Category Archives: Cyber Resiliency

New Year, Same Risks? Six Cyber Resilience Resolutions for a Safer 2022

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2021 was a banner year for cyber attacks. Compared to 2020, last year saw a 50% increase in attacks per week on corporate networks, even as the total cost of managing a cyber attack rose by 10%, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021. Add in the ongoing shift to hybrid work […]

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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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A Journey in Organizational Resilience: Insider Threats

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Very much like privacy concerns, insider threats may not be the first issue to come to mind when building an enterprise cyber resilience plan. However, they should be. Here is why: because as we noted in the first piece of this series, you want to be able to bend while others break. An insider threat […]

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2021 Cyber Resilient Organization Study: Rise of Ransomware Shows the Need for Zero Trust and XDR

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“How many millions did you pay threat actors in a ransomware attack?” “Which investments most significantly improved cyber resiliency for your organization?” “Do you have a cybersecurity incident response plan that’s applied consistently across your enterprise?” The answers to these and other key questions produced several notable findings in the latest 2021 Cyber Resilient Organization […]

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A Journey in Organizational Resilience: Training and Testing

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We are far from a breach-free world. After all, even cybercriminals have shown their own form of resilience. For example, after a short hiatus, the ransomware group REvil came back in September 2021. Until the day we can leave our ‘cyber front door’ unlocked, any organizational resilience framework you employ needs to include a healthy […]

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How Privileged Access Management Fits Into a Layered Security Strategy

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In its early stages, privileged access management (PAM) involved protecting only the passwords used for privileged accounts. But it evolved beyond that single purpose in the years that followed. Nowadays, it includes other security functions like multifactor authentication (MFA), session monitoring, proxying and user behavior analytics (UBA). Take a look at how these connect for […]

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How Privileged Access Management Fits Into a Layered Security Strategy

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In its early stages, privileged access management (PAM) involved protecting only the passwords used for privileged accounts. But it evolved beyond that single purpose in the years that followed. Nowadays, it includes other security functions like multifactor authentication (MFA), session monitoring, proxying and user behavior analytics (UBA). Take a look at how these connect for […]

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A Journey in Organizational Cyber Resilience Part 2: Business Continuity

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Keeping a business up and running during a problem takes the right people for the job. When it comes to cyber resilience through tough times, many things come down to the human factor. We focused on that in the first piece in this series, but it also makes a big difference to the second topic: […]

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Spend Wisely (Not Just More) to Become Cyber Resilient

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Spending on cybersecurity is hitting record highs. And that makes sense. Because of big changes in how work gets done (plus the rising cost of breaches and attacks, like ransomware), companies are spending more than ever. But simply throwing money at the problem in order to try to become more cyber resilient is not a […]

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Thriving in Chaos: How Cyber Resilience Works

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In cybersecurity as in most jobs, problems don’t happen one at a time, you’re bound to have a few at once. Speakers at the RSA Conference 2021 talked about this in terms of maintaining cyber resilience in chaos. So, what does the buzzword ‘cyber resilience’ really mean? And why is it important to be able […]

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