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Puzzles and Riddles Help InfoSec Pros Solve Real-World Problems
A researcher shares the unexpected lessons learned in years of creating puzzles and riddles for his cybersecurity colleagues.
'Make Your Bed' and Other Life Lessons for Security
Follow this advice from a famous military commanders' commencement speech and watch your infosec team soar.
A Paramedic's Lessons for Cybersecurity Pros
A paramedic turned cybersecurity expert shares his experiences in both fields, highlights their similarities, and explains how they can learn from each other.
Biden Campaign Hires 2 Top Cybersecurity Executives
The campaign has filled the positions of CISO and CTO in the runup to the 2020 presidential election.
Omdia Research Launches Page on Dark Reading
Data and insight from a leading cybersecurity research and analysis team will broaden the information available to security professionals and technology vendors.
Fight Phishing with Intention
Phishing exercises have become a staple, but it helps to be as clear as possible on exactly why you're doing them.
Why Cybersecurity's Silence Matters to Black Lives
The industry is missing an opportunity to educate the public about bad actors who capitalize off of protest, voting rights education and police brutality petitions through social engineering and phishing attacks.
Applying the 80-20 Rule to Cybersecurity
How security teams can achieve 80% of the benefit for 20% of the work.
Lessons from COVID-19 Cyberattacks: Where Do We Go Next?
We need to learn from the attacks and attempts that have occurred in order to prepare for the future.
Don't Slow Cybersecurity Spending: Steer into the Skid with a Tight Business Plan
We all know there are slippery conditions ahead, which is why it's never been more important for organizations to maintain and even increase their spending on cybersecurity.
Good Cyber Hygiene in a Pandemic-Driven World Starts with Us
Three ways that security teams can improve processes and collaboration, all while creating the common ground needed to sustain them.
'New Normal' Caption Contest Winners
Competitors submitted lots of clever virus puns, and the prizes go to ...
CISO Dialogue: How to Optimize Your Security Budget
CISOs are never going to have all the finances they want. Hard choices must be made. The CISO of Amazon Prime Video discusses his approaches to a slimmed-down budget.
7 Tips for Employers Navigating Remote Recruitment
Hiring experts explain how companies should approach recruitment when employers and candidates are working remotely.
Collaboration Undermined When Security Teams Work Remotely, Some Argue
Knowledge workers are perfectly suited for remote work, but the benefits of collaboration — and the requirements of proving identity — make fully remote security teams problematic.
3 Ways the Pandemic Will Affect Enterprise Security in the Future
While CISOs have been focused on immediate threats, it's time to look ahead to what a post-COVID-19 future will look like.
CSO's Guide to 'Employee-First' Security Operations During COVID-19 & Beyond
As the work-at-home environment continues to inform new ways of doing business, it's important that security teams remain flexible and ready for change.
Could Automation Kill the Security Analyst?
Five skills to ensure job security in the Age of Automation.
10 Tips for Maintaining Information Security During Layoffs
Insider cyberthreats are always an issue during layoffs -- but with record numbers of home-office workers heading for the unemployment line, it has never been harder to maintain cybersecurity during offboarding.
Companies Fall Short on Mandatory Reporting of Cybercrimes
Understaffed and under fire, companies fail to report cybercrimes even when they are legally obligated to notify authorities, results of a new survey show.
How AI and Automation Can Help Bridge the Cybersecurity Talent Gap
Without the right tools and with not enough cybersecurity pros to fill the void, the talent gap will continue to widen.
Cloud Security Architect Proves Hardest Infosec Role to Fill
Nearly 70% of businesses struggle to recruit, hire, and retain cybersecurity talent, and many link security incidents to lack of skills.
Q&A: Eugene Kaspersky on Tourism, the Pandemic, and Cybersecurity
The CEO and co-founder of eponymously named security vendor has launched a new travel accelerator program amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Security & Trust Ratings Proliferate: Is That a Good Thing?
Phishing ratings, security ratings, human-ness ratings -- we are looking at a future filled with grades of security and trustworthiness. But there is a downside.
The Need for Compliance in a Post-COVID-19 World
With the current upheaval, business leaders may lose focus and push off implementing security measures, managing risk, and keeping up with compliance requirements. That's a big mistake.
Digital Transformation Risks in Front-end Code
Why making every front-end developer a DevSecOps expert will lead to a more holistic approach to web and native application security.
Is Zero Trust the Best Answer to the COVID-19 Lockdown?
