CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 8, 2022

When InfoSec people refer to the CIA of cybersecurity, they’re usually talking about the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of the data we work to protect and not the three-letter government entity. Small businesses often struggle to develop and implement a plan for securing their identities due to a lack of time and resources.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Chris Hass, director of information security and research at Automox, discusses how to assign security responsibility, punishment for poor cyber-hygiene and IDing 'security champions' to help small businesses.

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Webroot

AUGUST 18, 2021

The infosec researcher Matt Tait, who spoke at this year’s Black Hat on the topic of supply chain attacks, called the Codecov compromise an instance of high-volume disruption based on indiscriminate targeting. The firm counts among its clients giants like IBM, Hewlett Packard and Atlassian.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2021

“At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns, cities and local governments — have over the past few days been hacked by an unusually aggressive Chinese cyber espionage unit that’s focused on stealing email from victim organizations, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity.”

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

" Thing is, "control" is a bit of a nuanced term; there are many people in roles where they don't have access to any of the above means of verification but they're legitimately responsible for infosec and responding to precisely the sorts of notifications HIBP sends out after a breach.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 25, 2019

There remains the question, however, of whether people who are from a different ethnicity, gender or background to the stereotype “standard IT/infosec professional” are actually being treated equally in the cybersecurity industry.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 13, 2021

In 2019, the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2) released a workforce study found that there’s a shortage of infosec experts, a shortage that’s estimated to be nearly 4.8 Sixty percent of hacked small and medium-size businesses go out of business after 6 months.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Is ASM Appropriate for Small Businesses? Many ASM solutions provide scalable choices to meet the unique requirements and budgets of small organizations. Yes, ASM is effective for all sizes of enterprises. Is It Possible to Combine ASM Software with Current Security Tools?

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Notice Bored

JULY 10, 2020

I have previously taken this to indicate lack of understanding, support and commitment from senior management, insufficient priority relative to all the other important stuff going on, hence my abiding interest in elaborating on the business case for investing in information risk and security management.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

We constantly see new threats, and threat vectors, come and go; which puts a tremendous strain on the InfoSec teams that have to protect organizations and businesses from these threats. Cybersecurity is a continuously evolving landscape. Read more here. Read more here.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 8, 2022

Josh Feinblum is the co-founder of Stavvy, a Boston-based fully integrated digital mortgage platform, where he leads product, engineering, people, and finance. He also serves as a venture partner at F-Prime Capital, where he evaluates and advises startups of all stages across multiple verticals.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Since 2007 the InfoSec industry has been talking about TheBigOne™—the event that would change cyber threats from annoyances to existential concerns. Even medium and large businesses struggle to handle this threat, and that’s with dedicated security staff to help them. They called it Cyber Pearl Harbor.

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SC Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Small to medium sized businesses have drastically different cybersecurity preparedness, capacity and overall posture than their king-sized brethren. It’s clear that small businesses have become vulnerabilities in our global supply chains ,” said Kiersten Todt, managing director of the institute. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Infosec will dominate our lives in the tech space for the foreseeable future. Whether you are a small business or large enterprise, at some point you will be targeted by a ransomware attack that will try to get into your system and encrypt your critical data. Steve Cochran, CTO, ConnectWise.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Fortunately, there are those in the InfoSec world, who are actively looking at the subject and speaking out at conferences, such as Black Hat. Vamosi: That talk focused on the fact that there are InfoSec hackers openly working to address this problem. Both involve people getting hurt. Both involve technology.

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Notice Bored

APRIL 12, 2021

A small business might point out the risks to availability of its key workers, and the business implications of losing its people (and their invaluable knowledge and experience i.e. information assets) due to illness/disease, resignation or retirement.

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