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RSAC insights: Security platforms arise to help companies discover, assess and mitigate cyber risks

The Last Watchdog

Pity the poor CISO at any enterprise you care to name. As their organizations migrate deeper into an intensively interconnected digital ecosystem, CISOs must deal with cyber attacks raining down on all fronts. Many are working with siloed security products from another era that serve as mere speed bumps. See, assess, mitigate.

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Water utility CISO offers tips to stay secure as IT and OT converge

SC Magazine

Kristin Sanders, CISO for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, revealed how New Mexico’s largest water and wastewater utility has been addressing the security challenge. The same philosophy applies to ABCWUA’s installation of its cloud-based enterprise network security software.

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A Reactive Cybersecurity Strategy Is No Strategy at All

CyberSecurity Insiders

A foundational approach to cybersecurity empowers CISOs to see abnormalities and block threats before they do damage. But what are your options for proactive protection when the notion of a walled-in network has been shattered by the proliferation of new IoT devices, growth of cloud services, and new hybrid work from home models?

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NEW TECH: Will ‘Secure Access Service Edge’ — SASE — Be the Answer to Secure Connectivity?

The Last Watchdog

Locking down web gateways and erecting a robust firewall were considered the be-all and end-all. Related: The shared burden of securing the Internet of Things. Company networks must support endless permutations of users and apps, both on-premises and in the Internet cloud. Today, connectively is a convoluted mess.

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

SC Magazine

And that’s certainly borne itself out in the IoT report where you have a 62%, greater flaw density, observable flaw density and environments where they are operating IoT devices on the internet. Let’s say you had a printer operating on the internet. So, how can CISOs operationalize that kind of information?

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IoT Devices a Huge Risk to Enterprises

eSecurity Planet

When millions of people around the world were sent home to work at the onset of the global COVD-19 pandemic, they left behind not only empty offices but also a host of Internet of Things (IoT) devices – from smartwatches to networked printers – that were still connected to corporate networks and cranking away.

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Five Tips for Ensuring Communications Security in Your Organization

CyberSecurity Insiders

To help you improve your organizational communications security, consider the following tips: Implement network security controls. Network security should be managed and controlled to protect your organization from threats that may originate externally or internally. This includes all approved wireless networks.