Category Archives: Risk Mitigation

Digital Transformation: Balancing Speed, Security and Innovation

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Today, digital transformation (DX) is happening in every industry. Organizations operating in sectors that typically eschew technology are moving to the cloud, leveraging IoT and using analytics. Digital transformation plays a critical role for any company to stay competitive and resilient. But what does digital transformation look like for most companies, and more importantly, how […]

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How to Quantify the Actual Cost of a Data Breach for Your Own Organization

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As business leaders, we need to know what the biggest risks to our organizations are. All organizations face numerous disruptive challenges in today’s business environment that can create significant new business opportunities, but also can increase potential cybersecurity risks to the organizations. To address these issues, we need to focus our scarce resources on those […]

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2021 Cybersecurity: Mitigating Mobile Security Risks for CISOs

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Cybersecurity has always been a significant challenge for businesses, mostly due to the increasing financial and reputational cost of data breaches. As a result, there has been a consistent rise in tactics and technologies used to combat these threats…. Continue reading 2021 Cybersecurity: Mitigating Mobile Security Risks for CISOs→

How Zero Trust Can Help Defend Against Ransomware Attacks

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According to IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) team’s Cloud Security Landscape Report 2020, ransomware is the most commonly deployed malware in infiltrated cloud environments. It accounts for three times as many cases as cryptomining and botnet malware, which are second and third place, respectively. Ransomware remains a serious threat, despite improved security […]

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The Biggest Challenges and Best Practices to Mitigate Risks in Maritime Cybersecurity

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Ships are increasingly using systems that rely on digitalization, integration, and automation, which call for cyber risk management on board. As technology continues to develop, the convergence of information technology (IT) and operational technology … Continue reading The Biggest Challenges and Best Practices to Mitigate Risks in Maritime Cybersecurity→

Working from Home during COVID-19? What You and Your Organization Need to Consider

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First and foremost, our hearts go out to those around the world impacted by the COVID-19 virus. The director of the U.S. Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), who advises the country on public health, has indicated that the risk to the gen… Continue reading Working from Home during COVID-19? What You and Your Organization Need to Consider→

Demystifying Security in an Open, Hybrid Multicloud Environment

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Among the avalanche of applications across enterprises and the complexity of the modern IT landscape, security needs to embrace the change by adapting to an open, hybrid multicloud environment.

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The Art of Patch Management

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Reading Time: 4 minutes The vagaries of systems and organizations, compounded by the irrationality of the human mind and variations in patches themselves, means that patch management is not an exact science — it’s an art.

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NIST Says Preparation Is Key to the Risk Management Framework

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The addition of the Prepare step helps elevate the value of the Risk Management Framework from tactical and operational to organizational and strategic.

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Mitigating Risks in Cloud Migration

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Companies are moving to incorporate the cloud into their computing infrastructure at a phenomenal rate. This is, without question, a very positive move. It permits companies to scale processing resources up and down in response to changing demands, giv… Continue reading Mitigating Risks in Cloud Migration→