Collaborate Disseminate
Security professionals are working against lack of vision, buy-in or support from executives, a LogRythm survey has found Security professionals work under constant stress: They are most likely to take the blame if their organization is breached, not … Continue reading Survey: What’s the Top Security Stressor? Lack of Support
Attacks targeting healthcare organizations just won’t let up. In early June, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) announced that their IT team identified a limited security breach within a part of the UCSF School of MedicineR… Continue reading Raft of Healthcare Breaches Continue
As enterprises continue with their digital transformations by automating their manual workflows, moving existing applications to the cloud, and developing and deploying new applications at a record pace, they’re also rapidly increasing the c… Continue reading Enterprises Bring Security Bad Habits Along With Their Digital Transformation Efforts
Enterprise digital transformations are making the jobs of enterprise security teams to properly manage and secure their environments even more challenging. After all, as digital transformations have rapidly increased the complexity of environments… Continue reading Misconfigurations, Poorly Managed Access Help Drive Data Breach Risks
Since the very beginnings of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, businesses of all sizes have struggled to adjust to the new occupational normal. IT teams have not been immune to the disruption. Neither have information security teams for t… Continue reading As Layoffs Loom, Be Cognizant of Increased Insider Risk
Passwords are a huge hassle. We all must use them, and generally hate doing so. There’s no way to sugarcoat it. The typical user has hundreds of username and password combinations that they must remember and manage. We all forget and must re… Continue reading Apple Announced Open Source Password Management Initiative
In its sixth annual Data Security Incident Response (DSIR) Report, BakerHostetler found that phishing attacks ranked as the leading cause of data incidents among the 959 cybersecurity incidents the law firm helped clients manage last year. This is… Continue reading Law firm: Phishing Still Top Cause of Data Security Incidents
When I first started covering data security in the 1990s, the relatively new CISO role was almost an entirely technical role. Even if CISOs didn’t do the work directly, they needed deep technical capabilities in networking and operating systems. And t… Continue reading The Dramatically Changing Role of the CISO
While some of the impacts of the current global pandemic could be predicted, such as the move to work from home, cloud computing, and other technological change, one of the changes that one might not consider until in the thick of the pandemic wou… Continue reading During a Pandemic, No One Wants to Swipe Their Finger
Throughout the past eight weeks, security teams, like many enterprise teams, have found themselves scattered as their organizations rapidly switched to remote work. And, in the transition, many security professionals have found themselves reassigned aw… Continue reading Coronavirus Concerns: Security Teams Scattered, Enterprises Vulnerable