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To Retain Cybersecurity Employees, Know What Drives Them

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COVID-19 may have given cybersecurity talent retention an artificial prop up over the last two years. For example, job satisfaction was on a downward trend from 2018 to 2019, but with the pandemic came a plateau in 2020 and 2021. Was the plateau due to newfound satisfaction or were there other factors, such as economic […]

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Avoiding the Unintended Consequences of Strict Cybersecurity Policies

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Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? Or does even the left pinky know what the left ring finger is doing? Problems can easily arise when policies, including cybersecurity ones, end up being out of sync with business, technical, legal or regulatory requirements. The situation becomes even more severe when policy […]

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What Do Financial Institutions Need to Know About the SEC’s Proposed Cybersecurity Rules?

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On March 9, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a new set of proposed rules for cybersecurity risk management, strategy and incident disclosure for public companies. One intent of the rule changes is to provide “consistent, comparable and decision-useful” information to investors. Not yet adopted, these new rules – published in the Federal […]

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Data Fabric: What It Is and How It Impacts Cybersecurity

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Data use and generation today are both awesome and daunting to manage. What is the best way to manage this mountain of dispersed and disparate data? A possible answer lies in the concept of ‘data fabric’ as a means to unify data. This is an integrated layer of data and connecting processes that “utilizes continuous […]

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Data Fabric: What It Is and How It Impacts Cybersecurity

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Data use and generation today are both awesome and daunting to manage. What is the best way to manage this mountain of dispersed and disparate data? A possible answer lies in the concept of ‘data fabric’ as a means to unify data. This is an integrated layer of data and connecting processes that “utilizes continuous […]

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The Great Resignation: How to Acquire and Retain Cybersecurity Talent

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If you’ve been following reports and whispering with industry colleagues, you know what’s going on: the cybersecurity skills gap is difficult to close, and the Great Resignation is here. The 2021 (ISC)2 workforce study gives us a mixed picture of what to expect: The Cybersecurity Workforce Estimate states there are 4.19 million cybersecurity workers worldwide, […]

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The Great Resignation: How to Acquire and Retain Cybersecurity Talent

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If you’ve been following reports and whispering with industry colleagues, you know what’s going on: the cybersecurity skills gap is difficult to close, and the Great Resignation is here. The 2021 (ISC)2 workforce study gives us a mixed picture of what to expect: The Cybersecurity Workforce Estimate states there are 4.19 million cybersecurity workers worldwide, […]

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Arming CISOs With the Skills to Combat Disinformation

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As if chief information security officers (CISOs) did not have enough to deal with, add one more issue to their plates: information warfare. These operations now target private and non-governmental entities almost as often as they involve world powers. That’s why it’s more important than ever to know the difference between misinformation and disinformation — […]

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Small Business Cybersecurity: What to Fix, What to Manage and What to Outsource

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The risk posture of small and medium-sized businesses has changed a lot over the last few years. Bluntly: small businesses inherited a series of digital risks. Many of these risks, such as supply chain and cloud-related risks, can wound and devastate a small business. Meanwhile, the enterprise, armed with more resources, could sustain the shock. […]

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A Journey in Organizational Resilience: Survive the Disruption and Become Stronger

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Our journey through the factors that make up organizational cyber resilience is almost complete. It’s time to put the puzzle pieces together.  First, a quick look at the issues we’ve covered so far.  The Human Factor Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Crisis Management Governance Testing and Training Privacy Security By Design Supply Chain and Third Parties […]

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