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. Cybersecurity officials struggle in Florida. DeSantis appointed former state Rep.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 31, 2021

Last September, Twitter hired Rinki Sethi as its new chief information security officer. Other major companies to recently install a new CISO include Uber and Square. Two major themes emerged from the research and interviews conducted with CISOs. Justin Sullivan / Staff).

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SC Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

SolarWinds this week announced that its vice president of security Tim Brown has taken on the additional title of CISO, as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to institute a secure-by-design posture. (“ SolarWinds letters” by sfoskett at is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ). Hard to say. Only my paycheck.”.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

A conversation with Tim Callahan, chief information security officer at Aflac. One of a series of security leadership profiles prepared by Cybersecurity Collaborative in conjunction with SC Media. Tim Callahan is chief information security officer at Aflac. What makes a successful security leader?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Even among top tech firms, less than half list a chief technology officer (CTO). KrebsOnSecurity reviewed the Web sites for the global top 100 companies by market value, and found just five percent of top 100 firms listed a chief information security officer (CISO) or chief security officer (CSO).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 14, 2022

“Information security analyst” tops the U.S. The list ranks the 100 best jobs across 17 sectors including business, healthcare and technology, taking into account factors such as growth potential, salary and work-life balance. News & World Report 2022 Best Jobs list. News & World Report. Tough Contenders.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

Beyond the expected, we must also keep watch for the unpleasant surprises that can severely disrupt the security, trust, and capabilities of our digital world. Recovery from supply chain attacks will cost 3x-5x more as compared to data breaches. Nation-state attacks on supply chains will double in 2024. In 2024: 1.

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Cisco Security

JULY 12, 2021

Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across the Global 2000 and Fortune 1000 are obsessed with protecting the workforce endpoints as critical vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity and risk management posture of their enterprises. Should a risk-conscious, security-aware culture be considered a critical security control?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 26, 2021

With data breach rates rising and criminal attack methods becoming more sophisticated each day, it is essential for every organization to take security seriously. Even if a company employs a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or Chief Security Officer (CSO), the position may still report to the CIO.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2022

By mid-2021, 51 percent of all organizations had reported a successful data breach, and 61 percent had paid a ransomware attacker to restore frozen data and systems. Seven Cloud Security Predictions CISOs Can Use in 2022. They can no longer simply say no to activities that challenge the firm’s security posture.

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BH Consulting

APRIL 27, 2021

More and more organisations are making information security a priority. Data breaches and cyber attacks are, unfortunately, becoming a regular occurrence. At the same time, many companies are increasingly asking organisations they work with to show they handle all data securely. Comply with regulations.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As a security analyst at the pioneering security firm Internet Security Systems (ISS) Caleb was happy to prove them wrong and turned what he learned exposing security weaknesses in corporate websites into a thriving business: SPI Dynamics, which was sold to HP in 2007. Once more unto the (data) breach!

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Hospitals will be required to implement comprehensive cybersecurity programs, including vulnerability assessments, access controls, and security awareness training for their employees. I view it as a welcomed step in helping security teams secure the funding and support they need to keep our heads above water.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 15, 2022

I was joined by Liz Waddell, Incident Response Practice Lead at Cisco Talos , who’s often there at ground zero for data breaches, helping teams put out fires in remediation. And finally, Christos Syngelakis, CISO, and Data Privacy Officer at Motor Oil Group. Lead with, “How can I make your life easier?”.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2021

tag=IT Security'>IT Security</a> Protecting customer data from loss and leakage has become a top priority for enterprises over the past decade. Furthermore, data visibility was cited as the number one cybersecurity weakness, closely followed by an inability to meet regulatory challenges. Request a Demo.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

At the same time – in fact, as a direct result of data’s central importance – more adversaries are working harder and finding more nefarious ways to steal or otherwise compromise your data. As just one measure, the number of data breaches in the first nine months of 2021 exceeded all those in 2020, a new record.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 21, 2024

The report identified a “widening” inequality between organisations that can withstand security incidents and those that are struggling. And to complicate things, emerging technology is challenging organisations’ ability to stay resilient. Symantec has identified many of the tools gangs use to remove data from compromised networks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS–( BUSINESS WIRE )–According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2021 “Cost of a Data Breach” report, the average total cost of a data breach in the United States is $9.05 The report goes on to say that it takes an average of 287 days to identify and contain a data breach. million – up from $8.64

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2023

Acronis downplays the severity of the recent security breach explaining that only a single customer’s account was compromised. The CISO of Acronis downplayed a recent intrusion, revealing that only one customer was impacted.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For the last eight-plus years, I've been working as a fractional Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Before that, I worked as a full-time CISO for an insurance company for seven years. So, the first insurance company says, "Hey, if you have a data breach, we want to hear about that within 48 hours."

