SC Magazine

APRIL 30, 2021

Gregory Touhill, former federal chief information security officer and deputy assistant Homeland Security secretary for cyber security operations, seen here at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in 2015 in Washington, DC. chief information security officer. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Security administrator- Already this position is facing a lot of talent scarcity as the job designation needs the person to install, administer and troubleshoot any security software like anti-virus solutions, patch management systems and firewalls- resolving tickets from time to time.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2024

Crooks manipulate GitHub’s search results to distribute malware BatBadBut flaw allowed an attacker to perform command injection on Windows Roku disclosed a new security breach impacting 576,000 accounts LastPass employee targeted via an audio deepfake call TA547 targets German organizations with Rhadamanthys malware CISA adds D-Link multiple (..)

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Arun DeSouza is the Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Privacy Officer for Nexteer Automotive. He has been a CISO for 20 years and has extensive global IT and security leadership and transformation experience. A : The World Economic Forum found that 95% of security incidents are due to human error.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

For example, companies with exposed IoT are more than 50% more likely to have email security issues, according to a new report and blog post from the Cyentia Institute and RiskRecon. But what does that correlation mean for chief information security officers? So, how can CISOs operationalize that kind of information?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2024

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.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The award-winning AT&T SASE with Fortinet broadens that reach, layering in controls like secure web gateway, firewall as a service (FWaaS), cloud access security broker (CASB) and zero trust network access (ZTNA) into the mix.

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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. Security Administrator An IT security admin is a role that includes a wide range of skills and responsibilities to manage the protection of the company’s data.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This is part of protecting your campus and driving down information security risk for your campuses, but it also helps protect your faculty, staff, researchers and students from loss of productivity when a problem arises. “We

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 30, 2021

Using this list as a backdrop the following best practices are presented as a call to action to help organizations take a proactive approach at addressing API security risk. This step should align with existing web security best practices such as having a web or API firewall which can parse and validate traffic.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 4, 2021

The same goes with the advent of Quantum Computing , which is supposed to bring exponential computing power that shall not only bring endless benefits but also raises question marks on the current state of cryptography that is the bedrock of all information security as we know today. Data Firewall. Data security.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

The following year, Ponemon research showed the majority of healthcare organizations find it difficult to recruit security staff, with nearly 50% reporting that they don’t have a chief information security officer on staff. Virtual CISOs are another option, and their use has been rapidly increasing in the health care space.

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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. 12 bug notification, and it was “not until the week of Jan. Future exploits, however, are a constant threat.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Executives from security company Kaspersky speak at a global partner conference about information security is a key business success factor – a reality that is starting to shine a brighter spotlight on security chiefs. Ian Gavan/Getty Images for Kaspersky Lab ). Our profile is certainly getting higher.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 12, 2023

For example, a vulnerability in a wi-fi router firewall configuration may expose Windows 95 machines required to run manufacturing equipment. Common mitigations include, but are not limited to: Deploy mitigating security control such as a new security tool (Firewall, etc.)

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

GCIS was a Davos-level conference with no vendors and no selling, where scores of chief security information officers (CISOs), top CEO’s, industry and government thought leaders and leading innovators discussed the myriad challenges in and around cybersecurity and possible solutions in today’s environment.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

Until now, organizations have relied on firewalls, intrusion detection and similar techniques to protect their data. You almost certainly need a chief information security officer (CISO). Also, it’s not unusual for regulators to assess multi-million dollar fines to companies that don’t properly protect customer data.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Cyber threat management , being an advanced discipline, craves analytical attention and a commander’s strategic skills of information security executives to confront and overcome the multi-dimensional cyber threats.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 22, 2021

The increasingly distributed nature of IT – with data and applications living in and being accessed through the cloud, outside of traditional data centers protected by firewalls and antivirus software – is helping to fuel the zero-trust push, which states that identity is key. ” Most Devices Communicate in Plaintext.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Alyssa Miller, business information security officer at S&P Global Ratings, told SC Media that organizations who build out their programs from scratch tend to first stumble in two areas that underpin most threat intelligence programs: asset discovery and log management. Starting from scratch.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 14, 2021

Know the business objectives inside out One of the key challenges in aligning security with business objectives is that information security/data security executives (i.e. CISO/Chief Information Security Officer) are often too concerned about security and not the overall business objectives.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Network Security: In this module, you will learn more about how to secure network: firewalls, password managers, and more. Cybersecurity: The CISO’s View: You’ll know about the pillars and rules that assure cybersecurity, find out about the role of the Chief Information Security Officer.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

But in the wake of the attack, manychief information security officers (CISOs) realized that PDNS was the answer to early detection and resiliency against similar attacks simply because log4j was surprisingly easy to detect at a DNS level.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 1, 2023

The broad categories consist of: IT Distributors typically sell one-off IT equipment such as firewalls , Wi-Fi routers , network access controllers (NACs), and servers that do not require significant modifications for installation and integration; distributors outsource some selling and installation functions, but not much for IT departments.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 26, 2022

Osterman Research explores why organizations early to embrace MDR services report higher security posture across multiple dimensions in. The Rush to MDR: Achieving the Promise of Elevated Security Posture. Over the years, Ray built, managed, and grew a number of security teams — but he also offloaded some capabilities to MDR providers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2024

Private Plane Owners’ Data Linked to LA Intl.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 21, 2021

Based on the notion of “never trust, always verify”, Zero Trust has given enterprises some guiding principles to build a new security stack that is better suited for the modern-day organization. The path to a Zero Trust posture is not linear, and the tall claims by security vendors often cloud the decision-making.

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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. As someone who has sat in the role of CISO for many years, I can offer a variety of perspectives. But in the end, we are still getting hacked.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

As of now, the information security industry is at the outset of implementing SBOM for software products. While CIOs, CISOs, and purchasing managers often make a faith-based decision on software, greater accountability in software development starting below the OS can lead to more data and risk-driven decisions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

These kinds of stories are reported with so much frequency that data-rich companies – and the chief information security officers (CISOs) responsible for their IT network security – have resigned themselves to the certainty that they will become the target of a cybersecurity breach.

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Daniel Miessler

AUGUST 31, 2019

If you’re on any security team at a junior to mid-level, these are exactly the types of things you’re likely to spend your first few years working on. Technical skills So many of these are a combination of soft and hard skills. Tech skills can really help here, but the best teacher is experience on this one as well.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

When we started our identity management journey… we were struggling with defining it,” admitted Greg McCarthy, chief information security officer with the city of Boston. “We Greg McCarthy, CISO of Boston. We wanted… a clear definition [so that] our users would understand what we’re doing.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

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