SC Magazine

APRIL 30, 2021

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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2022

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.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 8, 2021

Before you do either of those things—again—consider this: a new computer chip remains unhacked after DARPA and more than 500 cybersecurity researchers tried to break through its security. The name might have tipped you off to a key feature; it morphs before attackers can figure out how to crack the chip's security.

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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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SC Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

Cyber thought leaders were quick to acknowledge the importance of continued cooperation across federal, state and local jurisdictions, though several CISOs suggested that there wasn’t too much new ground covered and recommended ways the federal and state governments and private industry could do even more to assist overwhelmed municipalities.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

Moreover, a statement that SolarWinds supplied to SC Media said that the password was actually for a third-party application that was not connected with SolarWinds’ IT systems – though this was reportedly not mentioned during the public testimony. The concepts of least privilege and multi-factor authentication aren’t exciting, but essential.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

CISOs, HR executives and C-suite leadership all share the responsibility of building a SOC p eople want to join and finding the right team to staff it. The following steps can aid in solving security staffing issues: Design the physical SOC appropriately. Richard Cassidy, senior director, security strategy, Exabeam.

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SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Zero-day threats, phishing and social engineering attacks with associated ransomware are among the most persistent threats today’s CISOs and security teams face. The post ‘The people’ of cybersecurity are its greatest strength and weakness appeared first on SC Media.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 22, 2021

Industries represented in the study include high-tech, financial services, manufacturing, media, publishing, government and non-profit. “There’s little doubt that Zero Trust represents the future of network security. Appgate SDP is highly strategic to Zero Trust security initiatives.

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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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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Meanwhile, a study highlights how business decisions can derail OT security. Plus, get the latest on Active Directory security, CISO salary trends and ransomware attacks! Today, the story looks very different, as job turnover rates for CISOs have dropped significantly. However, they were in the minority.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Alyssa Miller, business information security officer at S&P Global Ratings, told SC Media that organizations who build out their programs from scratch tend to first stumble in two areas that underpin most threat intelligence programs: asset discovery and log management. “Any Starting from scratch.

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SC Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

.” “This bill, while providing red meat for ‘cyber hawks’ is a uniquely bad idea and a direct result of electing legislators that have no background in science or technology,” said Mike Hamilton, former chief information security officer of Seattle and current CISO of Critical Insight.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Business operators continue to expose themselves to Microsoft Exchange exploits and other damaging attacks due to a lack of multi-factor authentication, access control, patch management and other essential network security elements that they view as costly inconveniences that slow down productivity. appeared first on SC Media.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Network security: Includes Direct Connect (DC) private and public interfaces; DMZ, VPC, and VNet endpoints; transit gateways; load balancers; and DNS. Data Security: Encrypt data in transit and at rest, S3 bucket data (at rest), and EBS root volume and dynamo db.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

However, given the hybrid nature of the enterprise IT environment, organizations often face all the complexities of a zero trust security model without any of the benefits, even after a substantial investment in security tools and skilled staff. . Implicit trust doesn’t exist in zero trust . By removing implicit trust, zero trust?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

.” By multiplexing virtualized and independent logical networks on a physical network, organizations can isolate network segments to specific client verticals. There are no secure implementation guides or standards for network operators. Also Read: Top Enterprise Network Security Tools for 2021.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Formerly known as Accel Partners, the Palo Alto-based company is a top-tier VC firm investing in consumer and enterprise solutions for segments like SaaS , fintech, hardware, media, and IT services. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. Accel’s largest presence is in the Bay Area with sizable teams in London and Bangalore.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

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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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

However, while 75 percent of CIOs and CISOs believe the use of IoT within their infrastructure has increased their knowledge of how to protect them, around 20 percent say these devices will spread faster than they can be secured. The post Here’s how security pros can lock down their remote networks appeared first on SC Media.

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SC Magazine

MAY 3, 2021

The best vendor-customer relationships require mutual respect and open communication, experts noted to SC Media. End user organizations need to express their customer service needs and expectations, and security solution providers need to meet or exceed them. David Paul Morris/Getty Images).

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SC Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

On the flip side, just as security leaders should be scouring the open source community for talent, contributors to open source projects should be thinking about how they can use their unique skills to propel their careers forward, according to Bernard Brantley, the brand new chief information security officer at the aforementioned Corelight.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 31, 2021

Count Brandon Hoffman, CISO at Netenrich, among the believers. Hoffman said that even though ATT&CK is a “great framework,” security practitioners are often reluctant to devote a lot of time and energy to incorporating it into their operations out of concern there will be “nothing tangible to show for your efforts.”

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

Greg McCarthy, CISO of Boston. A password manager is a great way to keep long and strong passwords so you don’t have to log in,” said Coleman to SC Media. The post On first-ever Identity Management Day, experts detail steps to a better IAM program appeared first on SC Media.

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SC Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

Such efforts involved encryption, two-factor authentication, secure network access and cloud-based networking. For many companies, “if security was done during the pandemic, it was probably too late,” explained McCarthy’s colleague Sajed Naseem, CISO of New Jersey Courts.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cyber Observer’s partnership with Cisco enables CISOs to manage and monitor their cybersecurity eco-system posture. The Cigent Data Defense integration with Duo Security combined solution extends Duo’s multi-factor authentication to require zero trust access to sensitive files, external media, and internal storage on Windows PCs.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

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. It shouldn’t be the same as in your social media. Don’t know where to look for the right software?

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Encourage your key cyber professionals to develop first-rate security awareness training materials for employees and executive staff.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

We didn't have enough computer security experts at universities to teach it. A lot of universities, their curriculum starts with: here's a whole bunch of different areas of security. There's network security, software security, crypto, and then they go through the list of problems people have encountered throughout history.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

We didn't have enough computer security experts at universities to teach it. A lot of universities, their curriculum starts with: here's a whole bunch of different areas of security. There's network security, software security, crypto, and then they go through the list of problems people have encountered throughout history.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

We didn't have enough computer security experts at universities to teach it. A lot of universities, their curriculum starts with: here's a whole bunch of different areas of security. There's network security, software security, crypto, and then they go through the list of problems people have encountered throughout history.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It was the summer cyberattack that had social media buzzing. A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. New York should increase cybersecurity regulations as a result, especially for social media companies.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2023

“All of this means cyber risk continues to escalate and that CISOs need to be just as nimble and methodical as the adversary.”. Software supply chain issues like the SolarWinds attack and the Log4j vulnerability have made supply chain security and software dependencies major issues in recent years. .

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

discussion… The key is how remote access can be implemented securely – with strong authentication mechanisms, access controls, auditing, and session recording.”. There is a justifiable reason for providing remote access,” agreed Mike Hamilton, president and chief information security officer at CI Security and former CISO of Seattle.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Howard Taylor, CISO of Radware, goes so far as to call it the “death of trust.” While outward internet-facing IT resources, services, apps, and data get headline news coverage and bring awareness to security vulnerabilities, what’s commonplace yet off the media radar are threats that occur from within,” said Schulz.

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SC Magazine

MAY 21, 2021

And while it’s not always economically feasible to keep one’s tech upgraded and integrated, there are strategies for better positioning your organization in this manner, noted Wendy Nather, head of advisory CISOs at Cisco, speaking at the 2021 RSA Conference this week. Graphed correlations between security practices and desired outcomes.

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