SC Magazine

MARCH 31, 2021

Last September, Twitter hired Rinki Sethi as its new chief information security officer. Other major companies to recently install a new CISO include Uber and Square. Two major themes emerged from the research and interviews conducted with CISOs. Justin Sullivan / Staff).

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Cisco Security

APRIL 26, 2021

Insights from our new Advisory CISO, Helen Patton. If there’s anyone who’s been put through their paces in the security industry, it’s Helen Patton , our new Advisory Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). And before that she spent about 10 years as a security leader at JPMorgan Chase. Q: Welcome, Helen!

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SC Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

SolarWinds this week announced that its vice president of security Tim Brown has taken on the additional title of CISO, as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to institute a secure-by-design posture. (“ SolarWinds letters” by sfoskett at is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ). Hard to say. Only my paycheck.”.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Today’s columnist, Steve Durbin of the Information Security Forum, offers advice to Chris DeRusha the new federal CISO. Durbin says the Biden administration has a great opportunity to work with the broader security community towards fostering security awareness and the need to protect data privacy.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 10, 2023

One approach to understanding and explaining this is to consider whether, as a CISO, you are a Builder, Fixer, or Scale Operator. There are many ways of grouping security leaders. Helen Patton helps CISOs understand how they should spend their time by discussing seven circles of security : Technology, data, business, etc.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Executives from security company Kaspersky speak at a global partner conference about information security is a key business success factor – a reality that is starting to shine a brighter spotlight on security chiefs. Ian Gavan/Getty Images for Kaspersky Lab ). Our profile is certainly getting higher.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

A conversation with Dawn Cappelli, vice president and chief information security officer at Rockwell Automation. One of a series of security leadership profiles prepared by Cybersecurity Collaborative in conjunction with SC Media. Dawn Cappelli is VP and CISO at Rockwell Automation. Find out more here.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

A conversation with Tim Callahan, chief information security officer at Aflac. One of a series of security leadership profiles prepared by Cybersecurity Collaborative in conjunction with SC Media. Tim Callahan is chief information security officer at Aflac. What makes a successful security leader?

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 28, 2022

• What actions can cybersecurity product vendors and cybersecurity service providers take in order to best attract the attention of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other potential purchasers of the firms’ respective offerings? •

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SC Magazine

APRIL 1, 2021

When Steve Katz was named chief information security officer of Citibank in 1995, he was given two directives: build the best information security department in the world and limit the damage from the 1994 hack of the bank’s funds transfer system. Click here to access all available episodes of CISO Stories.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

“It will be interesting to know if security people are even in the conversations about how to bring people back to work. My guess is they’re probably not,” said Helen Patton, advisory CISO with Cisco’s Duo Security. “I I suspect that security people, as is historically the case, will be stuck in react mode.” .

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SC Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

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. House of Representatives.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Building a security awareness training program to develop a strong infosec culture requires time and money, and chief information security officers frequently try to make a case for such an investment by citing return on investment and other metrics of success. Huisman also had some advice for CISOs trying to make a case.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The new partnership with Silicon Valley CISO Investments will include an additional $250,000, but perhaps more importantly, support and guidance from the more than 55 practicing chief information security officers that make up SVCI.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Bill Bowman, CISSP, CIPM, is the Chief Information Security Officer & Data Privacy Officer at financial software company Emburse. He has been a first-hired CISO at five different companies. He is the father of five children and gives talks on helping families work through social media and technology challenges.

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SC Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

Security and usability are not mutually exclusive, and effectively combining these concepts can help organizations overcome the cyber skills gap, according to Google Cloud Chief Information Security Officer Phil Venables, speaking at an RSA Conference keynote session. Click here for more coverage of the 2021 RSA Conference. “I

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SC Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

It is a CISO’s nature to worry. Listen to episode 5 of CISO Stories, …and Other Useless Security Constructs. Click here to access all available episodes of CISO Stories. The post Listen: 2BSecureLLC’s Robert Bigman on building a defense against the known enemy appeared first on SC Media.

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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. The post Water utility CISO offers tips to stay secure as IT and OT converge appeared first on SC Media.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 30, 2021

Gregory Touhill, former federal chief information security officer and deputy assistant Homeland Security secretary for cyber security operations, seen here at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in 2015 in Washington, DC. chief information security officer. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images).

