Security Awareness Training a Top Priority for CISOs: FS-ISAC Report
(SecurityWeek – Kevin Townsend) – Thirty-five percent of CISOs in the financial sector consider staff training to be the top priority for cyber defense. Twenty-five percent prioritize infrastructure...
View ArticleCity of Atlanta Ransomware Attack Proves Costly
City of Atlanta Ransomware Attack Showcases Ethical Problem in Whether to Pay a Ransom or Not (Kevin Townsend – SecurityWeek) Over the course of the last week, it has become apparent that the City of...
View ArticleCISO Survey Shows Importance of Threat Hunting in the Finance Sector
Attackers Hide in Plain Sight as Threat Hunting Lags (Kevin Townsend – SecurityWeek) – The finance sector has one of the most robust cybersecurity postures in industry. It is heavily regulated,...
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Why AI Raises Your Risk of Cybercrime – And What to do About It
The robots are coming. It has become conventional wisdom that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will increasingly determine our lives going into the future. By 2020, according to...
View ArticleU.S. Federal Agencies Slow in Implementing New Information Technology
(Ionut Arghire – SecurityWeek) – U.S. federal agencies are accelerating the modernization of their information technology (IT) systems and infrastructures, but they still have to align their technology...
View ArticleIndustry is Not Ready IIoT Attacks That Have Already Begun
(Kevin Townsend – SecurityWeek) – Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is an essential part of business transformation and the Industry 4.0 revolution. Its use is burgeoning, with more than 7 billion...
View ArticleThere Is Life for the CISO After a Breach
A survey of CISO attitudes conducted by Symantec and Dr Chris Brauer of Goldsmiths, University of London will surprise few CISOs, but should be required reading for other business leaders. It...
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CISO Conversations: Intel, Cisco Security Chiefs Discuss the Making of a...
In this installment of SecurityWeek’s CISO Conversations series, we talk to two veteran security leaders in the technology sector: Brent Conran, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Intel, and...
View ArticleCISO Conversations: Leading CISOs in the Healthcare Sector
(Kevin Townsend – SecurityWeek) – SecurityWeek discussed the role of security leadership with William Dougherty (Omada Healthcare), Barbee Mooneyhan (Woebot Health), and Mark Wochos (VEDA Data...
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CISO Salaries: Cybersecurity Leaders Are Getting Paid More and Moving Less,...
(Kevin Townsend – SecurityWeek) – CISOs are getting paid more and moving less – and experience counts. Average annual compensation packages for these cybersecurity leaders is more than $550K; and...
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