IoT Trust Framework: The foundation for future IoT certification programs
The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) released its updated IoT Trust Framework. Serving as a product development and risk assessment guide for developers, purchasers and retailers …
Mitigating internal risk: Three steps to educate employees
IT security is usually focused on how to prevent outsiders with malicious intent from causing harm to your IT systems and data. While this is a valid concern, people within …
Playing the blame game: Breaking down cybersecurity attribution
Attributing the adversary behind a cyber attack ranks as perhaps the hardest challenge in all of cyber security, well beyond securing networks from intrusions, for the simple …
The difficult path to cyber resilience
Global organizations are more confident than ever that they can predict and resist a sophisticated cyber attack, but are falling short of investments and plans to recover from …
Deadlines for investigating and reporting data breaches
75% of organisations set fixed time limits for investigating potential security incidents, according to Balabit. However, 44% of respondents reported missing internal or …
Approaching security self-sufficiency
As part of my role as CSO, I’m extremely lucky to get to have conversations with CISOs, CTOs, and other technology leaders across industries. One of the things that has always …
The new CISO imperative: Solving the information management paradox
In the drive to become more cyber resilient in 2017, organizations are extending risk management that is traditionally based on parametric measures (i.e., data loss prevention …
DevSecOps to drive the digital imperative
Dan Hushon, CSC’s CTO, has identified six trends around the philosophy of DevSecOps that company leaders need to be thinking about to drive digital transformation. …
How to create a safer shopping experience
The annual holiday season has arrived. The air grows crisp (at least in the Northern hemisphere), new, cool gadgets are released and cyberattacks, along with cologne ads, …
12 tips for implementing secure business practices
Optiv Security shared a list of a dozen tips for implementing secure business practices during the 2016 holiday season. Security experts developed these recommendations to …
CISOs must assess risks and identify the real security budget
Organizations spend an average of 5.6 percent of the overall IT budget on IT security and risk management, according to Gartner. However, IT security spending ranges from …
Cybersecurity gamification: A shortcut to learning
Cybersecurity awareness trainings are usually a boring affair, so imagine my colleagues’ surprise when I exited the room in which I participated in a demonstration of …