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Today’s CISO Insights – How to Tackle the Quantum Threat

CyberSecurity Insiders

Due to this specific way of processing, quantum computers can also break many of the current encryption algorithms used to protect data. This is why CISOs everywhere should be concerned. Most likely his data is protected using current encryption algorithms and keys. It is safe, encrypted, and should take forever to decrypt.”

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MITRE ResilienCyCon: You Will Be Breached So Be Ready

eSecurity Planet

The conference’s focus on cyber resilience doesn’t mean that organizations should abandon core security defenses like EDR , access control and firewalls , but they should be prepared for the advanced threats that will, at some point, get past them. “ Immutable backups ” are often touted as the answer here.

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Five Tips for Ensuring Communications Security in Your Organization

CyberSecurity Insiders

Firewalls should be implemented between any wireless networks and the organization’s internal network. Firewall configurations should be implemented to restrict connections between untrusted networks and any systems in the protected information environment to only what is necessary. Set cryptography controls and encryption.

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Cybersecurity is a Successfully Failure

Security Boulevard

Next-generation firewalls are well, XDRing, IPS in prevention mode, and we had 100% attainment of our security awareness weekly training podcast. Yes, we even have email encryption of all outbound messages with complete data loss prevention enabled with multi-factor authentication! Cybersecurity is a Successfully Failure.

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Firms with exposed IoT have a higher concentration of other security problems

SC Magazine

And something simple, like ‘are you running the latest TLS encryption protocol?’ You have systems of internal network accessible from the internet, so potentially, you’ve got internet access and firewall policy issues. So, how can CISOs operationalize that kind of information? Well, a lot of things went wrong.

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Forging the Path to Continuous Audit Readiness

CyberSecurity Insiders

Answering this question has placed CISOs on a path towards continuous audit readiness that’s accomplished by automating audit processes, from Scope to Evidence. Protection mechanisms incorporates a wide variety of cyber defenses such as malware, encryption, vulnerability management and firewall technologies.

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The DDR Advantage: Real-Time Data Defense

Security Affairs

Speaking of zero trust, Dave Lewis , the global advisory CISO for Duo Security, offered some words of advice that could sum up the rationale of DDR in a soundbite: “Don’t trust something simply because it’s inside your firewall — there’s no reason for that.” Or, inside any of your access-controlled spaces, we might add.