The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

This has exponentially expanded the attack surface available to motivated, well-funded threat actors. This, in short, is the multi-headed hydra enterprises must tame in order to mitigate rising cyber risks. Sutton: SOAR was born out of the gap between what SIEMs were supposed to be and the rising sophistication of cyber threats.

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NopSec

MAY 11, 2022

We described in the previous blog post the difference between vulnerability management and risk management. A quick reminder: vulnerabilities are the weaknesses an organization has internally while risks are the threats existing externally that potentially could harm the organization. Let’s dig in to see how that works.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 9, 2021

What is the difference between insider threats in the movies and those at your organization? John Checco, Resident CISO at Proofpoint, says it is usually the amount of drama involved. Director, Infrastructure Security at FINRA on the SecureWorld broadcast Mitigate Insider Risk in Financial Firms. And much more.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Security and risk management leaders must rethink their balance of investments across technology, structural, and human-centric elements as they design and implement their cybersecurity programs.” 2 Each day brings new threats and challenges, further compounded by artificial intelligence (AI).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 17, 2022

Knowing When to Move Threat Detection, Investigation and Response (TDIR) to the Cloud. By Tyler Farrar, CISO, Exabeam. What’s preventing organizations from allocating more funds to technologies that will make it easier to define, implement and operate effective threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR) programs?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2024

Simbian helps every member of the security team from the CISO to the frontline practitioner solve their unique security needs in real-time. While security vendors are increasingly using GenAI, off-the-shelf GenAI models come with many security risks, including hallucinations, prompt injection risks, and exposure of PII and confidential data.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 9, 2021

What is the difference between insider threats in the movies and those at your organization? John Checco, Resident CISO at Proofpoint, says it is usually the amount of drama involved. Director of Infrastructure Security at FINRA, on the SecureWorld webcast Mitigate Insider Risk in Financial Firms.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

But hiring a full-time chief information security officer (CISO) is not always possible for organizations – nor is it always needed. Read on to learn why you might want to consider a virtual CISO (vCISO), and the benefits that come with that decision. As we mentioned, hiring a full-time CISO is not always possible – or necessary.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to speak before a group of CISOs about the topic of attack surface management (ASM). To make things even harder, there is no generally agreed upon and common SaaS security shared responsibility model and each new deployment, configuration, and integration can change the risk calculus.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 1, 2023

The findings echo a report by Aimpoint Group, W2 Research, and CISO Connect, which revealed that 42% of 400 chief information security officers (CISOs) identified API security as their primary concern. Data Theorem’s platform is designed to identify and remediate potential security risks. Version 3.0

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For example , Accurate Threat Detection was one of our top drivers , but what technologies, processes, and staffing models help achieve success in this arena ? What about insourcing or outsourcing threat management? . Figure 2: Effect of staffing models on perceived threat detection and incident response capabilities.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 28, 2020

The majority of CISOs and CIOs are clear: remote work brings a cybersecurity risk. According to a recent survey from PwC, 61% of CISOs and CIOs have seen cybersecurity risks increase during the shift to remote employees. For CISOs and Security Awareness Managers: what employees are thinking.

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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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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. Read on for details…. ” -Wendy Nather. Don’t Set It and Forget It.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

The painful impact of cyber attacks on businesses is worsening despite advances in technology aimed at protecting enterprises from malicious network traffic, insider threats, malware, denial of service attacks and phishing campaigns. This has left many CISOs questioning if today’s incumbent cybersecurity solutions are enough.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 29, 2021

Security operations / detection & response: “Security Correlation Then and Now: A Sad Truth About SIEM”. Can We Have “Detection as Code”?”. Why is Threat Detection Hard?”. Episode 5 “Preparing for Cloud Migrations from a CISO Perspective, Part 1”. Beware: Clown-grade SOCs Still Abound”. Skills, Not Tiers””.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As a result, security teams are leveraging security capabilities in the form of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) software to help identify and respond to security threats in real-time. SIEM enables security teams to detect and respond to threats, manage incident response, and minimize risks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Strategic perspectives provide a glimpse of what cyber-trends will be pervasive, and tactical is focuses on what technical and policy remedies will need to be prioritized by CISOs, CIOs, and their IT shops. With that comes cyber-risk. More attention will be applied to Zero Trust risk management strategies. STRATEGIC FORCAST.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 25, 2021

You can apply predictive analytics to leverage in-depth threat intelligence sources to produce real-time, automated assessments of your security posture risks from device to cloud. Proactive Threat Hunting. It helps SPW’s security team to prioritize which threats and campaigns are most likely to target them.

