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Welcome To My Cyber Security Nightmare
Happy Halloween. Here are three chilling scenarios that will keep even the most hardened infosec warrior awake all night.
How I Became a CISO: Janet Levesque, RSA
RSA's newest chief information security officer says she landed the job because of her ability to build relationships, not a background in crypto or a pile of certs.
Incident Response: Is Your IR Plan A Glorified Phone Tree?
Training internal security teams to be first responders can drastically improve an organization's effectiveness in the wake of a data breach. Here's why.
How To Become A CISO, Part 1
Think you're ready for the top job? Here's part 1 of a series to help you land that prime chief information security officer position.
Insider Threats: Breaching The Human Barrier
A company can spend all the money it has on technical solutions to protect the perimeter and still not prevent the attack that comes from within.
Security Education K Through Life
InfoSec professionals of the future need access to the right education and tools early on and throughout their entire work life.
2 Tech Challenges Preventing Online Voting In US
A new report explains that online voting in the US is a matter of "if, not when," but problems of anonymity and verifiability must be solved first.
How Retail Can Win Back Consumer Trust
Customer loyalty to their favorite brands is all about trust, which today has everything to do with security and privacy.
Good Job, Facebook: The Intersection Of Privacy, Identity & Security
Birth names and legal names aren’t always the names people are best known by, concedes Facebook in the wake of a real-name policy usage flap.
Poll: Employees Clueless About Social Engineering
Not surprisingly, our latest poll confirms that threats stemming from criminals hacking humans are all too frequently ignored.
5 New Truths To Teach Your CIO About Identity
When CIOs talk security they often use words like "firewall" and "antivirus." Here’s why today’s technology landscape needs a different vocabulary.
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The 10 Most Impactful Types of Vulnerabilities for Enterprises TodayManaging system vulnerabilities is one of the old est - and most frustrating - security challenges that enterprise defenders face. Every software application and hardware device ships with intrinsic flaws - flaws that, if critical enough, attackers can exploit from anywhere in the world. It's crucial that defenders take stock of what areas of the tech stack have the most emerging, and critical, vulnerabilities they must manage. It's not just zero day vulnerabilities. Consider that CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog lists vulnerabilitlies in widely used applications that are "actively exploited," and most of them are flaws that were discovered several years ago and have been fixed. There are also emerging vulnerabilities in 5G networks, cloud infrastructure, Edge applications, and firmwares to consider.
Incident Readiness and Building Response Playbook
In this special report, learn the Xs and Os of any good security incident readiness and response playbook.
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