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Black Hat insights: JupiterOne’s whodunnit puts CISOs on the trail of solving a devastating breach

The Last Watchdog

Related: A call to regulate facial recognition That said, a few dozen CISOs attending Black Hat USA 2023 will get to experience, hands-on, what it must have been like to be in the crucible of milestone hacks like Capital One, SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline. San Diego or New York City , feel free to skip ahead.

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Why Predator is the ultimate CISO movie

Javvad Malik

There’s often a lot of debate as to what the best security or hacking movie is. The movie starts on the outskirts of a jungle and the CISO (Arnie) with his team land in their helicopters. This is a perfect metaphor for how a CISO operates in day to day situations. This shows how quickly a CISO can get burnt out on the job.

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GUEST ESSAY: Recalibrating critical infrastructure security in the wake of evolving threats

The Last Watchdog

For all the discussion around the sophisticated technology, strategies, and tactics hackers use to infiltrate networks, sometimes the simplest attack method can do the most damage. The recent Unitronics hack , in which attackers took control over a Pennsylvania water authority and other entities, is a good example.

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How the CISO has adapted to protect the hybrid workforce

IT Security Guru

As CISOs embark on their transformational journeys, identifying these areas of weakness should be the top priority. This has led to CISOs shifting how they approach protecting the corporate perimeter with additional controls and monitoring tools being used to scan any access to the network. Cloud dominance .

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Public Sector Mega-Vendor Tyler Technologies Says It Was Hacked

The Security Ledger

Tyler Technologies, the U.S.’s ’s largest provider of software and services to the public sector said on Wednesday that it was hacked by unknown assailants, who gained “unauthorized access” to the company’s IT and phone systems. Read the whole entry. » Read the whole entry. »

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Wells Notice Against SolarWinds CISO Could Be First of Its Kind

SecureWorld News

In a LinkedIn post today, June 26th, Jamil Farshchi, EVP and CISO at Equifax, had this to say about the news: "This is a really big deal. It's unprecedented: this is likely the first time a CISO has ever received one of these. So it seems odd for a CISO to get one of these," he wrote. federal securities laws."

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CISO Stories Podcast: So You Want to be a Cyber Spy?

Security Boulevard

Ira Winkler, CISO at Skyline Technology Solutions, recounts his amazing journey from wannabe astronaut to NSA intelligence analyst, social engineer, systems hacker and author, and some of the crazy things that happened along the way - check it out. The post CISO Stories Podcast: So You Want to be a Cyber Spy?

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