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LW ROUNDTABLE: Wrist slap or cultural shift? SEC fines cyber firms for disclosure violations

The Last Watchdog

Unisys, for instance, was found to have framed cyber risks hypothetically even though its systems had already been breached, exfiltrating gigabytes of data. This enforcement has already had an impact on the sensitivity of CISOs managing their individual obligations. Some have moved away from the CISO role.

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LW ROUNDTABLE — How 2024’s cyber threats will transform the security landscape in 2025

The Last Watchdog

Well see CISOs increasingly demand answers about why models flag certain malicious activity and how that activity is impactful at enterprise scale. While cloud offers flexibility, it introduces new cyber risks. That’s the easy part. The hard part? To avoid tool fatigue, organizations need integrated platform solutions.

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Best Practices Q&A: Guidance about what directors need to hear from CISOs — from a board member

The Last Watchdog

CISOs can sometimes be their own worst enemy, especially when it comes to communicating with the board of directors. Related: The ‘cyber’ case for D&O insurance Vanessa Pegueros knows this all too well. She serves on the board of several technology companies and also happens to be steeped in cyber risk governance.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Compliance pressures intensify as new cybersecurity standards take hold

The Last Watchdog

Balonis Frank Balonis , CISO, Kiteworks By 2025, 75% of the global population will be protected under privacy laws, including U.S. Taylor Howard Taylor , CISO, Radware The EU’s AI First regulation aims to protect individuals from AI-based profiling and decision-making. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0

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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. Given carte blanche, many CISOs purchased a hodge podge of unproven point solutions, adding to complexity. Today, with purse strings tightened – and cyber risks and compliance pressures mounting — CISOs must recalibrate.

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NEW TECH: CyberGRX seeks to streamline morass of third-party cyber risk assessments

The Last Watchdog

So they began inundating their third-party suppliers with “bespoke assessments” – customized cyber risk audits that were time consuming and redundant. Kneip also painted the wider context about why effective third-party cyber risk management is an essential ingredient to baking-in security at a foundational level.

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3 biggest cyber risks from the Ukraine-Russia conflict

CSO Magazine

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is reason enough for all CISOs to place their teams at a heightened state of alert and readiness in the event of deleterious cyber actions by nation-state actors or the cybercriminal groups. preparing offensive cyber measures?