Remove CISO Remove Cyber Attacks Remove Information Security Remove Social Engineering
article thumbnail

‘The people’ of cybersecurity are its greatest strength and weakness

SC Magazine

Senior security and IT leaders point to employees and their companies’ own supply chains as the source of constant risk of malicious and unintentional vulnerabilities, exacerbated by remote work and cloud-based environments. . Click here to download the full report, “Are people missing from your cybersecurity strategy?”

article thumbnail

Red Team vs Blue Team vs Purple Team: Differences Explained

eSecurity Planet

Blue team members might be led by a chief information security officer (CISO) or director of security operations, making this team the largest among the three. Blue teams tend to be larger because they must prevent all attacks, while red teams may simply select a few specific attacks to pursue.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Security Researchers Find Nearly 400,000 Exposed Databases

eSecurity Planet

The semi-annual report’s findings quantify the gap between respondents’ readiness for attacks and their probability of being breached. The CRI report surveyed over 3,500 chief information security officers (CISOs), IT professionals and managers from Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe, and South America in the latter part of 2021.

article thumbnail

GUEST ESSAY: 6 steps any healthcare organization can take to help mitigate inevitable cyber attacks

The Last Watchdog

Increasing security savvy at home can motivate employees to go further to protect your organization’s network and the customer information on it. In addition, make it easy to report security concerns (phishing, data leaks, social engineering , password compromise, etc.). Develop plans and playbooks.

article thumbnail

7 Cyber Security Courses Online For Everybody

Spinone

This course covers a broad range of security topics, explaining it with a simple language. Here are only seven out of 26 topics: Insider threats Passwords Security of mobile devices Social engineering Viruses Email security Human error To start the course, you need to register and choose the type of account you need.

article thumbnail

Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

article thumbnail

Important Strategies for Aligning Security With Business Objectives

Security Boulevard

Know the business objectives inside out One of the key challenges in aligning security with business objectives is that information security/data security executives (i.e. CISO/Chief Information Security Officer) are often too concerned about security and not the overall business objectives.