Mitnick Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As a CISO, you're always looking for the next big breakthrough to increase your organization's overall security posture. Next-generation firewalls (NGFW), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and sophisticated anti-virus software are great, but the answer to strong cybersecurity starts with your weakest link: your employees.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

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. Take a holistic approach, focusing on the real risks to business continuity and optimizing the cybersecurity investment.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Working as CISO, DeSouza's areas of expertise include strategic planning, risk management, identity management, cloud computing, and privacy. While it fosters innovation, automation, and productivity, it simultaneously introduces significant cybersecurity and privacy risks. Zero Trust has come of age.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

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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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

On August 3, 2021, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) released a report entitled “Federal Cybersecurity: America’s Data Still at Risk.”. The modern CISO is more than “IT security.” The Risk Management Framework doesn’t take into account that the human is the new perimeter of the enterprise.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

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. However, such modernization is not without risk. Route 66 runs through downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. Asaavedra32, CC BY-SA 3.0

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

Prediction #2: Leaders will see APIs as representing both security and business risks. That’s because the lack of control, security, and governance around APIs doesn’t just increase risks, it is also operationally inefficient. Prediction #4: Organizations will right-size data storage to reduce risks.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We need to work with many different teammates on campus — risk management, legal, compliance and institutional review boards, to name a few — to effectively manage cybersecurity risk across our communities. They see the investment in MFA as critical to a campus cybersecurity program and managing risk for a campus.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 30, 2021

But ultimately, what we’re trying to do is to reduce the risks to national security and national prosperity by hardening and strengthening that cyber ecosystem. That model has been overcome by things like [smartphones] and mobility and the firewalls are very difficult to configure and maintain. And that’s been overcome.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 15, 2023

Even organizations that think they’re protected against DDoS attacks may be more at risk than they think. When CISOs evaluate their IT infrastructure, they assign scoring priorities to different systems. However, there are risks associated with this approach. However, there are limitations to this strategy.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

And the role he/she needs to play is to track down any potential cyber risks existing in the IT infrastructure and keep it free from issues such as data theft, Ddos attacks and ransomware attacks. CISO or Chief Information Security Officer – A CISO’s role is to plan, design and implement security strategies across the organization.

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SC Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

As a result, many organizations are finding they need someone beyond the CISO to lead this effort at the organizational level. Samford says a CPSO needs to work in close partnership with the CISO. Corman adds that CPSOs serve a different role and need to go beyond being versed in firewall rules and incident response.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

A foundational approach to cybersecurity empowers CISOs to see abnormalities and block threats before they do damage. These developments have made the perimeter so porous that the old approach of simply hiding behind a firewall and keeping the rest of the world at bay is no longer feasible. by David Ratner, CEO, HYAS ( www.hyas.com ).

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

He has been a CISO for 20 years and has extensive global IT and security leadership and transformation experience. He loves strategic planning, risk management, Zero Trust, Software Defined Perimeter, and Self-Sovereign Identity. It can be used to drive innovation but yet poses risks to intellectual property and security.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2024

Protects data in motion | As they state, “Data is most at risk when in motion, so that’s when DDR scans it.” Data Detection and Response relies on real-time monitoring, detection of risks, and response to better protect data.” Something must be off. Or, inside any of your access-controlled spaces, we might add.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

called Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. This event is focused on the needs of senior IT and security professionals, such as CISOs, chief risk officers, architects, IAM and network security leaders. They looked at “risk” through analogies, and spoke about what can be controlled and what can’t.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Increased risk of cyberattacks The rising cost of living can lead to an increase in cybercrime, as people become more desperate to make money. I think it requires taking a step back and assessing what you can do with less," said Chris Roberts, CISO and Senior Director at Boom Supersonic. This is more critical now than it's ever been."

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

The level of risk today means it makes financial sense to adopt both options when just one fatal blow could bring a company to its knees. It is no longer enough to rely on endpoint protection and firewalls to defend the organization. Contextualize risk. Breaking down risk into different contextual groups is vital.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. This, in short, is the multi-headed hydra enterprises must tame in order to mitigate rising cyber risks.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Also read : Is the Answer to Vulnerabilities Patch Management as a Service?

