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Best Practices Q&A: Guidance about what directors need to hear from CISOs — from a board member

The Last Watchdog

CISOs can sometimes be their own worst enemy, especially when it comes to communicating with the board of directors. She noted that most board members are non-technical, especially when it comes to the intricate nuances of cybersecurity, and that their decision-making is primarily driven by concerns about revenue and costs.

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What the White House’s Cybersecurity Strategy Means for CISOs

Security Boulevard

Cybersecurity is a huge concern. Businesses and individuals stand to lose a lot of time and money in the event of an unauthorized exposure or corruption of sensitive data. The post What the White House’s Cybersecurity Strategy Means for CISOs appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Black Hat insights: JupiterOne’s whodunnit puts CISOs on the trail of solving a devastating breach

The Last Watchdog

Related: A call to regulate facial recognition That said, a few dozen CISOs attending Black Hat USA 2023 will get to experience, hands-on, what it must have been like to be in the crucible of milestone hacks like Capital One, SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline. The Data Heist’s opening night, if you will, was in Boston a couple of weeks ago.

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What Should CISOs Prioritize In A Volatile Landscape?: A Webinar With Top CyberSecurity Columnist Joseph Steinberg

Joseph Steinberg

Have you been prioritizing Detection and Response over Protection when it comes to your cybersecurity strategy? All three, of course, are key pillars of the NIST cybersecurity framework – so, why are you prioritizing two of them over the third? The post What Should CISOs Prioritize In A Volatile Landscape?:

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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 2/16/24

Security Boulevard

In 2023, Contrast Protect blocked 12 million legitimate attacks (including zero days such as the recent Confluence remote-code execution [RCE] vulnerability ) out of 4 billion detected attack events. The post Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 2/16/24 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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14 lessons CISOs learned in 2022

CSO Magazine

These events and many more have changed the business landscape and forced CISOs to steer a course through uncertain waters. We also saw, for the first time, a security chief sentenced to prison for concealing a data breach.

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GUEST ESSAY: Could CISOs be on the verge of disproving the ‘security-as-a-cost-center’ fallacy?

The Last Watchdog

So how will this affect chief information security officers (CISOs) and security programs? Given the perennial skills and staffing shortage in security, it’s unlikely that CISOs will be asked to make deep budget or staffing cuts, yet they may not come out of this period unscathed. Related: Attack surface management takes center stage.

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