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 6, 2019

In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast (#156), we're joined by Michael Coates, the former Chief Information Security Officer at Twitter and the CEO and co-founder of Altitude Networks.* » Related Stories Unsecured Database Exposes Data of 80M U.S. Secure Everything. Read the whole entry. »

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2022

According to the IBM Cost Per Breach Report for 2019, the average total data breach cost increased from $3.86M in 2018 to $4.24M in 2019. Organizations with a more mature security posture tended to have lower fees and better risk management than those without. I have west and south Taipei technology park.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Security is an ongoing process that requires multiple steps. Let’s look specifically at how this applies to the ‘Secure IT’ sub-theme for NCSAM 2019. Organizations cannot secure their information technology (IT) simply by training everyone in the organization to identify and avoid falling victim to a phishing attack.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Rising attacks against critical infrastructure Data Breach Today reported that cyberattacks against Ukrainian critical infrastructure have intensified during 2023. “In It misused operational technology to make changes in the operating environment. Deryck Mitchelson, EMEA field CISO for Check Point, chimed in on this point.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

According to thought leaders, the compromise of video data could result in intellectual property theft, physical security threats, privacy violations, extortion and perhaps regulatory punishment. Odds are more than one was breached here,” said Davisson. “I Of course, for some institutions, this is not practical.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 24, 2021

tag='></a> Protecting customer data from loss and leakage has become a top priority for enterprises over the past decade. Recent HelpSystems research with CISOs in global financial service organizations found that almost one-third believe data breaches have the potential to cause the most damage over the next 12 months.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 23, 2018

23% of respondents say they do not currently have a CISO or security leader. The Dentons Privacy and Cybersecurity Group operates at the intersection of technology and law, and has been singled out as one of the law firms best at cybersecurity by corporate counsel, according to BTI Consulting Group. .

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

But the SAO is accusing Accellion of being less than forthcoming, with officials explaining in a virtual press conference and a public statement that it was not aware of any security incident at Accellion until the Jan. The card companies encrypt it and don’t transmit or share the information,” he continued. ” . .

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SC Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

This surge of malicious activity at hospitals comes as no surprise to security professionals. Healthcare has emerged as the industry most targeted by cybercriminals, with one-third of all data breaches in the United States occurring in hospitals. Jeff Costlow, chief information security officer, ExtraHop.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

According to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, ransomware has increased by 13% over the previous year — a jump greater than the last five years combined. Our long-term vision is to adopt a zero-trust security framework, and we have taken our first step.” Today, we can start with securing user access.

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NopSec

JUNE 26, 2015

Information security professionals have a single core mission: to understand technological risks and take the necessary steps to protect information assets from harm. We have conducted training and raised security awareness throughout the organization. But it is evident that we are missing many things.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

And they traced the cybersecurity failures to a lack of leadership and a vacant Chief Information Security Officer role: "The problems started at the top: Twitter had not had a chief information security officer (“CISO”) since December 2019, seven months before the Twitter Hack.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Broadly speaking, cybersecurity professionals are individuals who have been trained to protect data via various different methods. Recent large data breaches and politically-motivated cyber crime are some of the reasons why the need for such individuals as standard in many organizations has been identified.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 6, 2021

The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification is considered to be the gold standard in information security. Those doors lead to many different types of positions and opportunities, thus making the information security community dynamic and multifaceted.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Insurers “are pushing for areas of improvement and focus,” said Brandon Hoffman, chief information security officer at Netenrich, though “it is hard to tell whether those actually align with best practices or if they somehow fit into their actuarial science conveniently.”.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Armis researchers surveyed more than 2,000 professionals in May, which showed most users don’t pay attention to major cybersecurity attacks against critical infrastructure and operational technology entities, such as the attack against Colonial Pipeline in early May. Previously, data theft was the primary concern.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Examples of this include keeping software up to date, backing up data, and maintaining good password practices. At the end of the day, lack of education and human error are two of the largest contributors to data breaches. Jon Clemenson, director of information security, TokenEx. Tyler Farrar ,CISO, Exabeam.

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