The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2024

Assess risks. Creating a solid cybersecurity foundation begins with understanding the organization’s risks. A recent study found only 27% of charities undertook risk assessments in 2023 and only 11% said they reviewed risks posed by suppliers. Keep software updated. Strengthen authentication.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Businesses that had never even considered letting their teams work from home were suddenly thrust into a sink or swim environment where they simply had to make it work or risk stalling their operations. Security, perhaps unconsciously, took a backseat. Security misconfigurations and human error.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 28, 2023

Thanks are in order to BSides Leeds for publishing their presenter’s outstanding BSides Leeds 2023 security content on the organizations’ YouTube channel. Permalink The post BSides Leeds 2023 – Kim Hendry – The NSM Ouroboros: Embracing The Endless Cycle Of Network Security Monitoring appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Oftentimes, how organizations measure risk determines how they will prioritize investments. For IT professionals, building a set of metrics for security needs is often accompanied by feelings of anxiety, because if measurements look at the wrong data or indicators, they may lead to a false sense of security.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The post CISO Stories Podcast: Communications Before, During and After a Breach appeared first on Security Boulevard. Figuring out what to do after a breach is the wrong time to start the planning process.

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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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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

All organizations must have security awareness training programs to teach basics to end users. The post CISO Stories Podcast: Fiscally Responsible Ways to Train and Build Community appeared first on Security Boulevard. Similarly, the technical teams need to be exposed to flexible training that is interesting to them.

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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 same philosophy applies to ABCWUA’s installation of its cloud-based enterprise network security software.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

Today, most CISOs in the enterprise space have decades of experience. They’ve led teams covering everything from threat intelligence to security/privacy by design initiatives, navigated tricky transitions like the one from on-prem to the cloud, and become prominent business leaders in their companies. Join us on February 23rd .

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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. I think this is going to be magnified as an issue as we look at supply chain risk management, and we’ve already been working on that for years now.

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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. By increasing visibility into DNS traffic, CISOs can detect, block, and respond to incidents more quickly as well as use this data to institute new controls and increase overall resiliency.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 29, 2022

What is the role and engagement with risk management to determine the business requirements for the SOC? As an organization, knowing you only have “ten swords” to deal with every possible cyber security threat in the coming year, how do you then deploy your resources? What is the current overall risk composite of the organization?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

Every June, Gartner hosts a terrific security conference near Washington, D.C. 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.

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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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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. Today, c yber security incidents lead to significant damage, alarming organizations of all types and sizes in different geographic locations.

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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. . Respondents said blurring the boundaries between work and personal computing exacerbates the problems.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Blue team members might be led by a chief information security officer (CISO) or director of security operations, making this team the largest among the three. Blue teams consist of security analysts, network engineers and system administrators.

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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. Many are working with siloed security products from another era that serve as mere speed bumps. See, assess, mitigate.

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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.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 17, 2022

By Tyler Farrar, CISO, Exabeam. The key to this apparent contradiction is the role played by legacy tech and the limitations of security solutions designed before the cloud era. In most scenarios, CISOs have three choices when considering a move away from legacy tech: 1.Take Unfortunately, so were cyber adversaries.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Those findings appear in The State of Microsegmentation in Network Security , a Byos report that details the results of a Q3 2021 survey of 100 cybersecurity leaders. In an interview with eSecurity Planet , Byos founder and CEO Matias Katz discussed the findings and their implications for network security in general.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 8, 2021

The above statement illustrates this problem space and is an actual statement that a CISO at a large healthcare organization made to me. In the years since, I’ve worked with customers like our above CISO to build effective segmentation policies by leveraging the visibility provided by Secure Network Analytics.

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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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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

JupiterOne CISO Sounil Yu, creator of a Cyber Defense Matrix adopted by OWASP, noted the concentration of security products in protection and detection and wondered, “Is our industry actually solving the right problems? The general lack of focus on resilience, response and recovery is largely reflected in vendor offerings too.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

There’s a frantic scramble going on among those responsible for network security at organizations across all sectors. This, in short, is the multi-headed hydra enterprises must tame in order to mitigate rising cyber risks. Enter SOAR, the acronym for “security operations, analytics and reporting.” Smart money.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Before co-founding Cyolo, Almog Apirion was a CISO for 15 years. “I With my co-founders, we formed a team to build the tool I always wanted while I was a CISO. What sets Cyolo apart is that we are security realists and understand the day-to-day reality of cybersecurity.”. “For Arctic Wolf.

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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. . Manky concurs. .

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

See the top Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) tools. Proposed SEC Security Changes. Also read: What is Cybersecurity Risk Management? However, in turn, those policies are supposed to address the risks of the organization. Compliance through consequences.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 16, 2022

The Security Outcomes Study, Volume 2 , found that BCDR showed significant correlations with positive outcomes, including: . Obtaining peer support and buy-in for security . Identifying and managing top risks . A CISO recently told me that his infrastructure was like an ultimate brownie pan: all edges.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 7, 2022

I've spent my 20-plus-year career in cybersecurity, working closely with IT administrators, CIOs, CISOs, architects, and others to understand what they're up against and the capabilities that would truly help them sleep better at night. Now, secure access is based on digital identity, also known as the identity perimeter.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In other words, only 4% of vulns in any given environment pose a real risk. Through risk-based prioritization informed by comprehensive exploit intel and vulnerability intelligence, coupled with advanced data science. RBVM + Exploit Intel = Lower Risk. Risk-based prioritization reduces exploitability. Drive down risk.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 19, 2020

Sherry brought to Princeton his 25 years of technology experience, 12 of which was in higher education as the former CISO at Brown University. In many ways, leading a security mission out of a university is like securing a city. A recent risk assessment began to expand, and we started a publicity blitz….

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

Is it surprising that there’s a correlation between something like IoT exposure and other security issues? The data shows that smaller indicators of cybersecurity risk performance, particularly on the negative side are strong indicators of larger problems. So, how can CISOs operationalize that kind of information?

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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.” But the mere presence of closet security testers secretly carrying out pentests on partner and customer internet-facing resources could have serious repercussions on relationships if discovered. Taylor terms this “shadow compliance.”

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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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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

And a key part of building out any cybersecurity policy for your local government is to develop an organizational understanding of risk to systems, people, data, and so on. In Michigan’s Cyber Partners Program , for example, local communities receive services from a CISO-level consultant. Adopt the fundamentals.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Water and wastewater treatment is among the most at-risk areas of critical infrastructure that exists today, said Grant Geyer, chief product officer at Claroty. discussion… The key is how remote access can be implemented securely – with strong authentication mechanisms, access controls, auditing, and session recording.”.

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