The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2019

So they began inundating their third-party suppliers with “bespoke assessments” – customized cyber risk audits that were time consuming and redundant. Kneip also painted the wider context about why effective third-party cyber risk management is an essential ingredient to baking-in security at a foundational level.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 8, 2024

CISOs can sometimes be their own worst enemy, especially when it comes to communicating with the board of directors. Related: The ‘cyber’ case for D&O insurance Vanessa Pegueros knows this all too well. She serves on the board of several technology companies and also happens to be steeped in cyber risk governance.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2025

This surge is driven by a convergence of factorsfrom a spike in ransom ware attacks to the digital transformation of healthcarethat CISOs and healthcare executives must understand and act upon. Breaches can disrupt care delivery and put lives at risk, not to mention lead to hefty compliance fines.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In this post, we look at the enforcement actions the SEC has taken and what public company CISOs should do to stay in compliance. As part of their fiduciary duties, boards play a key role in the oversight of risks from cybersecurity threats. This pushed C-level executives and boards to adopt measures for compliance and transparency.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 18, 2025

Organisations invest heavily in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) and risk management efforts while neglecting foundational elements like leadership and culture. Without these foundations, all the technology in the world wont secure your organisation. However, technology alone cannot solve the security puzzle.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2024

CISOs have been on something of a wild roller coaster ride the past few years. Given carte blanche, many CISOs purchased a hodge podge of unproven point solutions, adding to complexity. Today, with purse strings tightened – and cyber risks and compliance pressures mounting — CISOs must recalibrate.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 6, 2023

So it's fitting that a recent SecureWorld webcast, sponsored by Spirion, tackles the topic of "Does ChatGPT Belong on Your Cyber Risk Register? CEO of Global Cyber Risk LLC, offers this advice: "You need to have a process for evaluating the risks associated with that technology, in this case Chat GPT.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Cyberrisk is business risk. But how should we communicate this risk to the business, to clients, or to investors? Accenture annual report: risks we face from cyberattacks. However, we were most interested in seeing how Accenture articulated a particular business risk: the risk from a cyberattack.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2022

Third-Party Risk Management ( TPRM ) has been around since the mid-1990s – and has become something of an auditing nightmare. Related: A call to share risk assessments. This is because third-party risk has become a huge problem for enterprises in the digital age. Cyber risks profiling. based CyberGRX.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

We have moved beyond traditional compliance-driven security models to risk-based approaches, integrating cybersecurity into enterprise risk management (ERM) frameworks. This led to a reactive approach where organizations were more focused on regulatory adherence than on actual security risk management.

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Joseph Steinberg

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The IACP is the publisher of The Police Chief magazine, the leading periodical for law enforcement executives, and the host of the IACP Annual Conference, the largest police educational and technology exposition in the world. The IACP is a not-for-profit 501c(3) organization, and is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. patent filings.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This affected all levels of the cybersecurity landscape, and it has had a particularly broad impact for those in the C-Suite, specifically, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). So, what is an already over-stressed CISO to do? Technological update. Technological integration. Practices with strong success Impact.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 30, 2025

Cyber risk remains top of mind for business leaders A regular January fixture, the World Economic Forums Global Risk Report 2025 features two technology-related threats among the top five risks for the year ahead and beyond. The report ranks risks by severity over two-year and 10-year timeframes.

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Given the connectivity needs of a remote workforce – and knowing a hybrid workforce is here to stay – many IT teams have had to make sudden changes in the way workers connect to corporate systems that could introduce new cyber risks and vulnerabilities. . Cloud dominance . Security landscape requires adaptation .

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 26, 2023

In a LinkedIn post today, June 26th, Jamil Farshchi, EVP and CISO at Equifax, had this to say about the news: "This is a really big deal. It's unprecedented: this is likely the first time a CISO has ever received one of these. So it seems odd for a CISO to get one of these," he wrote. federal securities laws."

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 17, 2023

As a result, cybersecurity has become a top priority for organisations of all sizes, and the C-suite, including CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and CISOs, plays a critical role in managing and mitigating cyber risk. Email remains the primary communication tool for businesses, but it also poses significant security risks.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Curtis and I discuss the growing cyber risks posed by Internet of Things devices within enterprise networks. IoT and OT (operation technology) deployments are growing and pose challenges to organizations that are still. Curtis and I discuss the growing cyber risks posed by Internet of Things devices within enterprise networks.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 31, 2023

Sam Masiello , CISO, The Anschutz Corporation: "I would expect that many CISOs today are feeling as if their job just got harder and now has a brighter spotlight shining specifically on them. Many CISOs are already burnt out, and there is shortage of qualified CISOs globally. CISOs are expected to be a unicorn already.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

I spoke with Maurice Côté, VP Business Solutions, and Martin Lemay, CISO, of Devolutions , at the RSA 2020 Conference in San Francisco recently. We hide the complexity of all these providers and all of these technologies,” Côté told me. Managing the complexity of all these identities makes it easier for staff to do their work. “We

