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Five considerations for cloud migration, from the House of Representatives CISO

SC Magazine

Companies transitioning to the cloud have to think of cybersecurity as more than firewalls, access controls and incident response, and define goals of security that go beyond confidentiality, integrity and availability, said Randy Vickers, chief information security officer for the U.S. Sean Gallup/Getty Images). Technical review.

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NEW TECH: CASBs continue evolving to help CISOs address multiplying ‘cloud-mobile’ risks

The Last Watchdog

Nassar: On a personal level, we use our mobile devices to access just about everything from our email, to our banking, to social media collaboration, to sharing photos with family, it’s all in a cloud-mobile environment. Some CISOs, at first, were reserved and said, ‘We’re not moving to the cloud.’

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Startup Traceable turns to CISO investors for next phase of growth

SC Magazine

Their platform operates as both a web application firewall and run time application self-protection, using machine learning to monitor their customers’ APIs and applications, identify baseline user and application behaviors and over time, learn how to best to detect and block malicious activity.

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Why CISOs at gaming companies need to reimagine security

SC Magazine

The hack of Words with Friends in 2019 was high-profile, but today’s columnist, Yuval Elddad of CYE, says CISOs at all gaming companies have to take a closer look at the growing threats to online gaming platforms. The post Why CISOs at gaming companies need to reimagine security appeared first on SC Media.

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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 post Water utility CISO offers tips to stay secure as IT and OT converge appeared first on SC Media. Asaavedra32, CC BY-SA 3.0

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GUEST ESSAY: Addressing DNS, domain names and Certificates to improve security postures

The Last Watchdog

Although, the topic has gained popularity amongst CIOs and CISOs, most companies are still overlooking important security blind spots when it comes to securing their digital assets outside the enterprise firewalls—domains, DNS, digital certificates. Security goes beyond the firewall, not just behind it.

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New SEI CERT chief and first ever federal CISO: old cybersecurity models have ‘been overcome’

SC Magazine

SC Media caught up with Touhill this week to learn how he hopes to make an impact in his new role, what issues and projects he plans to prioritize in his first year and how the old cybersecurity models we’ve relied on no longer work. He was then appointed as the first-ever U.S. chief information security officer. And that’s been overcome.

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