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Like other senior executives, chief information security officers must educate board members about problems, solutions, strategies, and budgetary needs. But, unlike many other senior leaders, CISOs must endure the challenge of articulating very technical information in a way the board can understand. Here’s Why.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

The primary target and focus for nation-states will continue to be their adversaries Critical Infrastructure sectors, such as healthcare, government, communications, transportation, defense industrial base, media, utilities, finance, and cargo logistics. Companies will want to avoid serious brand impacts and may be quick to blame CISOs.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

Since Paul Hypki moved from the finance world (or, what he calls, “wealth and hellness”) to healthcare, he’s had to convince industry leaders of why they need to invest in information security — something that was a given in his previous environment. Listen to episode 7 of CISO Stories, Is CyberSecurity ROI Necessary?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

We see a similar dynamic with social media platforms, where the “user” is not the customer at all but the product whose data is being bought and sold by these platforms. But the company never acted to fix it until the news media came calling. “The [employee] did not request a waiver or risk acceptance from the CISO.”

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SC Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

A conversation with Jason Witty, head of cybersecurity and technology controls, and global chief information security officer for JPMorgan Chase. One of a series of security leadership profiles prepared by Cybersecurity Collaborative in conjunction with SC Media. Find out more here.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

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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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

For client-facing efforts, drive foot traffic or media attention with family-focused educational events in your community. Incorporate security education into corporate volunteer or mentoring programs. Want to show thought leadership? Give back to community?

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SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Senior security and IT leaders point to employees and their companies’ own supply chains as the source of constant risk of malicious and unintentional vulnerabilities, exacerbated by remote work and cloud-based environments. . Click here to download the full report, “Are people missing from your cybersecurity strategy?”

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SC Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

The rapid, overnight shift exposed new cyber risk blind spots and gaps unknown to security leaders or executive teams. The long-term impact of security issues and understanding how to prevent them weighs on the shoulders of chief information security officers (CISOs), who are now front and center in every business conversation.

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SC Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

The Collaborative convened the Cloud Computing Task Force of roughly 15 CISOs in February. The Cybersecurity Collaborative launched a Cloud Security Task Force with the mission of helping organizations guide their migrations and secure ongoing digital transformation initiatives. Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

LinkedIn has experienced a few security incidents in the last couple years, as threat actors frequently target the social media site to execute malicious cyber campaigns.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

According to local media, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro announced that the authorities have identified the threat actors behind the attack. Brazilian media outlet CISO Advisor claims it has viewed an internal report on the security breach incident that suggests the threat actor was a cybercrime organization financially motivated.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Fallout of social media abuse It’s easy to dismiss a teenager cleverly using rogue Tweets to sell gullible victims on a too-good-to-be-true, get-rich-quick scheme as a triviality. However, the Twitter Bitcoin hack highlights the capacity for social media to be abused for malicious purposes. There’s really no excuse for this.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It was the summer cyberattack that had social media buzzing. New York should increase cybersecurity regulations as a result, especially for social media companies. The Twitter Hack demonstrates the need for strong cybersecurity to curb the potential weaponization of major social media companies.".

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Forrester also predicts that the number of women CISOs at Fortune 500 companies will rise to 20 percent in 2019 , compared with 13 percent in 2017. This is consistent with new research from Boardroom Insiders which states that 20 percent of Fortune 500 global chief information officers (CIOs) are now women — the largest percentage ever.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2020

Related: How ‘credential stuffing’ enables online fraud As a result, some CEOs admit they’ve stopped Tweeting and deleted their LinkedIn and other social media accounts – anything to help reduce their organization’s exposure to cyber criminals. That’s the ‘cheat code’ for CISO success. But it’s only a baby step.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 23, 2022

2 Talk to your CISO. Few chief information security officers (CISOs) have a close relationship with the board in their organisations?—?many 7 Practise dealing with the media. Serious cyber incidents will hit the headlines, so you need to have a media management strategy ready to limit any reputational damage.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

If or when more attacks are uncovered, end-user organizations will need to apply the lessons learned from SolarWinds and prepare to take swift and decisive action, infosec experts agreed in a series of interviews with SC Media. SC Media reached out to SonicWall, which continues to decline comment at this time.

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