CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 30, 2023

Seasoned CISOs/CSOs understand the importance of effectively communicating cyber risk and the need for investment in cybersecurity defense to the board of directors. One key aspect of successful communication is understanding the business objectives and risk appetite of the organization.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The vulnerabilities and challenges associated with declining worker mental health is causing cybersecurity risks to increase, especially from insider threats. Mental health cyber risks. Declining workplace mental health is affecting cybersecurity in various ways. Steeper leadership challenges.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

When reporting to the board, a CISO must translate risk into identifiable terms to present key findings and ensure that all cybersecurity initiatives are aligned with business objectives. Cyber risk mitigation expenditures help translate risk into potential additional profit.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We hear it all the time: there are not enough people to fill all the cybersecurity roles (including CISOs) that are currently available, not to mention the openings expected in the coming months and years. Being a CISO sometimes serves as the catalyst to finding a new career path.". People want: Work-life balance.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 28, 2024

With the emergence of new cybersecurity regulations like the SEC’s incident disclosure rules and the EU’s NIS2 Directive, much attention is directed towards understanding and complying with these new incident reporting requirements.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 18, 2023

“ Cybersecurity Leaders Suffer Burnout as Pressures of the Job Intensify ,” says a headline in The Wall Street Journal. Seventy-three percent of US CISOs in a survey reported hitting that hopeless state, The Journal reports.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 1, 2022

Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rules and amendments to enhance and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident reporting by public companies (The SEC has opened a comment period until May 9th, 2022 before it moves towards a final decision).

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This intensification of our digital life, with shopping, work, leisure, and several other activities that we were able to take into the networks, just shed more light on a confrontation that needs to be collective and global – the fight against cyber threats and crimes. So, what is an already over-stressed CISO to do?

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

CISO is a high-stakes position, and possibly the most important business relationship/direct report a CEO can have. At Axio, our platform enables companies to perform cyber risk quantification (CRQ), which analyzes the unique risks to.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Alkove Jim Alkove , CEO, Oleria Identity is cybersecurity’s biggest challenge. Sundaresan Bindu Sundaresan , Cybersecurity Director, LevelBlue In 2025, cybercriminals will exploit supply chain vulnerabilities, ransomware, IoT botnets, and AI-driven phishing. Attackers arent hacking in theyre logging in. The hard part?

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Are you ready to deepen your cybersecurity knowledge and take your skills to the next level? AI Unleashed: Cybersecurity Strategies for an Autonomous Future Instructor: Larry Wilson, CISSP, CISA, Sr. But as AI becomes more embedded in our systems, it also introduces unique challenges to cybersecurity.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 28, 2023

As cyber threats increase in frequency and complexity, organizations recognize the importance of having a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to protect their sensitive data and infrastructure. Commit to Learning and Participation As a CISO, you probably have an endless to do list of vital chores that can keep you preoccupied.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 26, 2023

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. It's unprecedented: this is likely the first time a CISO has ever received one of these. So it seems odd for a CISO to get one of these," he wrote. federal securities laws."

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2024

This year, virtual CISOs must begin making a difference in our industry. For the longest time, small and medium businesses (SMBs) have been abandoned by the cybersecurity industry. Sadly, SMBs cannot afford an experienced full-time CISO. But they don’t actually need a full-time CISO. Rather it is the opposite.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 12, 2021

Federal Reserve Chairman Statement on Cyber Risk. Cybersecurity continues to rise in prominence. SecureWorld has frequently commented on cybersecurity's rise to prominence during the last decade. Time and again we've watched organizations hire their first ever named CISO or equivalent.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 9, 2023

Proofpoint today released its annual report titled, "2023 Voice of the CISO: Global insights into CISO challenges, expectations and priorities," in which it surveyed 1,600 CISOs sharing their experiences over the past year and their outlook for what is to come for the cybersecurity industry. That's changing.

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Jane Frankland

MARCH 8, 2025

For nearly a decade, we’ve heard the same discussion in cybersecurity circles about the gender diversity problem. Yet here we are, in 2025, and the percentage of women in cybersecurity remains stagnantor worse, is backtracking. Meanwhile, cybersecurity job vacancies are skyrocketing. It’s utter madness.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 24, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sometime this year will require corporate boards to clean up their cybersecurity act and increase transparency by disclosing cybersecurity incidents with full details to the SEC and investors within four business days.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Cyber Risk Quantification needs to be the strategy driving your cybersecurity roadmap and priorities starting now. Read article > The post Time is Not on Your Side: Why Every CISO needs a Cyber Risk Quantification Strategy before It’s Too Late appeared first on Axio.

