The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2024

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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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

To mitigate risks, businesses will invest in modern, privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), such as trusted execution environments (TEEs) and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Balonis Frank Balonis , CISO, Kiteworks By 2025, 75% of the global population will be protected under privacy laws, including U.S.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 26, 2021

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). Helen has come to Cisco from The Ohio State University, where she served as CISO for approximately eight years.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 19, 2023

I had the chance to discuss this with Shinichi Yokohama, NTT Global CISO and John Petrie, Counselor to the NTT Global CISO, at RSA Conference 2023. As companies adjusted in the post pandemic operating environment, Internet-centric services rose to the fore. Towards zero-trust So how should CISOs steer their organizations?

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 10, 2022

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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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This affected all levels of the cybersecurity landscape, and it has had a particularly broad impact for those in the C-Suite, specifically, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). So, what is an already over-stressed CISO to do? Technological update. Technological integration. Practices with strong success Impact.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

Spy”-type cyberspace race as both criminals and defenders vie to gain the upper hand using new and emerging technologies. Every technology that enables our cyber teams to pinpoint and resolve threats and prevent attacks more quickly and accurately also benefits cybercriminals. We call these threat actors “ Quasi-APTs.”.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Thankfully, customers can still visit physical stores to purchase their favorite treats, but the incident reminds us of our operational reliance on interconnected technologies. The attack goes to show that, truly, nothing Internet-connected is sacred." Cybersecurity experts often ask critical questions: "What is our attack surface?"

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2024

The technology and best practices for treating cybersecurity as a business enabler, instead of an onerous cost-center, have long been readily available. These key capabilities fall under the four competencies of oversight, process risk management, technology risk management, and human risk management. What are some basic first steps?

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Delta Air Lines CISO Debbie Wheeler has a vast environment to secure, ranging from the corporate systems that are typical for any business to customer interfaces to kiosks sitting in airports around the world—and the slew of data coming in from all the applications that they house.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2024

For all the discussion around the sophisticated technology, strategies, and tactics hackers use to infiltrate networks, sometimes the simplest attack method can do the most damage. Unitronics systems are exposed to the Internet and a single intrusion caused a ripple effect felt across organizations in multiple states.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Tens of thousands of applications that are critical to the operations of data centers around the globe are exposed to the internet, with many secured with default factory passwords, posing a significant cyber risk to enterprises worldwide. Exposing that to the public internet is like allowing terrorists to direct air traffic control.”.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 31, 2023

Sam Masiello , CISO, The Anschutz Corporation: "I would expect that many CISOs today are feeling as if their job just got harder and now has a brighter spotlight shining specifically on them. Many CISOs are already burnt out, and there is shortage of qualified CISOs globally. CISOs are expected to be a unicorn already.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I had the opportunity to sit down with DigiCert’s Jason Sabin , Chief Technology Officer and Avesta Hojjati , Vice President of Engineering to chew this over. And PKI is the best technology we’ve got to get us there. We met at DigiCert Trust Summit 2023. A we turn the corner into 2024, Digital Trust is in sight.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 23, 2025

The 2025 DBIR is a call to arms for CISOs and security leaders to rethink how they detect, respond to, and recover from breaches. Vice President, Security & AI Strategy, and Field CISO at Darktrace: "While GenAI was the talk of 2024, Agentic AI will be a significant focus for organizations in the year ahead. Nicole Carignan , Sr.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The new normal CISOs face today is something of a nightmare. We can plug in parts or all of a complete stack of cutting-edge security technologies, and provide the expertise an organization requires to operate securely in today’s environment.”. Network security has been radically altered, two-plus years into the global pandemic.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The duties of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) change and expand along with the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and operational technology (OT). The CISO must eliminate threats posed by warehouse systems, networked machinery, […]. Let’s find out what gives OT security experts the creeps.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Curtis and I discuss the growing cyber risks posed by Internet of Things devices within enterprise networks. IoT and OT (operation technology) deployments are growing and pose challenges to organizations that are still. Curtis and I discuss the growing cyber risks posed by Internet of Things devices within enterprise networks.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 12, 2024

The benefits of advanced TPRM technologies extend beyond implementing these audits much more efficiently and effectively at scale. With “companies approaching 100 percent third-party integration,” CISOs are making TPRM a top priority, he says. “It’s It’s just an enormous challenge. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

You can imagine that one person — the only one in a family comfortable with technology — might be sitting there registering all their family members one by one, directing them all back to the same email address. Think of adults who are trying to register their parents in nursing homes; think of parents trying to register their children.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2020

We find many CISOs spend their time explaining what threats matter and why, as opposed to why cybersecurity matters in the first place,” he says. As part of the rush to leverage the Internet cloud to transact with remote workers, third-partner suppliers and customers, companies opened up endless fresh attack vectors. I’ll keep watch.

