Category Archives: CyberTalks 2020

How Microsoft is future proofing against cyber risk

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Shifts in the way that enterprises and government organizations implement identity management technologies already were underway before the coronavirus pandemic struck. The sudden influx of remote work, however, has forced security personnel throughout the U.S., and the world, to accelerate plans to mitigate cyber risk. “When billions of people formed the largest remote workforce ever, overnight, pretty much we knew security, compliance and identity would not be small issues for folks,” said Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President of Security, Compliance and Identity Business Development at Microsoft during a virtual presentation Oct. 21 at CyberTalks, the annual summit of security leaders from the government and private sector presented by Scoop News Group. Johnson went on to provide insights on how chief information security officers have adapted to a world where telecommuting is now the norm. Now, she said, more people are starting to look ahead, too. One such organization that was […]

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Election security pros focus on effective partnerships

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Trust the process. That’s the message from a group of election security experts who, during a virtual panel discussion at CyberTalks, said they are working to safeguard the 2020 election from an array of cybersecurity threats. Benjamin Hovland, a commissioner on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Jack Cable, an election security technical adviser at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Matt Masterson, a senior cybersecurity adviser at CISA, explained that the goal isn’t only to protect the Nov. 3 election, but also to ensure that the American people can trust the results. The CyberTalks panel was led by John DeSimone, vice president of cybersecurity, training and services at Raytheon Intelligence and Space. In a series of questions, DeSimone, probed the election security experts on the ways that U.S. government entities and the defense industrial base are working together “from a mission assurance perspective” to protect […]

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How cloud transformation helps stop emerging threats

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Automation, agility, efficiency and cost play critical roles in accelerating public sector transformation through the cloud, according to an experienced cybersecurity-focused executive with an eye on the future. They also are provide a smarter, more progressive approach to protecting data, said Rajiv Gupta, a senior vice president in the cloud security business unit at McAfee, during an Oct. 20 presentation at CyberTalks, the annual summit of government and private sector leaders presented by Scoop News Group. The need to consider more modern security approaches has taken on new urgency since the COVID-19 pandemic impacted U.S. firms, forcing leaders to reconsider many of their operating assumptions. “Not only have you seen, in the U.S., employees working from home but, in many cases, the employees accessing large public cloud services,” Gupta said during a keynote presentation. “What we’ve seen is that a threat landscape has changed, the threat vectors have changed, the […]

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Global cyber community can do more to stop state-sponsored malware, EFF researcher says

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When it comes to defending against foreign cyber powers, many U.S. national security experts tend to hype up countries with powerful hacking capabilities, such as China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea. Regarding state-sponsored malware campaigns, though, the security community needs to dig deeper, says Cooper Quintin, a security researcher and programmer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “We’ve found lots of countries now are starting to get hacking programs. It’s a lot of countries you wouldn’t expect,” Quintin said Friday during CyberTalks, a virtual event produced by Scoop News Group. “We’ve seen state-sponsored malware coming out of Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Morocco, Ethiopia, and all sorts of countries that haven’t previously been well known for their hacking capabilities.” The countries themselves haven’t necessarily developed hacking capabilities, though they appear to be outsourcing cyber-operations to third parties, or shopping around for commercial hacking tools in an effort to mask government involvement, according to Quintin. The government of Kazakhstan, for […]

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