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

SC Magazine

Touhill brings a rich and diverse background to the role, having spent years protecting military computer networks as an Air Force brigadier general and later serving as director of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integrations Center at the Department of Homeland Security. chief information security officer.

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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.

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

SC Magazine

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? SC Media spoket o Kelly White, RiskRecon founder and CEO, to find out.

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Ransomware Protection: 8 Best Strategies and Solutions in 2021

Spinone

No wonder this threat keeps our client’s CISO and security teams up at night. Network Security: Firewall A firewall is your first line of defense or your computer network gatekeepers. To put it simply, a firewall is a gatekeeper for the incoming traffic, which may contain a ransom code.

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Health care’s security challenges spurred by constrained resources, limited staffing

SC Magazine

Although it’s clear many health care entities lack the spending resources needed for some crucial security decisions, using tools ineffectively or buying the most expensive tech is only furthering the resource constraints within an enterprise. vCISOs see a lot of things that go wrong within the tech sector,” he explained.

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Years overdue, the profile of the CISO begins to rise as cyber grabs attention in boardrooms

SC Magazine

With that, evidence shows, comes a far brighter spotlight on the role of the chief information security officer. While technically part of the c-suite, CISOs historically received less attention within a company than your average CEO or chief financial officer. Our profile is certainly getting higher. Failure to communicate.

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