Enterprises need to recognize that remote access and other pandemic-related security challenges cannot be fixed with buzzwords or silver-bullet security tools.
Long-Term Remote Work: Keeping Workers Productive & Secure
The pandemic has changed how we get work done. Now, data security must catch up.
7 Security Pros: What My Nontraditional Background Brings to the Job
Job experience and degrees outside of the cybersecurity or IT world can provide invaluable diversity of thinking and problem-solving.
Cybersecurity Extends Far Beyond Security Teams & Everyone Plays a Part
Security isn't about tools or technology; it's about establishing a broad, fundamental awareness and sense of responsibility among all employees.
Compliance as a Way to Reduce the Risk of Insider Threats
Several key resources and controls can help reduce overall risk by providing guidance on proper control implementation, preventative measures to deploy, and an emphasis on organizationwide training.
Ensuring Business Continuity in Times of Crisis
Three basic but comprehensive steps can help you and your organization get through adversity
The Problem with Automating Data Privacy Technology
Managing complex and nuanced consumer rights requests presents a unique challenge for enterprises in today's regulated world of GDPR and CCPA. Here's why.
How Unconventional Professional Backgrounds Can Strengthen a Cybersecurity Team
Getting over the cybersecurity skills gap takes creativity, flexibility, and a willingness to go "off-script" when it comes to picking out candidates.
The Modern SOC Demands New Skills
Automation and other technologies are improving the organizational structure of the security operations center. This is ultimately for the better, but it means that roles will change too.
Companies Struggle for Effective Cybersecurity
The money companies are spending on cybersecurity tools doesn't necessarily result in better security, a new survey shows.
Stay-at-Home Students Offered Lessons to Boost Cybersecurity
Stuck at home with a primary- or secondary-school student? Organizations from professional training groups to national governments are teaming up to offer virtual cybersecurity training for teens -- in some cases, for free.
The Cybersecurity Hiring Conundrum: Youth vs. Experience
How working together across the spectrum of young to old makes our organizations more secure.
Things Keeping CISOs Up at Night During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Insights from discussions with more than 20 CISOs, CEOs, CTOs, and security leaders.
5 Big Lessons from the Work-from-Home SOC
Accustomed to working in the same room, security teams now must find ways to operate effectively in the new remote reality.
COVID-19 Quarantine: A Unique Learning Opportunity for Defenders
Use these spare moments at home to master new skills that will help protect your organization and enhance your career.
Find Your Framework: Thinking Fast and Slow
Economist Daniel Kahneman's classic book has lessons for those in security, especially now.
How the Dark Web Fuels Insider Threats
New decentralized, criminal marketplaces and "as-a-service" offerings make it easy for employees to monetize their knowledge and access to enterprise networks and systems.
Demand for Cybersecurity Jobs Declines But Still Outperforms Other Sectors
While companies are cutting back on plans to hire, cybersecurity and the technology industry as a whole are doing better than the general economy.
Making the Case for Process Documentation in Cyber Threat Intel
Standard language and processes, not to mention more efficient dissemination of findings and alerts all make documenting your security processes a must
Is COVID-19 Intensifying the Need for Security Staffing?
Overall, security practitioners should find themselves in a better working situation than many other professionals. However, we are not immune.
Remote Access Makes a Comeback: 4 Security Challenges in the Wake of COVID-19
As companies continue to support increasing numbers of work-from-home employees, the pressure to secure access and reduce risk has never been greater.
'Look for the Helpers' to Securely Enable the Remote Workforce
CISOs and CIOs, you are our helpers. As you take action to reassure your company, your confidence is our confidence.
5 Things Ransomware Taught Me About Responding in a Crisis
What happened in Atlanta is worth studying because it was one of the earliest cases of a major city ransomware attacks and because it came out the other side stronger and more resilient.
How Company Cultures Dictated Work-from-Home Readiness
Companies large and small are discovering just how prepared they were for all employees to work remotely
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Special Report: Computing's New Normal, a Dark Reading PerspectiveThis special report examines how IT security organizations have adapted to the "new normal" of computing and what the long-term effects will be. Read it and get a unique set of perspectives on issues ranging from new threats & vulnerabilities as a result of remote working to how enterprise security strategy will be affected long term.
The Threat from the Internet—and What Your Organization Can Do About It
This report describes some of the latest attacks and threats emanating from the Internet, as well as advice and tips on how your organization can mitigate those threats before they affect your business. Download it today!
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