Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2018

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). Nobody’s saying these companies don’t have CISOs and/or CSOs and CTOs in their employ.

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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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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In response to continuing waves of data breaches and network disruptions, companies have made a concerted effort and poured substantial resources into promoting data security awareness among employees, suppliers and clients. Safeguarding data in workplace settings gets plenty of attention.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Following news that noted fashion brand Guess suffered a data breach in which personal information may have been stolen, cybersecurity experts on Tuesday said that retailers should take this case as motivation to lock down their cyber defenses. A Guess retail store. N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0 link] , via Wikimedia Commons).

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Security Boulevard

MAY 9, 2023

In today’s technological world, educating people about cybersecurity awareness is an absolute necessity. According to one report, 82% of data breaches involved the human element, from social attacks to misuse of technologies.

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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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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Security incident response and forensics are at the top of every CISO’s capability list. Rob Lee, SANS Institute chief curriculum director and faculty lead, discusses the skills and new levels of preparedness security teams and businesses must have to deal with the onslaught of supply.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 7, 2021

When the security industry talks about a data breach, often the first question asked involves the state of the victim’s network security – not the breach of data. It’s because organizations have their security priorities backward, and that needs to change. Why is this?

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In 2021 alone we’ve seen data breaches impact many Fortune 500 companies. Cybercrime is a growing threat to corporations, governmental agencies and individuals throughout the world. Chief executive officers and chief technology officers know this is a potentially existential threat both for their companies and for them professionally.

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Spinone

JULY 29, 2020

To automate your job and remain time-efficient, you’ll probably need specialized software that helps you with app security assessment and whitelisting/blacklisting. A DPO must be appointed in organizations working with large-scale systematic monitoring or processing of sensitive data.

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SC Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

MFA with a phone or fingerprint adds an element of physical security, and an extra layer of protection that security teams should have in place for their users.”.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Sponsored by CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the.gov domain comes with several key security benefits: MFA is enforced on all accounts in the.gov registrar, and user accounts cannot use passwords that have been found in known data breaches. Employee security awareness training.

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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 Deryck Mitchelson, EMEA field CISO for Check Point, chimed in on this point. Be kind, help them understand the bigger picture,” she said.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2021

While there is no way to guarantee against data breaches, securing the human element can help mitigate security threats and improve the integrity of your remote work systems. In a survey of UK&I CISOs, 55% said that human error posed a risk no matter what protections are in place.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To train your employees and protect company data from human mistakes and, therefore, costly data breaches; 3. 3 Basic Cyber Security Training Courses For Everybody The best cyber security courses online listed below contain the information everybody must know to keep their data safe in the high-risk online environment.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 27, 2022

The source of the Uber Files has been identified as Mark MacGann, The post Uber’s Latest Shenanigans appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 4, 2021

Oliver Paterson, Product Expert, VIPRE Security Awareness Training and Safesend , explains. We often see million-pound enterprises on the news when they suffer from a data breach, such as Estée Lauder, Microsoft and Broadvoice.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

No wonder this threat keeps our client’s CISO and security teams up at night. We know it firsthand – helping them to keep data safe is our job as a SaaS data protection company. Weak password policy is the reason behind up to 81% of data breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 6, 2021

This installment features Jason Lau , CISO for Crypto.com and an official member and contributor on the Forbes Technology Council. He is also an adjunct professor and industry advisory board member (cybersecurity and data privacy) at the HKBU School of Business. Data breaches were happening all the time (and still are!),

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NopSec

JUNE 26, 2015

We have installed SIEMs, firewalls, IDPs, vulnerability scanners, malware and virus detection, authentication, identity and access management systems, data loss prevention technology, encryption, sandboxes, anomaly detection tools, phishing and spam prevention. All this, and we continue to see daily headlines about data breaches.

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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. Tyler Farrar ,CISO, Exabeam. ” Danny Lopez, CEO, Glasswall.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

Greg McCarthy, CISO of Boston. The vast majority of data breaches making headlines are the result of poor identity management. ,” said fellow panelist Tom Malta, head of IAM at the Navy Federal Credit Union. “It Twitter , Marriott , Nintendo … the list goes on.”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2019

In the case of legitimate interests, a business must be able to prove to EU Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) that the collection of personal information is essential for fulfilling a specific service to its customers, and the business can only keep the personal data for as long as it takes to fulfill that service.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2022

We should not be focused so much on the organization’s Return on investment or Return on asset around security spending; we should consider for a moment that with every significant security awareness training, every adaptive control, and every security policy only makes the task “of being hacked” even more expensive for the cybercriminals.

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