Keeping up with new and changing threat-sources, technologies, products and services, markets, and extended eco-systems creates enormous demands on information security teams. Deciding what is most important and allocating scarce resources is essential to maximizing effectiveness. Compounded by a need to communicate...
In one of the recent stops in this roundtable dinner seriers, ISMG and Zscaler visited Boston to discuss the role of security as a catalyst for digital transformations. We saw in each of these conversations that change is difficult, but that everyone is asking the same questions, says Stan Lowe, Global CISO with...
With the volume of data breaches and cyberattacks continuing to rise, organizations are increasingly relying on breach and attack simulation tools to provide more consistent and automated validation of controls, says Cymulate's Tim Ager.
Want to improve how your organization delivers and absorbs security awareness training? Then it comes down to reinventing your approach, including gamification, says Barracuda's Michael Flouton.
Vulnerabilities and network incidents are on the rise. You're racing the clock to patch the riskiest vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them.
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Exploiting vulnerabilities from the mind of an attacker
Observed success and probability of an incident to due exploitation
The metrics...
Many organizations struggle with the scope of information security and digital risk. Making cybersecurity a true enterprise-wide effort is a challenge that sometimes isn't best to face alone.
Often, the biggest obstacle for information security officers is communicating and helping employees at every level...
Developing an effective, sustainable digital security program is a pressing challenge for organizations of all sizes. CIOs and CISOs are facing an increasingly complex risk and regulatory landscape, coupled with a shortage of skilled, experienced information security (IS) professionals to navigate these evolving...
Organizations across all sectors are experiencing the cybersecurity skills gap however, it's not just a skill deficit - it's a capacity gap that is widening, driven mainly by the fact that our networks are becoming more complex.They're more distributed, mobile- and cloud-enabled; therefore, it's becoming more of a...
As part of healthcare's digital transformation, payers and providers alike have rolled out patient portals and telemedicine platforms to increase access to care, improve patient participation and decrease healthcare administrative costs.
How secure are these portals? What types of authentication protocols are used to...
One of the most-heard complaints from security experts is that often they find their work repetitive ("The CFO's laptop has been compromised... again!"), which results in the desire of trying something "new", meaning "leave for another company." Another common complaint is that the work is very compartmentalized, and...
One of the most-heard complaints from security experts is that often they find their work repetitive ("The CFO's laptop has been compromised... again!"), which results in the desire of trying something "new", meaning "leave for another company." Another common complaint is that the work is very compartmentalized, and...
Security awareness training helps educate organizations and prepare its people to defend against today's most threatening cyberattacks. But, sometimes well-intentioned strategies can have unintended consequences. Leveraging a "one-size-fits-all" solution may work for maintaining compliance, but what happens when a...
ISMG and Zscaler hosted a roundtable dinner in Denver focused on security's role in digital transformation. Cultural and leadership challenges were major themes of this discussion, and Bil Harmer, Americas CISO with Zscaler, discusses his takeaways in this exclusive eBook transcript.
Bil has been in Information...
This whitepaper from the SANS Institute focuses on the growing use and benefits derived from information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) convergence which includes more effective management and operation of contemporary control systems. IT/OT convergence carries unique challenges that make managing...
With the explosion of poorly secured IoT devices being regularly herded into larger and larger botnets, it's hardly a surprise that DDoS attacks are now so common and damaging. What is surprising, is that many companies still lack adequate protection against these attacks, especially in an era when Internet...
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