Author Archives: Sue Poremba

HEAT and EASM: What to Know About the Top Acronyms at RSA

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The cybersecurity industry is littered with acronyms. SIEM. EDR. APT. CISO. CISA. The list goes on and on. So it wasn’t surprising that there were a lot of acronyms in RSAC 2023’s sessions and keynotes, as well as in the dozens of news items and studies released during the conference. The hottest acronym, by far, […]

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The Biden Administration’s 2023 Cybersecurity Strategy

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The Biden Administration recently introduced a new national cybersecurity strategy, expected to aggressively address an increasingly complex and dangerous threat landscape. Improving cybersecurity may not be the top priority for the Biden Administration, but it is an issue that the White House has been focused on since the earliest days of President Biden’s tenure. For […]

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ChatGPT Confirms Data Breach, Raising Security Concerns

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When ChatGPT and similar chatbots first became widely available, the concern in the cybersecurity world was how AI technology could be used to launch cyberattacks. In fact, it didn’t take very long until threat actors figured out how to bypass the safety checks to use ChatGPT to write malicious code. It now seems that the […]

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What Comes After the Digital Transformation?

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When Covid hit, companies had to accelerate their digital transformation process out of necessity. But now, almost three years after the initial shutdown, most organizations have embraced digital to the point where they are now maintaining new technologies rather than implementing more.  Cybersecurity is a crucial component of a company’s digital transformation. But have organizations […]

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Reach Out to Peers and Vendors to Build Your Security

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Cyberattacks don’t happen in a vacuum. While your organization may be specifically targeted by cybercriminals, the style of attack they are using isn’t unique to you. It’s one they will use over and over, especially if it is successful, and will sell on the Dark Web for other cyber criminals to buy, use and modify. […]

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How Cyber Insurance Changed Cybersecurity

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When cyber insurance first became available in the 1990s, there wasn’t much need for it — or at least, so people thought. The internet as we know it today was still in its infancy, and most organizations didn’t see the point of cyber insurance. The original policies were to cover liability around software and media […]

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How the Talent Shortage Impacts Cybersecurity Leadership

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The lack of a skilled cybersecurity workforce stalls the effectiveness of any organization’s security program. Yes, automated tools and technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) offer a layer of support, and bringing in a managed security service provider (MSSP) provides expertise that isn’t available in-house. But it isn’t enough, especially for the […]

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Secure-by-Design: A 2023 Cybersecurity Prime

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The traditional approach to security has been to get the product to market fast and worry about security later. Unfortunately, that approach has never really worked. It puts too much of the cybersecurity responsibilities on the customer and leaves many vulnerabilities primed for exploitation at any point in the supply chain.  As cyber threats become […]

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The Important Role of SOAR in Cybersecurity

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Understaffed security teams need all the help they can get, and they are finding that help through SOAR. SOAR — security orchestration, automation and response — is defined by Gartner as the “technologies that enable organizations to collect inputs monitored by the security operations team.” Gartner identifies a SOAR platform’s three prime functionalities: Threat and […]

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What Does a Network Security Engineer Do?

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Cybersecurity is complex. The digital transformation, remote work and the ever-evolving threat landscape require different tools and different skill sets. Systems must be in place to protect endpoints, identities and a borderless network perimeter. The job role responsible for handling this complex security infrastructure is the network security engineer. In a nutshell, the network security […]

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