cyber risk
11 steps organizations should take to improve their incident response strategy
As the year draws to a close, it is time for businesses across all industries and sectors to reflect and prepare for the upcoming new year. With this in mind, FIRST has …
Winning the security fight: Tips for organizations and CISOs
For large organizations looking to build a robust cybersecurity strategy, failure to get the fundamentals in place practically guarantees a disaster. If you ask Matthew …
Internal user mistakes create large percentage of cybersecurity incidents
Internal user mistakes created the largest percentage of cybersecurity incidents over the past twelve months (80%), followed by exposures caused by poor network system or …
Educational organizations massively vulnerable to cyber attacks
The education sector is facing a crisis as schools grapple with high levels of risk exposure – driven in large part by complex IT environments and digitally savvy student …
Executives have to make cybersecurity a priority in order to secure their business
Businesses and organizations of all sizes have steadily begun to recognize the importance of cybersecurity to their success. As spending and awareness of the importance of …
Security and compliance gaps of ineffective employee onboarding and offboarding
There are significant gaps in the compliant management of employee resources throughout the employment lifecycle. Just 15% of employees have all the resources they require to …
49% of infosec pros are awake at night worrying about their organization’s cybersecurity
Six in every ten businesses have experienced a breach in either in the last three years. At least a third of infosec professionals (36%) whose employers had not recently been …
Cyber risks are the top concern among businesses of all sizes
Cyber risks are the top concern among businesses of all sizes for the first time since the Travelers Companies’ survey began in 2014. Of the 1,200 business leaders who …
Assessing risk: Measuring the health of your infosec environment
There is an uncomfortable truth that many organizations are not conducting comprehensive assessments of their information security risk; or those that do aren’t getting much …
Email is an open door for malicious actors looking to exploit businesses
There’s an alarming scale of risks businesses are up against in a time when email is proving an open door for cybercriminals and malicious actors looking to disrupt, …
A proactive approach to cybersecurity requires the right tools, not more tools
The key challenge facing security leaders and putting their organizations at risk of breach is misplaced confidence that the abundance of technology investments they have made …
How organizations view and manage cyber risk
Amid a wider range of issues to handle, a majority of board members and senior executives responsible for their organization’s cyber risk management had less than a day in the …