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News alert: Beazley reports on how AI, new tech distract businesses as cyber risk intensifies

The Last Watchdog

London, July 13, 2023 — Beazley, the leading specialist insurer, today published its latest Risk & Resilience report: Spotlight on: Cyber & Technology Risks 2023. Yet, boardroom focus on cyber risk appears to be diminishing. trillion by 2025, a 300% increase since 2015 1.

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CISA JCDC Will Focus on Energy Sector

Security Affairs

The JCDC has seen the benefits of collaboration for exigent risks (such as the heightened awareness and protection related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Log4Shell vulnerability) but sees a remaining gap when it comes to imminent risk. To address this gap, the JCDC is planning proactive measures for future cyber risks.

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Scanning for Flaws, Scoring for Security

Krebs on Security

For years, potential creditors have judged the relative risk of extending credit to consumers based in part on the applicant’s credit score — the most widely used being the score developed by FICO , previously known as Fair Isaac Corporation. Data accidentally released by FICO about the Cyber Risk Score for ExxonMobil.

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Why so many companies still find moving to DevSecOps hard

SC Magazine

Security pros face great challenges in managing all the products and tools they use to handle the cyber risks they face. What suite of tools will work best for the existing technology stack? Secure and insecure code requires the same effort to write; it’s gaining the knowledge to code securely that takes the real energy.

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Meet the 2021 SC Awards judges

SC Magazine

With a career spanning two decades as a technology provider to businesses and government agencies, Levine brings a strategic and pragmatic approach to building secure software and cloud services without disrupting product velocity. Since founding Cedric Leighton Associates, he has become an internationally known strategic risk expert.

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Episode 162: Have We missed Electric Grid Cyber Attacks for Years? Also: Breaking Bad Security Habits

The Security Ledger

. » Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: Security Automation is (and isn’t) the Future of Infosec Episode 159: Deep Fakes and Election (in)Security with ZeroFOX Spotlight Podcast: Rethinking Your Third Party Cyber Risk Strategy. If you believe the headlines, the first known disruptive cyber attack against the U.S.

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The Nature of Cybersecurity Defense: Pentagon To Reveal Updated Zero-Trust Cybersecurity Strategy & Guidelines

CyberSecurity Insiders

If energy, dollars and effort to apply Zero Trust is entirely focused on the infrastructure and OS components of cloud, data center or hybrid deployment patterns the bad actors will simply move their efforts to the attack surface that isn’t conditioned to Zero Trust. Zero Trust without API security is simply, not Zero Trust.