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Spotlight Podcast: CSO Chris Walcutt on Managing 3rd Party OT Risk

The Security Ledger

In this Spotlight Podcast, host Paul Roberts talks with Chris Walcutt, the CSO of DirectDefense about the rising cyber threats facing operational technology (OT) and how organizations that manage OT - including critical infrastructure owners can best manage increased cyber risks to OT environments. Read the whole entry. »

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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging ‘zero trust’ and ‘remote access’ strategies to mitigate ransomware risks

The Last Watchdog

Ransomware? Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. The media paid close attention to ransomware attacks last year, as they had a significant impact on Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest fuel distributor, and JBS, the nation’s largest meat distributor.

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Interview with Dr. Arun Vishwanath on the Latest Cybersecurity Attacks

CyberSecurity Insiders

This breach, like every major ransomware attack, was likely because of spear phishing, where someone either received the malware via an emailed attachment or clicked on a link that took them to a website that hosted it. This was how the Sony Pictures ransomware hack also took place in late 2014 and since. Ransomware is at the top.

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. One example is our phenomenal Ransomware Protection and G Suite security feature.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 2)

The Last Watchdog

Richard Bird , CSO, Traceable AI Bird The bad guys are showing no restraint in exploiting API security weakness to their advantage. Ransomware is more advanced and prevalent, even reaching “as-a-service” availability on the Dark Web. The move to the cloud has created bigger, more rewarding, and easier to penetrate targets.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Diversity

ForAllSecure

She has 15 years of experience, and yet she's not a CSO at any large organization, rather than curse her fate, she decided to help others, so that maybe they can become the CSOs, and just maybe start to address the diversity problem in InfoSec. Next week we're doing social engineering.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Diversity

ForAllSecure

She has 15 years of experience, and yet she's not a CSO at any large organization, rather than curse her fate, she decided to help others, so that maybe they can become the CSOs, and just maybe start to address the diversity problem in InfoSec. Next week we're doing social engineering.

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