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SC Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

A visitor photographs a symbol of a cloud at the Deutsche Telekom stand the day before the CeBIT technology trade fair. It’s about how you can do your business mission” in a different environment, with its own requirements for protecting data, Vickers said during his talk at the RSA Show’s Cloud Security Alliance CISO Summit.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

Threat actors are scanning the Internet for Citrix systems affected by the recently disclosed vulnerabilities. Citrix CISO, Fermin J. ” reads the post published by the SANS Technology Institute. ” reads the post published by the SANS Technology Institute.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 6, 2024

A new Forrester Trends Report dissects ten IAM trends now in play, notably how AI is influencing IAM technologies to meet evolving identity threats. A new Forrester Trends Report dissects ten IAM trends now in play, notably how AI is influencing IAM technologies to meet evolving identity threats. Related: Can IAM be a growth engine?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2022

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recognized this huge security gap for what it was, and issued NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171 –detailed criteria for securely configuring cloud connections. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 26, 2024

In the past, the primary emphasis in the cybersecurity community has been on data protection—especially personal information," said William Lidster , CISO of AAA Washington. The CISO panel—the opening keynote on Day 2—features Maggie Amato , Sr.

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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. Questionnaire answers get cross referenced against cybersecurity best practice protocols put out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, namely NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 17, 2022

By Tyler Farrar, CISO, Exabeam. The pandemic spurred digital transformation unlike anything we have ever seen since the dawn of the internet as we know it. In almost every case, technology has played a vital role in facilitating and supporting these changes. Unfortunately, so were cyber adversaries. Leaving The Legacy.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

Often a combination of disruptive technologies, lagging risk behavior trends, shifts in threat actor capabilities or focus, greater expectations for cybersecurity, and new regulatory structures emerge to wreak havoc. There is a method to the madness of trying to forecast such a complex and muddled industry. In 2024: 1.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Never in history have companies had access to so many technologies and tools to defend themselves. This has created what the Center for internet Security calls the “fog of more,” where a deluge of choices make decisions difficult to manage. Listen to episode 11 of CISO Stories: Is There a Magic Security Control List?

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SC Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

With its tailored controls, micro-perimeters and trust-nothing approach to access, Zero Trust gives CISOs confidence that their security program can secure their remote workforce and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Thanks to a rapid shift to remote work, Zero Trust is finally garnering the attention it deserves.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This is a well-reasoned treatise collaboratively assembled by board members of the Internet Security Alliance ( ISA.) Part two is comprised of essays by CISOs from leading enterprises outlining what needs to get done. It also advocates a smarter, more concerted public-private partnership as the core solution.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Related: The shared burden of securing the Internet of Things. Company networks must support endless permutations of users and apps, both on-premises and in the Internet cloud. For instance, SD-WAN solutions have generally lacked threat prevention capacities that CISOs today look for in cybersecurity solutions, Greenfield observes.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Within these government labs and agencies, taking place is a groundswell of innovation in deep technology cyber disciplines to the tune of billions of dollars annually over the past three decades. In Silicon Valley, the initial technology seeds were planted in World War II, when the U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 9, 2023

Technology oversight is a common mandate across IT and security frameworks and compliance specifications, but achieving that oversight is difficult. First, technology and operational intelligence, across the myriad of users, endpoints, applications and infrastructure, is siloed and fragmented. By Scott Gordon, CISSP, Oomnitza .

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

SOAR, if you haven’t heard, is a hot new technology stack that takes well-understood data mining and business intelligence analytics methodologies — techniques that are deeply utilized in financial services, retailing and other business verticals – and applies them to cybersecurity. Smart money.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 29, 2021

With Black Hat USA 2021 just around the corner, I had a deep discussion about this with Eric Kedrosky, CISO and Director of Cloud Research at Sonrai Security. Sonrai is bringing graph database technology to bear on cloud security at a time when the migration from on-premises company data centers to the cloud is in full swing.

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