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Cisco Security

JULY 25, 2022

As the global CISO of Mediapro, Roberto has deployed Cisco SecureX together with Umbrella, Secure Endpoint, Secure Firewall, ISE, NGIP, Threat Response, AnyConnect, and Web security. With this partnership, Mediapro has reduced its threat detection time by 90%. However, as a COO, risk calculations are in one’s blood.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Challenges born from neither securing nor understanding your supply chain represent enormous risks to your business, your brand, and your customers. Description: PERSPECTIVE: Digital transformation is creating cybersecurity risks as businesses embrace new technologies and expand ecosystems of partners and suppliers.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Cedric Leighton is founder and president of Cedric Leighton Associates, a strategic risk and leadership management consultancy. Since founding Cedric Leighton Associates, he has become an internationally known strategic risk expert. Leighton is also a founding partner of CYFORIX, specializing in the field of cyber risk.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

According to a blog penned by the Okta CISO, here’s what happened: On January 20 2022, a third-party customer support engineer working for Okta had their account compromised by Lapsus$. Per Okta, the incident was mitigated within hours of the initial compromise and is no longer a security risk. SOC Detection Rules for Okta.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Government actions will increase: Expect more government regulations, state-sponsored cyberattacks, and increased documentation required to protect CISOs. Bottom line: Prepare now based on risk. Also consider learning about the top governance, risk, and compliance tools to identify the best one for you.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Consumers and organizations are enthused about the operational benefits of more robust mobile connectivity, but the shift to 5G networks doesn’t come without risks. Beyond that, network administrators must be aware of 5G-enabled vulnerabilities and prepare for threat actors seeking to take advantage of a changing ecosystem.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It offers a unique environment and is increasingly becoming a logical target for all manner of threat actors, from criminal syndicates to sophisticated state sponsored attackers and hacktivists simply because they hold sensitive client information, handle significant funds, and act as intermediaries in commercial and business transactions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2021

By Shay Siksik, VP Customer Operations and CISO, XM Cyber. We call these things “unknown unknowns” — and they are the most challenging to deal with from the perspective of risk management and cybersecurity. It’s easy, relatively speaking, to prepare defenses against risks that are well understood.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

ny of the themes introduced in the code of practice can be aligned with the themes in a zero trust security model, which are also a focus for CISOs. Third, change is inevitable, especially when it comes to risk, so continuously verify trust by reassessing trust level and adjust access accordingly after initial access has been granted.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Either businesses or individuals, we are all in the same boat when it comes to the risk of data loss. The growing risks leave us with the fact that cybersecurity education is not a matter of choice anymore – it’s a matter of necessity. To pursue a career in the cybersecurity field and find a course to get started.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 15, 2021

At the Black Hat USA and London conferences in the third quarter, IronNet expert threat hunters were selected to monitor the Network Operations Center (NOC) using the IronDefense (R) solution, successfully identifying more than 1,700 potential threats at the USA conference alone. The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 12, 2022

CISOs and security professionals work to limit this burgeoning threat landscape, however, it’s a work in progress. . In his career, he led SaaS Threat Detection Research at Proofpoint and won the operational excellence award during his IDI service. Default authorization misconfiguration exposes NASA, among many others.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2021

Its extended detection and response (XDR) solution tracks network traffic and automatically combines the information with machine-comprehended threat detection. Darktrace – Threat detection. Darktrace‘s Cyber artificial intelligence (AI) platform detects and fights cyber threats in real-time.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

These kinds of stories are reported with so much frequency that data-rich companies – and the chief information security officers (CISOs) responsible for their IT network security – have resigned themselves to the certainty that they will become the target of a cybersecurity breach. An attack will happen – it’s just a matter of when.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A new CISO comes in, tries to champion the implementation of a new tool, the CISO is gone after a short amount of time?—?like like most CISOs, and then a new CISO comes in and tries it all over again. Buy what you would use, and use what brings value! Shiny new tool syndrome is still rampant in some SOCs.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Only by integrating these tools into your larger security reporting and analytics infrastructure, and by leveraging actionable responses, can one reduce the threat risk to an organization. CyberArk reduces VPN risk with MFA enforcement on any VPN client that supports RADIUS; including Cisco Secure Firewall.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 25, 2022

Hunters provides rich telemetry and out-of-the-box integrations that security operations and risk management teams need to connect the dots across these environments.”. Our built-in detection engineering, data correlation, and automatic investigation helps teams overcome volume, complexity, and false positives.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 29, 2021

Wendy Nather, Head of Advisory CISOs, Cisco Duo, Summarized from Zero Trust: Going Beyond the Perimeter. Despite an increase in security investments, most organizations are experiencing longer threat dwell times within their security ecosystem — 280 days on average1.

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