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A recent security vulnerability — a potential ssh backdoor via the liblzma library in the xz package — is having a lot of analysis done on how the vulnerability was …read more Continue reading Exploit the Stressed-out Package Maintainer, Exploit the Software Package
It is the CISO’s responsibility to build and maintain a high functioning team in a difficult environment – cybersecurity is a complex, continuous, and adversarial environment like none other outside of military conflict.
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Staff experiencing burnout in healthcare settings is not something that security leaders typically worry about – unless, maybe, it is the security team itself that is suffering from it. Healthcare CISOs and privacy officers worry more about the confide… Continue reading How security leaders can ease healthcare workers’ EHR-related burnout
Burnout and fatigue among cyber professionals are leading to flow-on consequences like more data breaches, employee apathy to cyber duties and turnover of cyber workforces during a skills crisis. Continue reading Sophos: Cyber Security Professional Burnout Is Widespread, Creating Risk for APAC Organisations
In this Help Net Security video, Melissa Bischoping, Director, Endpoint Security Research at Tanium, discusses the most concerning risks for 2024 and beyond, from both an internal and external perspective.
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The oft-quoted Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu famously claimed: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” Exchange “battles” for “cyberattacks”, and the maxim will hold. But too much information … Continue reading We can’t risk losing staff to alert fatigue
60% of IT decision-makers agreed that budget cuts have negatively impacted their mental health and wellbeing, according to Integrity360. To add to that, 55% noted that the current economic climate has reduced access to mental health and wellbeing resou… Continue reading Budget cuts take a toll on IT decision makers’ mental health
While organizations are slashing budgets across other departments, IT and security budgets are growing to address evolving IT infrastructure and rising threats from new tactics such as AI-based attacks, according to Axonius. Budget growth in IT and sec… Continue reading Most cybersecurity investments aren’t used to their full advantage
Security professionals want to pursue high-impact work, but they’re being held back by growing workloads, shrinking budgets, and a worsening skills shortage, according to Tines. Nine out of 10 security teams are automating at least some of their work, … Continue reading The primary pain points for SOC teams
The vast majority of IT security professionals admit stress has led them and peers to make errors that have caused data breaches, according to Devo Technology. Recent estimates put the shortage of cybersecurity professionals at 3.5 million. The survey … Continue reading IT pros told to accept burnout as normal part of their job