The Cyber Kill Chain Is Getting Shorter As the Skills Gap Widens

While the cybersecurity skills gap is a years-old challenge, organizations are facing a new conundrum: The cyber kill chain is getting shorter. How can the industry address these dual problems?

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Healthcare Needs Cybersecurity Pros that Anticipate What Threat Actors Will Do Next [Q&A with Dr. Rebecca Wynn]

By many measures, Rebecca Wynn is an accomplished cybersecurity leader. For example, she holds multiple graduate degrees, including an MBA and a doctorate…
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What the Top 25% of Cybersecurity Pros do Differently in Strategy, Risk and Communication

A benchmarking study found the top cybersecurity pros tend to be better aligned with business strategy, take a risk-based approach and communicate with leaders effectively.
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Skills Gap: 3 CISOs Offer Advice for Finding Talent

The cybersecurity skills gap is a topic that has garnered a lot of attention over the past years. For example, the talent shortage was brought up repeatedly throughout RSA, not only in sessions specifically about how to address the growing need for a … Continue reading Skills Gap: 3 CISOs Offer Advice for Finding Talent

Application Security Takeaways From the Ai4 Cybersecurity Conference

While AI in cybersecurity is still in its infancy, the inaugural Ai4 Cybersecurity conference was a great first step in advancing the discussion, especially as it relates to application security.

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Is Your Company Culture Seamlessly Secure — or Just Stressful?

As security practitioners, we probably have a good grasp of technological controls. But adversarial company culture may be creating stress that keeps people from protecting our data.

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Rethinking the Industry’s Approach to the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Until now, we’ve looked at the cybersecurity skills gap in a very broad sense, as if all security jobs and needs are equal. Maybe it’s time we look at the skills gap problem in different ways.

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In Such Transformative Times, the CISO Is Key to Delivering Digital Trust

Ensuring organizations adapt while also retaining a high level of digital trust is exactly where the chief information security officer (CISO) can help.

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Rewrite the Rules to Reduce Complexity in Your Security Architecture

At RSAC 2019, Sridhar Muppidi and Devin Somppi implored vendors to “start looking at security as a team sport” and redouble their efforts to reduce complexity in their security architecture.

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