CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2021

By Shay Siksik, VP Customer Operations and CISO, XM Cyber. In 2021, smart organizations need a new approach that uses the attacker’s perspective to find and remediate critical attack paths across on-premises and multi-cloud networks. There are things we know: 2 + 2 = 4, for example. We call this common knowledge.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 3, 2022

The Attack Surface Management team at Group-IB said it constantly scans the IPv4 landscape for exposed databases, potentially unwanted programs, and other risks. From Q1 2021 to Q1 2022, the team discovered 399,200 exposed databases due to those efforts. Also read: Database Security: 7 Best Practices & Tips.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

Nowadays, organisations need digital leaders such as CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs who are strategists, visionaries, and know how to manage, effectively. The pressure for those in charge is immense as cyber risks have scaled, and can now bring businesses, economies, and communities to a halt. Supply chain attacks grew 300% in 2021.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

As an advisory CISO and part of Cisco’s strategy group, an essential part of my role is talking to CISOs from every kind of organization. From these conversations, it is clear cyber liability insurance is steadily rising to the top of the agenda, due to the sheer amount and scale of cyber-attacks hitting firms.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

cyber insurance carriers in 2021 rose 92% year-over-year, largely in response to a surge in ransomware. Cyber risk insurers are also declining coverage to companies with substandard cybersecurity controls, as well as changing the fine print for sublimits to reduce coverage for types of losses one by one.

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SC Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

Cyber thought leaders were quick to acknowledge the importance of continued cooperation across federal, state and local jurisdictions, though several CISOs suggested that there wasn’t too much new ground covered and recommended ways the federal and state governments and private industry could do even more to assist overwhelmed municipalities.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

SAP National Security Services (NS2) CISO Ted Wagner told eSecurityPlanet that network slicing “adds complexity, which may lend itself to insecure implementation. Incentivizing a Cyber Duty of Care. Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative at Black Hat 2021 is promising for a growing collective response to cybersecurity threats.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The rash of high-profile breaches such as Solar Winds, Colonial Pipeline, Kaseya, and others proved those 2021 predictions to be accurate. through September of 2021 has already surpassed the total number of compromises in 2020 by 17%, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).” forbes.com). STRATEGIC FORCAST.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2023

The cities of Middleton, Danvers, Wenham, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Essex, Hamilton, and Topsfield formed the North Shore IT Collaborative in 2021 with the goal of their collective power being stronger than what they can manage alone. He will join a panel at SecureWorld Dallas on October 26 on the topic, "Cover Your Cyber Assets."

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Further, they must take stock of evolving cyber risks in this multicloud, multi-platform world, and identify where blind spots may exist across a broad new set of users, devices, and destinations.”. -- Microsoft, February 23, 2022. 1 concern and investment priority for security professionals. Machine Identity in a multi-cloud world.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2025

In practice, even with reasonable service level agreements (SLAs), IT usually has to mitigate those risks. The growth in CVEs (in 2021, there were 20,161 new CVEs; by 2024, that figure had almost doubled to 40,077) has resulted in teams being overwhelmed chasing down vulnerabilities. But CVEs are only part of the picture.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

Thanks to the exponential rise in attacks, cyber investment has skyrocketed. The DCMS Annual Cyber Sector report showed that the cyber industry contributed around £5.3 billion to the UK economy in 2021, rising by a third on the previous year. And the unfortunate reality is, they will continue to do so. Real time data.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Check out invaluable cloud security insights and recommendations from the “Tenable Cloud Risk Report 2024.” Plus, a PwC study says increased collaboration between CISOs and fellow CxOs boosts cyber resilience. Meanwhile, a report finds the top cyber skills gaps are in cloud security and AI.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 13, 2022

BOSTON–( BUSINESS WIRE )– CyberSaint , the developer of the leading platform delivering cyber risk automation, today announced CyberBase, the company’s new offering for small-to-medium sized businesses. Traditionally, assessments are performed manually on spreadsheets and are filled with opportunities for human error.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

billion in 2021, and growing concerns over data security , software supply chains , and ransomware suggest the market will remain strong through economic ups and downs. Luckily for cybersecurity startups, there’s no shortage of interest in tomorrow’s next big security vendors. AllegisCyber Investments. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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The Security Ledger

MAY 15, 2021

Intel 471 CISO Brandon Hoffman joins us to to discuss Darkside, the ransomware group that attacked the Colonial Pipeline, why the crew may have bitten off more than it can chew and what the attack says about the state of America's Critical Infrastructure. ” -Brandon Hoffman, CISO Intel 471. Read the whole entry. »

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

At SecureWorld's regional cybersecurity conferences , we've heard more than a few CISOs say something like this: "You need to have a conversation with your board in advance. We'll learn specifics about this trend during the State of the Phish Report 2021 , which is a SecureWorld webinar happening on February 11th.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

#BeCyberSmart,” with this post we’ll dig deeper on cyber liability insurance, MFA, and other cybersecurity trends impacting MFA usage in higher education to help campuses manage this aspect of cyber risk for their communities.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 18, 2022

BOSTON–( BUSINESS WIRE )– SimSpace , the leading cybersecurity risk management platform company, today announced HFS Research has named the company as a “Hot Vendor” in the Q4 2021 report. SimSpace was recognized for its Cyber Range platform that allows SecOps teams to optimize cybersecurity readiness.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) report from October of 2021, the cybersecurity insurance market, including both U.S. jump from the prior year and it is expected to increase by a large amount once 2021 totals are verified. Also see: Best Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Tools.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Deryck Mitchelson, EMEA field CISO for Check Point, chimed in on this point. He gave the example of the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline in 2021. This allows police to learn more about current cyber risks, he explained: “intelligence is the bedrock of policing”.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

The CIOs and CISOs suggested that while real-time patch status may be known for certain devices, it does not exist for many.”. A 2021 Masergy report, sponsored by Fortinet, showed cloud and connected medical device security are the biggest IT challenges facing healthcare entities under the current landscape. “The

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SecureWorld News

MAY 22, 2024

It cites cyber incidents such as the 2021 Oldsmar water treatment facility hack as examples of real-world risks. Kip Boyle , vCISO, Cyber Risk Opportunities LLC, said he worries the EPA's actions do not go far enough.

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