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MY TAKE: COVID-19 cements the leadership role CISOs must take to secure company networks

The Last Watchdog

cybersecurity policy needs to match societal values CISOs must preserve and protect their companies in a fast-changing business environment at a time when their organizations are under heavy bombardment. I had the chance to discuss this state of affairs with Vishal Salvi, CISO of Infosys. Salvi “The CISO role has fundamentally changed.

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SOC Technology Failures?—?Do They Matter?

Anton on Security

SOC Technology Failures?—?Do img src: [link] Most failed Security Operations Centers (SOCs) that I’ve seen have not failed due to a technology failure. Let’s stick to mostly technology focused failures. Perhaps the tool vendor made some incorrect assumptions about how their technology is really used in the real world?

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Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach

Krebs on Security

The financial technology firm Finastra is investigating the alleged large-scale theft of information from its internal file transfer platform, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. In March 2020, Finastra suffered a ransomware attack that sidelined a number of the company’s core businesses for days.

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NEW TECH: Exabeam positions SIEM technology to help protect IoT, OT systems

The Last Watchdog

Their capacity to ingest threat feeds is becoming more relevant with the rise of IoT (Internet of Things) systems and the vulnerabilities of old and new OT (operational technology). I spoke with Trevor Daughney, vice president of product marketing at Exabeam , at the RSA 2020 Conference in San Francisco recently.

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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. And this can be done by leveraging advanced technologies, namely automation and AI, he says.

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MY TAKE: As network perimeters shift and ecosystems blend, the role of MSSPs solidifies

The Last Watchdog

I had the chance to discuss this with Shinichi Yokohama, NTT Global CISO and John Petrie, Counselor to the NTT Global CISO, at RSA Conference 2023. Towards zero-trust So how should CISOs steer their organizations? By one estimate, companies are on track to spend $77 billion on MSSP services by 2030, up from $22 billion in 2020.

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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. In a LinkedIn post today, June 26th, Jamil Farshchi, EVP and CISO at Equifax, had this to say about the news: "This is a really big deal. federal securities laws."

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