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Next-generation firewalls are well, XDRing, IPS in prevention mode, and we had 100% attainment of our security awareness weekly training podcast. With over 1000 plus vendors going to great lengths to show their greatest over their competitors, the consuming enterprise CISO and CIO will continue to breach, data exfiltration, and ransomware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For many of these hospitals and rural clinics, insufficient security measures dramatically escalate the risk of an attack. By making sure employees are aware of common attack vectors, what a ransomware attack is, and how to report suspicious activity, CISO’s can ensure there is always a first line of defense against hacking attempts.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

In case you missed them, below is a brief recap of some of the Cisco sessions, including a fight that almost broke out between the Incident Response (IR) team represented by Matt Olney, Talos’ Intel Director, and Wendy Nather, Head of Advisory CISOs. In addition, Matt personally prefers the newer MFA system than the age-old firewall system.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

The data shows that smaller indicators of cybersecurity risk performance, particularly on the negative side are strong indicators of larger problems. You have systems of internal network accessible from the internet, so potentially, you’ve got internet access and firewall policy issues. Well, a lot of things went wrong.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 6, 2022

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. And the usual collection of security tools – firewall, endpoint detection, intrusion detection, SIEM, etc.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In this article we will learn how to address and effectively respond to major enterprise cybersecurity threats and provide tips to mitigate IT security risk. Be On Your Guard with the Most Treacherous Insider Roles A paramount priority when addressing the threat is to distinguish the fundamental insider risks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 9, 2023

The rise of hybrid workplaces, shadow IT/DevOps, and cloud infrastructure dynamics continue to create cybersecurity risks. Answering this question has placed CISOs on a path towards continuous audit readiness that’s accomplished by automating audit processes, from Scope to Evidence.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 12, 2023

This vulnerability management policy defines the requirements for the [eSecurity Planet] IT and security teams to protect company resources from unacceptable risk from unknown and known vulnerabilities. Broader is always better to control risks, but can be more costly.] Vulnerability Management Policy & Procedure A.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Ponemon chairman and founder Larry Ponemon said in a statement that “Most of the IT and security professionals regard their organizations as vulnerable to these attacks,” and that growing adoption of technologies such as cloud, mobile , big data , and the Internet of Things (IoT) are adding to that risk.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 25, 2023

According to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence announcement , Volt Typhoon gains initial access to targeted organizations through internet-facing security devices, specifically Fortinet FortiGuard firewalls. Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist and Advisory CISO at Delinea: "The recent Volt Typhoon warning from Microsoft is alarming.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2022

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. This includes all approved wireless networks.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 27, 2023

More than 320 attendees gathered to hear Donna Ross, SVP & CISO at Radian Group, and Eric Robuck, a Certified Ethical Hacker, and watched Robuck use ChatGPT and MidJourney live from the stage to create somewhat cringe-worthy content. That's the power—and perhaps risk?—of of artificial intelligence. "AI

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Herjavec Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

History shows he’s the first person to wrap the remote management business model around firewalls, from a small office on the east coast of Canada., In 2003, he knew that firewalls were too complex for all IT staff and for understaffed companies to manage. He and his tiny team of 3 people, began the world’s first MSSP.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

SIEM enables security teams to detect and respond to threats, manage incident response, and minimize risks. Around that time, most CISOs and security teams were drowning in a sea of data accompanied by too many security alerts, many of them not actionable. Today, SIEM accounts for approximately $4.4 billion globally by 2027.

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Spinone

JULY 29, 2020

Some of the typical responsibilities and tasks include: Configuring technical security controls Conducting an app risk assessment Whitelisting/blacklisting apps Performing penetration testing For app security engineers, it’s vital to control SaaS apps and the risks related to them. Risky and insecure apps should be blacklisted.

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SC Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

The added security layer will change the underlying IP address of the VSA servers, which will be transparent for almost all customers, but will require an update to any IP whitelist for firewalls that included the Kaseya VSA server, the latest update on the Kaseya website noted. The new IP addresses can be found here.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2019

ExtraHop’s CISO Jeff Costlow walked me through what’s different about the approach NTA vendors are taking to help companies detect and deter leading-edge threats. Imposter apps and browser extensions masquerading as legit tools represent a clear and present risk that companies must account for. Practicing restraint.

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