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Time for CEOs to Stop Enabling China's Blatant IP Theft
Protecting intellectual property in the name of US economic and national security should be part of every company's fiduciary duty.
Cybersecurity Bounces Back, but Talent Still Absent
While the demand for cybersecurity talent rebounds, organizations will need to focus on cyber-enabled roles to fill immediate skills gaps.
6 Lessons IT Security Can Learn From DevOps
DevOps has taken over enterprise software development. The discipline has lessons for IT security -- here are a quick half-dozen.
Post-COVID-19 Security Spending Update
Security spending growth will slow in 2020, but purse strings are looser than for other areas of IT.
5 Ways for Cybersecurity Teams to Work Smarter, Not Harder
Burnout is real and pervasive, but some common sense tools and techniques can help mitigate all that.
From Defense to Offense: Giving CISOs Their Due
In today's unparalleled era of disruption, forward-thinking CISOs can become key to company transformation -- but this means resetting relationships with the board and C-suite.
Redefining What CISO Success Looks Like
Key to this new definition is the principle that security programs are designed to minimize business risk, not to achieve 100% no-risk.
The Inside Threat from Psychological Manipulators
How internal manipulators can actually degrade your organization's cyber defense, and how to defend against them.
How CISOs Can Play a New Role in Defining the Future of Work
Rather than just reacting to security issues in the COVID-19 era, CISOs are now in a position to be change agents alongside their C-suite peers.
Black Hat USA 2020 Musings: Weird and Wonderful Virtual Events are Here to Stay
Black Hat USA 2020 was nothing like an in-person event, but it was incredibly useful for all involved, providing even the most grizzled industry veterans with fresh perspectives.
10 Resume and Interview Tips from Security Pros
Experts from the DEF CON Career Hacking Village explain how job seekers can build a resume and rock an interview.
Secure Development Takes a (Remote) Village
The shift to work from home isn't just about giving your Dev team the physical tools they need.
Black Hat USA 2020 Shines Spotlight on the Mental Challenges of Cybersecurity
Infosec practitioners face a variety of mental struggles in areas such as awareness training, problem solving, or general mental health. Several sessions at Black Hat USA 2020 highlighted these challenges and how to overcome them.
Hacking It as a CISO: Advice for Security Leadership
A security leader shares tips for adopting a CISO mindset, creating risk management strategies, and "selling infosec" to IT and executives.
Dark Reading Video News Desk Returns to Black Hat
UPDATED: Coming to you prerecorded from in front of carefully arranged bookcases around the world ...!
Where Dark Reading Goes Next
Dark Reading Editor-in-Chief gives a complete rundown of all the Dark Reading projects you might not even know about, his insight into the future of the security industry, and how we plan to cover it.
Four Rules and Three Tools to Protect Against Fake SaaS Apps
Here's how to blunt the twinned forces of shadow IT and counterfeit apps and keep your data safe.
Supporting Women in InfoSec
Maxine Holt, research director from Omdia, explains why the time is right for women to step into more cybersecurity jobs now.
Developing Community for Woman Infosec Pros in India
Vandana Verma tells us how women in India are finding support, education and love of cybersecurity through the growing InfosecGirls community.
What to Tell Young People of Color About InfoSec Careers
CEO and founder of Revolution Cyber Juliet Okafor and Baker Hughes Director of Global OT Security Programs Paul Brager talk about the unique lessons and hard truths they provide when mentoring young black cybersecurity professionals.
Pen Testers Share the Inside Story of Their Arrest and Exoneration
Coalfire's Gary De Mercurio and Justin Wynn share the inside story of their infamous arrest last year while conducting a contracted red-team engagement in an Iowa courthouse -- and what it took to clear their names.
A Paramedic's Guide to Cybersecurity: Video
In this video segment, the Dark Reading News Desk speaks to several guests about healthcare cybersecurity. We begin with Rich Mogull, infosec pro and paramedic, for a discussion about what lessons cybersecurity can learn from emergency medical services and the parallels that already exist.
CISA Offers Tool for Career Navigation
The new Cyber Career Pathways Tool helps individuals understand the roles in cybersecurity and how to prepare for them.
Cybersecurity Budget Rose in 2019, Uncertainty Prevails in 2020
Budgets rise as IT complexity continued to challenge companies, with identity and access management technology an increasingly common focus.
New 'Nanodegree' Program Provides Hands-On Cybersecurity Training
Emerging streamlined curriculum programs aim to help narrow the skills gap.
Omdia Cybersecurity Accelerator Analysts to Take Part in Black Hat USA 2020
Analysts will participate in the Black Hat Briefings, taking place Aug. 4-6, discussing cybersecurity research, offering exclusive video presentations, and meeting with vendors and attendees.
A Patriotic Solution to the Cybersecurity Skills Shortage
Why now is the right time for the security industry to invest in the human capital that will make technology better, smarter, and safer.
New Initiative Links Cybersecurity Pros to Election Officials
A University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy initiative will build a database of cybersecurity volunteers.
Ill-Defined Career Paths Hamper Growth for IT Security Pros
Appsec and cloud security skills are the most in demand, and a shortage of staff is wearing on security teams, a new study shows.
5 Tips for Optimizing Your Company's Cyber-Crisis Preparedness
Cyber-incident response often addresses short-term needs, but we need to broaden the view of crisis management to be more forward-thinking.
Black Hat Virtually: An Important Time to Come Together as a Community
The significance of this year's event hasn't changed a whit. It's an opportunity to share what we've learned, and plan how to protect each other and the public for the remainder of the pandemic and beyond.
Pandemic Credential Stuffing: Cybersecurity's Ultimate Inside Job
How stolen credentials for services like Zoom and password reuse practices threaten to compromise other accounts and applications.
Block/Allow: The Changing Face of Hacker Linguistics
Terms such as "whitelist," "blacklist," "master," and "slave" are being scrutinized again and by a wider range of tech companies than ever before.
Remote Work Could Help Cybersecurity’s Diversity Problem – But Will It?
Job market data from the second quarter suggests there are increasing opportunities for women and minorities in the world of remote work, but long-standing biases may provide resistance.
Q&A: How Systemic Racism Weakens Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity policy expert and attorney Camille Stewart explains how to dismantle systemic racism in the industry – and build a more diverse and representative workforce.
Cybersecurity Leaders: Invest In Your People
Training, especially cross-training, is insanely powerful when team members are able to experience, train, and work together. It also builds trust.
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.
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Special Report: Computing's New NormalThis 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.
How IT Security Organizations are Attacking the Cybersecurity Problem
The COVID-19 pandemic turned the world -- and enterprise computing -- on end. Here's a look at how cybersecurity teams are retrenching their defense strategies, rebuilding their teams, and selecting new technologies to stop the oncoming rise of online attacks.
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