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2024

We had a wide-ranging discussion about the limitations of traditional third-party risk management ( TPRM ), which uses extensive questionnaires—and the honor system – to judge the security posture of third-party suppliers. With “companies approaching 100 percent third-party integration,” CISOs are making TPRM a top priority, he says. “It’s

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Consumers and organizations are enthused about the operational benefits of more robust mobile connectivity, but the shift to 5G networks doesn’t come without risks. Here we’ll discuss the most significant risks posed by 5G, how U.S. Table of Contents What Are the Cybersecurity Risks of 5G? How is 5G Different?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 30, 2023

Seasoned CISOs/CSOs understand the importance of effectively communicating cyber risk and the need for investment in cybersecurity defense to the board of directors. To ensure cybersecurity becomes a strategic part of the corporate culture, it is crucial for CISOs to present the topic in a clear, concise, and compelling manner.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 25, 2021

Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) have the luxury of being an incredibly hot commodity, so they can pretty much pick and choose where they work, as they are almost guaranteed to have a job waiting for them somewhere. And this is increasing cyber risk. Cybersecurity officials struggle in Florida.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Lesson 4: AI Risk Management Playbook Learn to implement the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, governing AI risks with actionable methods for mapping, measuring, and managing AI-driven security challenges. Implementing the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, Including 2.0 Why attend a SecureWorld PLUS course?

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 30, 2025

Strategic Advisor & vCISO, Sentinel Technologies; and moderator Dave Malcom , President & CEO, Malcom Risk Advisors. Top threats and vulnerabilities Discover the primary attack vectorslike phishing, ransomware, supply chain vulnerabilities, and insider threatsthat are putting SMBs at risk.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Thanks to technology, continual rapid change is here to stay. I went through some of them this week at the Cyber Security Virtual Conference: Celebrating Women in Cyber, and with PWC Canada when they engaged me to open their one day event – SheProtects: Future CISO Program. on the horizon. Tip 2 – Believe you can do it.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 10, 2022

Joe Hubback of cyber risk management startup ISTARI led both the panel and the study, which was based on in-depth interviews with more than a hundred high-level security officials, including CISOs, CIOs, CEOs, security and tech vendors, evaluation organizations and government organizations.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The vulnerabilities and challenges associated with declining worker mental health is causing cybersecurity risks to increase, especially from insider threats. Mental health cyber risks. A key takeaway is that the increase in cybersecurity threats is now not just a CISO’s responsibility.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2025

1 - How to choose cyber secure OT products If your organization is shopping around for operational technology (OT) products, CISA published a guide in January 2025 aimed at helping OT operators choose OT products designed with strong cybersecurity features. In case you missed it, heres CISAs advice on six cybersecurity areas.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

5, 2023 — Kovrr , the leading global provider of cyber risk quantification (CRQ) solutions, announces the release of its new Fortune 1000 Cyber Risk Report, shedding light on the complex and ever-evolving cyber risk landscape across various industry sectors and the respective financial repercussions companies may consequently face.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2023

This morning, Critical Start released its first ever Cyber Risk Landscape Peer Report , which explores some of the major concerns and challenges currently confronting cybersecurity leaders as they manage risk within their organizations. Here are some comments on the cyber risk landscape from cybersecurity vendor experts.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

Visa has been a leader in establishing a risk operations center. We see a rapid shift in large enterprises towards thinking and communicating their posture in terms of risk. We see a new, dedicated function arising, the risk operations center (ROC). Executives are very good at making decisions based upon risk.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

This, in short, is the multi-headed hydra enterprises must tame in order to mitigate rising cyber risks. Last Watchdog had the chance to visit with Michael Sutton, former longtime CISO of cloud security vendor Zscaler, who recently signed on as advisor to a fresh, new SOAR startup, Syncurity. Smart money.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The pre-COVID-19 CISO. The global COVID-19 pandemic has been a tumultuous time for Chief information security officers (CISOs) who on any given day have a long and complicated list of responsibilities. An explosion of cyber risks and a complicated and constantly changing threat landscape.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2025

In practice, even with reasonable service level agreements (SLAs), IT usually has to mitigate those risks. Just as alarming, the Tenable Cloud Risk Report 2024 shows that 74% of organizations have publicly exposed storage assets, including those containing sensitive data. This is where exposure management comes in.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

Nowadays, organisations need digital leaders such as CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs who are strategists, visionaries, and know how to manage, effectively. The pressure for those in charge is immense as cyber risks have scaled, and can now bring businesses, economies, and communities to a halt. billion) is expected online.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Recent amendments have focused on addressing vulnerabilities linked to digital transformation in aviation, such as the use of cloud technologies and IoT devices. What Are the Requirements for IATA Cyber Security Regulations? Risks of Non-Compliance: Financial Penalties: Fines and sanctions from regulatory bodies can be substantial.

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