Collaborate Disseminate
This was not your grandfather’s bank data hack. Well, not that your grandfather would know what a bank data hack is, but if he did, he wouldn’t have recognized the one that hit Capital One last month. By now, you’ve seen the main details: Capital One r… Continue reading Lessons of All Types Abound in Aftermath of Massive Capital One Breach
Securing systems, data and processes at the application level is all the rage these days. With reports predicting that the market for application security products will experience a compound annual growth rate of more than 25% through 2023, it’s clear … Continue reading The CISO Speaks: Tim Callahan on How Aflac Is Approaching Application Security and DevSecOps
When French regulators cited Europe’s fledgling General Data Protection Act in fining Google $57 million earlier this year for playing fast and loose with consumer data in personalizing ads, experts called what was then the biggest fine issued under th… Continue reading With Proposed British Airways, Marriott Fines, That GDPR Iceberg Is Getting a Lot Bigger
As if hiring cyber security staff wasn’t challenging enough, now this: According to a Robert Half International survey, two-thirds of IT decision-makers plan to hire full time employees in the second half of 2019, and their top priority? Bringing in fr… Continue reading The CISO Speaks: Scott Niebuhr of The Aerospace Corp. on Cyber Security Staffing Challenge
When James Kirk found his beloved starship Enterprise unresponsive at a moment in which he and his crew faced seemingly hopeless odds, he would press the communication button on his captain’s chair and bark something at his chief engineer like, “Scotty… Continue reading Achieving Warp Speed: Making Sure Your Security Infrastructure is Up to Snuff Will Supercharge Your Incident Responses
If there’s one thing we don’t need at this juncture, it’s our own government’s cyber weapons being used against us. Yet, it seems that may be what happened in early May when city workers in Baltimore, MD, were greeted by locked screens and messages dem… Continue reading EternalBlue Comes Home to Roost, In Baltimore: Will We Learn From Our Mistakes?
Sometimes the world of cybersecurity seems to be upside down, and this is one of those times. In particular, one of the technologies that has long been hailed as the industry’s salvation, cryptography, is in a time of great transition at a moment when … Continue reading Cryptography is Changing Fast, and Cyber Security Pros Are Best Advised to Stay Ahead of the Curve
Here at the RSA Conference blog, we’ve noticed a clear trend: cybersecurity professionals are generally interested in what CISOs have to say. With that in mind, we’ve decided to post occasional Q&As with CISOs on the topics of the day. To kick off … Continue reading The CISO Speaks: ADP’s Roland Cloutier on Contending with the Security Challenges Introduced by Emerging Technologies
For a company that actively sought the more than 2 billion people that use its platform, Facebook sure is having a hard time staying on top of all of that personal data. With the company still reeling from the Cambridge Analytica fiasco that brought at… Continue reading Facebook’s Ongoing Security Challenges Are a Cautionary Statement for All Companies
From the opening keynote of this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco Tuesday morning, one emerging theme spreading through the cyber security industry was made abundantly clear. “We are not just protecting data and applications and infrastructures,”… Continue reading Why One Simple Concept Found its Way into Just About Every RSA Conference Keynote