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Given the connectivity needs of a remote workforce – and knowing a hybrid workforce is here to stay – many IT teams have had to make sudden changes in the way workers connect to corporate systems that could introduce new cyber risks and vulnerabilities. . Cloud dominance . Security landscape requires adaptation .

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Cyberrisk is business risk. We hear this at SecureWorld cybersecurity conferences on a regular basis. But how should we communicate this risk to the business, to clients, or to investors? On page 34 of the report, Accenture dives into the risk that cyber poses to the business. That's where the fine print comes in.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2022

I had the chance to sit down with their CISO, Dave Stapleton, to learn more about the latest advancements in TPRM security solutions. Cyber risks profiling. CyberGRX’s global cyber risk Exchange caught on quickly. Stapleton characterizes this as “cyber risk intelligence” profiling. based CyberGRX.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 6, 2023

So it's fitting that a recent SecureWorld webcast, sponsored by Spirion, tackles the topic of "Does ChatGPT Belong on Your Cyber Risk Register? CEO of Global Cyber Risk LLC, offers this advice: "You need to have a process for evaluating the risks associated with that technology, in this case Chat GPT. Westby, Esq.,

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Jane Frankland

MAY 8, 2024

So where does AI stand in the realm of cybersecurity, and how can we leverage it for protection rather than harm? From the potential benefits of using AI to detect and prevent cyberattacks, to the ethical concerns surrounding its use in cybersecurity, I’ll be covering a wide range of topics.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2021

Here is a tale of a CISO who has everything but is still very unhappy because she can’t quantify her organization’s cyber risk… Our CISO’s organization has invested in dozens of cybersecurity tools in the last few years. The post Is It Time to Rethink That Cybersecurity Data Lake?

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Trend Micro

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Overworked CISOs are struggling to deliver the cybersecurity results their organizations expect. Fortunately, there are concrete and practical ways they can make their lives easier—while managing cyber risk effectively.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 31, 2023

Cybersecurity professionals have various views on last week's news from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) when it surprised the InfoSec community and the C-suites of corporate America. Currently, many public companies provide cybersecurity disclosure to investors.

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SC Magazine

MAY 11, 2021

Today’s columnist, Sean McDermott of RedMonocle, says that companies should use the NIST 800-53 security and privacy controls to help find cyber risk blind spots. The rapid, overnight shift exposed new cyber risk blind spots and gaps unknown to security leaders or executive teams. FUND cybersecurity priorities.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 25, 2021

With the demand for cybersecurity professionals at an all-time high, the culture and workplace environment can be a deciding factor when selecting an organization to work for. Cybersecurity officials struggle in Florida. Cybersecurity concerns in Florida State Government. And this is increasing cyber risk.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 12, 2023

The influential Director’s Handbook on Cyber-Risk Oversight , recently released by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), sets its first principle as “Directors need to understand and approach cybersecurity as a strategic, enterprise risk, not just an IT risk.”

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SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2023

According to a press release yesterday from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the agency has "adopted rules requiring registrants to disclose material cybersecurity incidents they experience and to disclose on an annual basis material information regarding their cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 5, 2021

A group of investors filed the suit which specifically calls out SolarWinds, its former CEO, and also Tim Brown, who is VP of Security and CISO. And in this case, the lawsuit claims that inaction around cybersecurity led to deception for investors. The C-Suite needs to ensure that its actions are comprehensive and well supported.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2022

A look ahead to 2023 we can expect to see changes in MFA, continued Hactivism from non-state actors, CISOs lean in on more proactive security and crypto-jackers will get more savvy. 5 – Recession requires CISOs to get frank with the board about proactive security. By Marcus Fowler, CEO of Darktrace Federal.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) is proposing an amendment to its regulations that will require financial services companies to up their cybersecurity game. Designate a qualified individual (CISO or equivalent) responsible or overseeing and implementing a cybersecurity program and enforcing its cybersecurity policy.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

All you IT professionals out there in UK, are you interested in making Cybersecurity as your main career option…? Cyber Security Analyst is paid £40k as a minimum basic pay and the max he/she can get is £80k. The post Salary given to cybersecurity specialists in UK appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As cybersecurity matures, the concept of resilience has taken on new dimensions, at least according to Commvault’s CEO, Sanjay Mirchandani. A scenario where you could face any looming cyber crisis knowing that you’d emerge unscathed. As ITDMs, CISOs and cyber risk owners this is our dream scenario, and he got me thinking.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In Q&A format, they share about their professional journeys, unique experiences, and hopes for the future of cybersecurity—along with some personal anecdotes. He helps senior decision makers overcome cybersecurity sales objections and manages unlimited cyber risks through rigorous prioritization. A : I backed into it!

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