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How to find, fund and fix cyber risk blind spots

SC Magazine

Today’s columnist, Sean McDermott of RedMonocle, says that companies should use the NIST 800-53 security and privacy controls to help find cyber risk blind spots. After that, companies need to fund and then fix the security gaps. That’s how many CISOs and security leaders feel in the “find” stage.

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International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Appoints CyberSecurity Expert Witness Joseph Steinberg To Computer Crime & Digital Evidence Committee

Joseph Steinberg

Veteran cybersecurity expert witness executive will help strengthen law enforcement capabilities to prevent, investigate, and prosecute information-age crimes. Steinberg has helped many organizations improve their management of cyber risk, and has assisted attorneys in achieving just compensation for parties wrongly harmed by cyberattacks.

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How MFA and Cyber Liability Insurance Effectively Manage Risk in Higher Education

Duo's Security Blog

One area where campuses have been collaborating recently are changes around cyber liability insurance for higher education, an opportunity for campus cybersecurity teams to combine forces with their risk management team. Higher education campuses in the U.S.

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Salary given to cybersecurity specialists in UK

CyberSecurity Insiders

Cyber Security Analyst is paid £40k as a minimum basic pay and the max he/she can get is £80k. And the role he/she needs to play is to track down any potential cyber risks existing in the IT infrastructure and keep it free from issues such as data theft, Ddos attacks and ransomware attacks.

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CyberSaint STRONGER 2022 Conference Call for Speakers is Open!

CyberSecurity Insiders

BOSTON–( BUSINESS WIRE )– CyberSaint , the developer of the leading platform delivering cyber risk automation, today announced that the company is seeking speaker submissions for its virtual STRONGER conference, set to occur September 13th-15th 2022. The post CyberSaint STRONGER 2022 Conference Call for Speakers is Open!

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Episode 209: Fortinet’s Renee Tarun on Scaling InfoSec To Meet Tomorrow’s Challenges

The Security Ledger

The information security industry needs both better tools to fight adversaries, and more people to do the fighting, says Fortinet Deputy CISO Renee Tarun in this interview with The Security Ledger Podcast’s Paul Roberts. The information security industry is simultaneously robust and beset by problems and challenges.

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SPOTLIGHT: Women in Cybersecurity

McAfee

Forrester also predicts that the number of women CISOs at Fortune 500 companies will rise to 20 percent in 2019 , compared with 13 percent in 2017. This is consistent with new research from Boardroom Insiders which states that 20 percent of Fortune 500 global chief information officers (CIOs) are now women — the largest percentage ever.