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Forcepoint CEO: Stop focusing on tech and start focusing on people

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Forcepoint CEO Matt Monyahan says the cybersecurity industry’s focus is flawed. According to Monyahan, way too much time and effort has been spent on securing technology stacks. If the security paradigm is to change, there must be more effort placed on modifying people’s behavior when they use technology. “We have to shift,” Monyahan said at the Cybersecurity Leadership Forum, presented by Forcepoint and produced by CyberSoop and FedScoop. “Shift our programs, our policy approach, to start thinking about people and data, and not necessarily infrastructure.” Monyahan told a crowd in Washington, D.C., Wednesday that the concentration on endpoints and networks has failed to take into account that people — both regular users and nefarious ones — modify their behavior as new tech emerges. This focus has led to the escalating problems the industry has seen today, with breaches exposing people’s personal information and nation-states using the Internet to cause worldwide […]

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Krebs: NPPD must use threat intel better

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The agency inside the Department of Homeland Security charged with protecting critical infrastructure needs to get better at assessing cyber risk rather than chasing threats, according to a top DHS official. “We have a threat intelligence problem…because we obsess about the threat,” Christopher Krebs said Wednesday at the Cybersecurity Leadership Forum presented by Forcepoint and produced by CyberScoop and FedScoop. “We’re running this way and that way, hunting down every little piece of threat intelligence and reacting without a lot of context.” As an example, Krebs pointed to the Illinois voter registration system that Russian hackers breached ahead of the 2016 presidential election.Even if the hackers had been able to delete voter files, Krebs said, voters would still have been able to cast their ballots by having their registration verified through other records, meaning the risk was manageable. Putting the risk, or lack thereof, of cyberthreats into context is a big task […]

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