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Measure Security Performance, Not Policy Compliance

The Falcon's View

Specifically, if you think of policies as requirements, then you should be able to recast those as metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) that are easily measured, and in turn are easily integrated into dashboards. Applied, this approach scales very nicely across the organization. But I have digressed.

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Forging the Path to Continuous Audit Readiness

CyberSecurity Insiders

Technology oversight is a common mandate across IT and security frameworks and compliance specifications, but achieving that oversight is difficult. The rise of hybrid workplaces, shadow IT/DevOps, and cloud infrastructure dynamics continue to create cybersecurity risks.

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What Types of Security Capabilities Do Managed Service Providers (MSP) Offer?

Security Boulevard

Regulatory Policy Compliance The privacy regulatory landscape is constantly expanding. Last time, I discussed the four basic types of managed service providers (MSPs) with which organizations commonly partner. Those categories help to determine the types of services offered by MSPs.

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IaaS Security: Top 8 Issues & Prevention Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Understanding the risks, advantages, and best practices connected with IaaS security is becoming increasingly important as enterprises shift their infrastructure to the cloud. These unlicensed services may not have adequate security measures in place, presenting possible vulnerabilities and raising the risk of data disclosure or loss.

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GUEST ESSAY: Top cybersecurity developments that can be expected to fully play out in 2019

The Last Watchdog

The risk will rise and eventually this will cause more issues with a few headlines of devices that were used to hack networks. At Portnox, we will continue to innovate our network security and risk control tools to provide solutions to all, empowering our customers with valuable, holistic solutions to protect their networks.

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Veracode Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Static Application Security Testing, Q1 2021

Veracode Security

To help development teams and security and risk professionals identify the industry???s Policy Scan reviews code before production to ensure that applications are meeting policy compliance and industry standards. s graphical representation of code flaws according to risk and ease of fix [are] unmatched in the market.???

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Implementing and Maintaining Security Program Metrics

NopSec

Much of the pre-work needed to determine what cybersecurity metrics to track and implement is due to understanding your business and where your greatest organizational risks lie. NopSec helps you communicate your risk posture and the impact the team is having on it.