strategy
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 …
End the air gapping myth in critical infrastructure security
In an environment where we’re seeing increasing demand for connectivity between operational technology (OT) and IT, security teams have to dispel the air gapping myth to …
Should security vendors offer product guarantees?
A new Vanson Bourne survey of 500 businesses in the UK, US, France and Germany revealed that nine in ten companies want to see IT security vendors offer a guarantee on their …
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 …
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 …
The early IoT gets the worm
Five days after the start of World War I, Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary, remarked to a close friend, “The lights are going out all over Europe, we shall not see …
Corporate data left unprotected in the wild
A new survey conducted by YouGov has highlighted the risks to corporate data from poor encryption, and employee use of unauthorised and inadequately protected devices. The …
Security startup confessions: Customer breach disclosure
My name is Kai Roer and I am a co-founder of European security startup CLTRe, and these are my confessions. I hope you will learn from my struggles, and appreciate the choices …