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Your company’s vendor management program may not be what you need to get the most out of your cybersecurity vendors, so I’ll focus on a Cyber Vendor Optimization Strategy. The goal is to synchronize your annual cyber strategy / plan with your current v… Continue reading Kick off the year with a new vendor management spring cleaning strategy
One of the constants in cybersecurity is that wherever there is a breach there is a high probability that there’s a stolen credential involved. With that perspective in mind, a recent report by security vendor Pulse Secure and the CyberRisk Alliance s… Continue reading Enterprises Increase Security Spending but not Efficacy
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) released a report on information security spending for network and information services (NIS) under the NIS Directive, the first EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity. The report is based on a survey o… Continue reading 35% of organizations believe the NIS Directive expectations are unclear
COVID-19 and the subsequent global recession have thrown a wrench into IT spending. Many enterprises have placed new purchases on hold. Gartner recently projected that global spending on IT would drop 8% overall this year — and yet dollars allocated to… Continue reading How a move to the cloud can improve disaster recovery plans
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists have created a cryptographic platform that allows companies to securely share data on cyber attacks they suffered and the monetary cost of their cybersecurity failures without worrying about reveal… Continue reading Which cybersecurity failures cost companies the most and which defenses have the highest ROI?
Cybersecurity spending, even if only driven by industry and government regulatory compliance mandates, has proven itself to be relatively resilient through previous downturns. Will this downturn prove different? Toward the end of March, S&P Global … Continue reading The Economic Shutdown’s Impact on Security Budgets
There is a misalignment between data privacy regulation spending and business outcomes, according to a Tanium research. Specifically, as businesses spend tens of millions on compliance, over 90 percent have fundamental IT weaknesses that leave them vul… Continue reading Despite spending more on compliance, businesses still have basic IT weaknesses
Cloud spend exceeds budgets as organizations expect increased cloud use due to COVID-19, according to a Flexera report. “With employees working from home and more business interactions going digital,” said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Flexera, “more … Continue reading What’s happening with all things cloud: Existing and future cloud strategies
A global survey of 750 IT decision-makers suggests that increased spending on compliance isn’t doing much to improve the security posture of organizations. Conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Tanium, a provider of endpoint management tools, the su… Continue reading Report: Increased Spending on Compliance Not Helping Security
More than 50 percent of security and IT leaders agree that they are very concerned about the security of corporate endpoints given the prevalence of sophisticated attack vectors like ransomware, disruptionware, phishing and more, according to a survey … Continue reading Corporate cybersecurity concerns and spend continue to rise, but so do breaches