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Seeds of Destruction: Cyber Risk Is Growing in Agriculture

The Security Ledger

In this episode of the podcast (#213): Molly Jahn of DARPA and University of Wisconsin joins us to talk about the growing cyber risk to the Food and Agriculture sector, as industry consolidation and precision agriculture combine to increase the chances of cyber disruption of food production. Read the whole entry. »

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MY TAKE: Why ‘basic research’ is so vital to bringing digital transformation to full fruition

The Last Watchdog

Basic research is the foundational theorizing and testing scientists pursue in order to advance their understanding of a phenomenon in the natural world, and, increasingly, in the digital realm. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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RSA warns Digital Transformation is supercharging Digital Risk

The Security Ledger

Digital transformation” is the buzz word du jour in industry. But executives at RSA Security warn that it is also magnifying digital risk in ways that are easy to miss. Related Stories Third Party Cyber Risk is growing. Most Companies aren’t prepared.

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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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SHARING INTEL: Why full ‘digital transformation’ requires locking down ‘machine identities’

The Last Watchdog

This is so in spite of the fact that machine identities are exploding in numbers and have come to saturate digital transformation. Now consider that cloud computing is still on the rise, and that the Internet of Things is on the verge of rapid expansion as more 5G networks come on line.

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Spotlight Podcast: Public Sector levels up to tackle Cyber Threats

The Security Ledger

In this Spotlight edition of the podcast, sponsored* by RSA Security, we go deep on public sector cyber risk with two interviews from the most recent RSA Conference: Kelvin Coleman, the Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and Sean McHenry, the CISO of the Utah State Board of Education.

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Securing the edge with Zero Trust

CyberSecurity Insiders

The proliferation of cloud computing, mobile device use, and the Internet of Things has dissolved traditional network boundaries. The protocols for a Zero Trust network ensure that specific rules are in place to govern the amount of access granted and are based upon the type of user, location, and other variables.