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Ostrich Cyber-Risk Welcomes Risk Management Expert Jack Whitsitt as Director of Risk Quantification

Security Boulevard

Jack Whitsitt, former InfoSec Risk Quantification Program Architect at. Freddie Mac, joins Ostrich Cyber-Risk as the Director of Risk. The post Ostrich Cyber-Risk Welcomes Risk Management Expert Jack Whitsitt as Director of Risk Quantification appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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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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Incident Response: 5 Principles to Boost the Infosec/Legal Relationship

Threatpost

Effective cyber-incident response means working well with legal. Matt Dunn, associate managing director for cyber-risk at Kroll, lays out how to do it.

InfoSec 81
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Friday Five 7/9

Digital Guardian

Ransomware negotiators, cyber risks to the financial system, and why traditional passwords are here to stay - catch up on all of the week's infosec news with the Friday Five!

InfoSec 113
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Episode 209: Fortinet’s Renee Tarun on Scaling InfoSec To Meet Tomorrow’s Challenges

The Security Ledger

The post Episode 209: Fortinet’s Renee Tarun on Scaling InfoSec To Meet Tomorrow’s Challenges appeared first on The. Fixing InfoSec Demands Scale, Diversity. Read the whole entry. » The information security industry is simultaneously robust and beset by problems and challenges.

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Episode 205 – Google’s Camille Stewart: InfoSec’s Lack of Diversity is a Cyber Risk

The Security Ledger

We know that the shortage of infosec pros poses a cybersecurity risk. Episode 148: Joseph Menn on Cult of the Dead Cow also Veracode CEO Sam King on InfoSec’s Leaky Talent Pipeline. Do infosec’s racial and gender imbalances create their own kind of security risks? But what about the lack of diversity?

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Cyber Risk Retainers: Not Another Insurance Policy

Threatpost

The costs associated with a cyberattack can be significant, especially if a company does not have an Incident Response plan that addresses risk.