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

The Last Watchdog

Responses edited for clarity and length: Ambuj Kumar , CEO, Simbian Kumar While the SEC has fined the corporations, CISOs are worried that they may be held individually responsible and feel targeted by both attackers and now law enforcement. Some have moved away from the CISO role.

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From Pest Control to Cybersecurity: What CISOs Can Learn from Pestie

SecureWorld News

As I was spraying Pestiea DIY pest spray subscription servicearound my home this weekend (sun's out, spray gun's out), I was thinking about the correlation of this home perimeter defense to what CISOs and their teams do to keep their organizations secure. CISO takeaway: Effective cybersecurity isn't a generic solution.

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Black Hat insights: JupiterOne’s whodunnit puts CISOs on the trail of solving a devastating breach

The Last Watchdog

Related: A call to regulate facial recognition That said, a few dozen CISOs attending Black Hat USA 2023 will get to experience, hands-on, what it must have been like to be in the crucible of milestone hacks like Capital One, SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline. The Data Heist’s opening night, if you will, was in Boston a couple of weeks ago.

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What Your CISO Can Learn From Logan Paul vs Floyd Mayweather

Javvad Malik

If you break it down, you can say, Logan Paul got paid around $1 for every fan he got to tune into the event. Who cares about the CISO? Now contrast this with a CISO, or a security department within an organisation. What kind of relationship has that CISO formed with their audience? Conclusions.

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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. “So when a CISO or anybody comes into a board room and says, ‘if we don’t do this, this is going to happen,’ it makes them all feel anxious and they start to close down their thought processes around it.”

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GUEST ESSAY: Could CISOs be on the verge of disproving the ‘security-as-a-cost-center’ fallacy?

The Last Watchdog

So how will this affect chief information security officers (CISOs) and security programs? Given the perennial skills and staffing shortage in security, it’s unlikely that CISOs will be asked to make deep budget or staffing cuts, yet they may not come out of this period unscathed. Related: Attack surface management takes center stage.

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What Should CISOs Prioritize In A Volatile Landscape?: A Webinar With Top CyberSecurity Columnist Joseph Steinberg

Joseph Steinberg

The post What Should CISOs Prioritize In A Volatile Landscape?: The webinar will take place on Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 10:00 AM US Pacific time = 1 PM US Eastern. The webinar is FREE to join thanks to sponsorship by ColorTokens.

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