, end of life technology in their environment, breaches in the news, insecure users and vendors, penetration testing results, budget and resources, and the latest vulnerability report (to name a few).

CISO 100

CISO Penetration Testing Technology Antivirus 100

CSO Magazine

APRIL 6, 2023

When I asked CISOs about their cyber threat intelligence (CTI) programs about five years ago, I got two distinct responses. For these organizations, threat intelligence programs were nothing more than blocking indicators of compromise (IoCs) with firewalls, endpoint security software, email gateways, or web proxies.

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Cyber threats CISO Firewall Software 109

CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I had a lovely chat with one of my favorite CISOs the other day, helping them think through the security metrics that they report upwards. Disclosure: I used to be CISO at Akamai.] At best, they are a measurement of activity , not of effectiveness. To read this article in full, please click here

CISO 101

CISO Firewall 101

Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2025

For more information about the threat from nation-state cyber attackers: What CISOs Need to Know About Nation-State Actors (InformationWeek) 4 Ways to Defend Against Nation-State Attacks (BankInfoSecurity) Growing Nation-State Alliances Increase U.S. Tenable was one of the 68 original signatories of the pledge.

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Cybersecurity Software Cyber Risk Risk 52

Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Always keep your eyes open to control-rights of the senior IT managers or systems administrators with the authority to configure servers, firewalls, cloud storage, and file-sharing (or another network privilege).

Security Awareness 40

Security Awareness Risk Cyber threats Cyber Risk 40

The Last Watchdog

JULY 8, 2021

Dom Glavach, CSO and chief strategist, CyberSN. Bill Lawrence, CISO, SecurityGate.io. VPNs, firewalls, email gateways have all been misused recently to gain a foothold with privilege inside an organization’s network without having to phish a user or hope for open RDP to compromise. Tom Garrubba, CISO, Shared Assessments.

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Ransomware Hacking Software Architecture 257