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RSAC Fireside Chat: Tightened budgets impose discipline on CISOs, resets security investments

The Last Watchdog

CISOs have been on something of a wild roller coaster ride the past few years. Related: Why breaches persist When Covid 19 hit in early 2020, the need to secure company networks in a new way led to panic spending on cybersecurity tools. Despite this turbulence, WestCap views this reset as a positive development.

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Wells Notice Against SolarWinds CISO Could Be First of Its Kind

SecureWorld News

SolarWinds Corporation, which suffered a major breach of its Orion software platform in December 2020, submitted a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on June 23rd, saying the enforcement staff of the SEC provided the company with a Wells Notice related to its investigation into the cyber incident.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: VISO TRUST replaces questionaires with AI analysis to advance ‘TPRM’

The Last Watchdog

We had a wide-ranging discussion about the limitations of traditional third-party risk management ( TPRM ), which uses extensive questionnaires—and the honor system – to judge the security posture of third-party suppliers. With “companies approaching 100 percent third-party integration,” CISOs are making TPRM a top priority, he says. “It’s

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7 Trends I Spotted When Reviewing 2020 and the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Jane Frankland

For example, in December 2020, they ran a cybersecurity writing competition called CyberVibe with local school students and had over 600 entries. Leadership is the secret sauce for cyber risk reduction This year has called for remarkable leadership as the pandemic has taken a toll on those in the industry.

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BrandPost: The Journey to SASE: Cisco Eases Security Complexity

CSO Magazine

Unfortunately, there’s often a lack of integration across these technologies, which increases the work of security teams—and risks missed vulnerabilities. In fact, 77% of CISOs said it was challenging to orchestrate alerts between products from multiple security vendors, according to Cisco’s 2020 Cybersecurity Benchmark Study.

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NEW TECH: Devolutions’ ‘PAM’ solution helps SMBs deal with rising authentication risks

The Last Watchdog

I spoke with Maurice Côté, VP Business Solutions, and Martin Lemay, CISO, of Devolutions , at the RSA 2020 Conference in San Francisco recently. I believe there’s pent up demand from SMBs for cost-effective services that can reduce the potentially catastrophic cyber risks they face every day. I hope there’s more to come.

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Cybersecurity Is the Most Prevalent ESG Issue We're Not Talking About

SecureWorld News

According to the AON and Ponemon Institute, 83% of S&P company value intangible and of the companies surveyed in the research, at the average total value of their IP assets such as trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and know-how was $578 million in 2020. Register here to watch the session on-demand.