Still Leading In Endpoint And Cloud Workload Security

Cloud workload security and endpoint protection are key to managing security risk. Two new independent IDC reports help CISOs consider their strategic partner options...

CISOs Struggle to Cope with Mounting Job Stress

The CISOs aren’t OK. A new survey showed the pandemic has ratcheted up job pressure to “extreme stress” levels among chief information security officers CISOs, and it’s left them grappling for coping mechanisms ranging from workouts to narcotics. OneLogin released the results of its survey of 250...

Business email compromise: How Microsoft is combating this costly threat

Amongst all cybercrime, phishing attacks continue to be the most prevalent today. With over 90 percent of attacks coming via email, it’s important that every organization has a plan to prevent these threats from reaching users. At Microsoft, we’re passionate about providing our customers with...

Business email compromise: How Microsoft is combating this costly threat

Amongst all cybercrime, phishing attacks continue to be the most prevalent today. With over 90 percent of attacks coming via email, it’s important that every organization has a plan to prevent these threats from reaching users. At Microsoft, we’re passionate about providing our customers with...

Recording: Analyzing Android Malware — From triage to reverse-engineering

It's easy to get wrapped up worry about large-scale ransomware attacks on the threat landscape. These are the types of attacks that make headlines and strike fear into the hearts of CISOs everywhere. But if you want to defend the truly prolific and widespread threats that target some of the...

How CISOs can stay ahead of ransomware attacks

With ransomware threats evolving in 2020, take a look at how you can stay ahead of the curve...

New CISOs Survey Reveals How Small Cybersecurity Teams Can Confront 2021

The pressure on small to medium-sized enterprises to protect their organizations against cyberthreats is astronomical. These businesses face the same threats as the largest enterprises, experience the same relative damages and consequences when breaches occur as the largest enterprises but are...

vCISO Shares Most Common Risks Faced by Companies With Small Security Teams

Most companies with small security teams face the same issues. They have inadequate budgets, inadequate staff, and inadequate skills to face today's onslaught of sophisticated cyberthreats. Many of these companies turn to virtual CISOs vCISOs to provide security expertise and guidance. vCISOs are...

vCISO Shares Most Common Risks Faced by Companies With Small Security Teams

Most companies with small security teams face the same issues. They have inadequate budgets, inadequate staff, and inadequate skills to face today's onslaught of sophisticated cyberthreats. Many of these companies turn to virtual CISOs vCISOs to provide security expertise and guidance. vCISOs are...

New Educational Video Series for CISOs with Small Security Teams

Cybersecurity is hard. For a CISO that faces the cyber threat landscape with a small security team, the challenge is compounded. Compared to CISOs at large enterprises, CISOs small to medium-sized enterprises SMEs have smaller teams with less expertise, smaller budgets for technology and outside...

CISOs Prep For COVID-19 Exposure Notification in the Workplace

With the potential of employees going back into the workplace on the horizon, chief information security officers CISOs are mulling applications that utilize exposure notifications in order to track COVID-19’s spread in the office. Steve Moore, chief security strategist with Exabeam, said he is...

Kmart, Latest Victim of Egregor Ransomware – Report

Retail stalwart Kmart has suffered a ransomware attack at the hands of the Egregor gang, according to a report. The incident has encrypted devices and servers connected to the company’s networks, knocking out back-end services, according to BleepingComputer. The outlet obtained the purported rans...

A Look Ahead: 9 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2021

Following an unprecedented year, what’s to come for cybersecurity in 2021? The ripple effects of the global pandemic have created a new threat landscape. In March, 90% of CISOs we surveyed reported an increase in attack frequency. For many organizations, the key to survival amid COVID-19 has call...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: 2020 in Retrospect

For cyber defenders worldwide, 2020 has been unprecedented year. CISOs and their security teams have battled increased attack volumes and data breaches as malicious actors seized the opportunity to exploit the disruption caused by the global pandemic. Cybercriminals are now deploying a wide range...

The Future of Remote Work: Connecting Security and IT — Webinar Highlights

The unforeseen global health crisis of 2020 has driven radical changes in most organizations. With empty offices and business pressure building, enterprises are forced to rapidly adapt to new working environments. Almost all non-essential employees are now working remotely, and this trend is like...

Rethinking IoT/OT Security to Mitigate Cyberthreats

We live in an exciting time. We’re in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution—first steam, followed by electricity, then computers, and, now, the Internet of Things. A few years ago, IoT seemed like a futuristic concept that was on the distant horizon. The idea that your fridge would be...

Black Hat 2020: Influence Campaigns Are a Cybersecurity Problem

Social media used as a cudgel for nation-states to sway opinion is a cybersecurity threat CISOs can’t ignore — and need to understand better and mitigate against. That’s the message from Renée DiResta, research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, who said she is seeing a steady growth a...

First-Ever Russian BEC Gang, Cosmic Lynx, Uncovered

Researchers say they have discovered the first-ever reported Russian business email compromise BEC cybercriminal ring, showing that sophisticated attackers beyond the usual Nigerian scammers are setting their sights on the email-based attack vector. The BEC gang is called Cosmic Lynx, and has bee...

Netgear Router Vulnerabilities

Multiple Netgear router models contain vulnerabilities that a remote attacker can exploit to take control of an affected device. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to update to the most recent firmware version and to replace end-of-life...

Am I doing it right? An introspective look at "why it's like this"

Cybersecurity, as a practice within organizations, has existed for decades. Larger or government organizations have had dedicated cybersecurity functions in place since at least the 90s. By the early 2000s, organizations were appointing CISOs, and by the end of that decade over 85% of large...