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On the Irish Health Services Executive Hack

Schneier on Security

It had no documented cyber incident response runbooks or IT recovery plans (apart from documented AD recovery plans) for recovering from a wide-scale ransomware event. Antivirus software triggered numerous alerts after detecting Cobalt Strike activity but these were not escalated. The antivirus server was later encrypted in the attack).

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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.

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Zero Trust and the Failure of Sampling: Two Important Cybersecurity Trends

Joseph Steinberg

Many of Gillis’s comments echoed those that I have heard in recent months from CISOs and others within the cybersecurity industry who witness developments from various vantage points quite different from those of a vendor of cybersecurity technologies.

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Introducing our new CISO Advisor, Pam Lindemeon

Cisco Security

I’m delighted to announce the latest member of our growing CISO Advisor team, Pam Lindemeon. Pam joins us with 25 years experience in the IT industry, with her most recent role being Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at Anthem, Inc. I grew from there, and ended up becoming the Deputy CISO for the global organization.

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You've Made the Ascent to CISO. Now What?

SecureWorld News

Embrace the challenges of cybersecurity leadership For many of us in the security industry, it ' s the pinnacle of our career. You've gone to events and dinners. And now, you finally got that call, to be a CISO at an organization. Was there a previous CISO? You ' ve worked in the trenches. You've built your network.

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How CISOs Can Impact Security for All

Cisco Security

Insights from our new Advisory CISO, Helen Patton. If there’s anyone who’s been put through their paces in the security industry, it’s Helen Patton , our new Advisory Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). And before that she spent about 10 years as a security leader at JPMorgan Chase. Q: Welcome, Helen!

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Hearing from CISOs at Google Cloud and Beyond

Anton on Security

In fact, many “CISO priorities lists” are floating out there online and many people claim to know “what CISOs want.” My analyst years taught me to be skeptical about such claims, if only because there are vast differences between CISOs of different organizations, in terms of security maturity, for example.

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