The imperative for CISOs during the COVID-19 pandemic is to do more with less. While disruptive attacks - as well as privacy concerns - keep rising, budgets are down. As organizations rapidly adopt new technologies, however, EY's Kris Lovejoy says CISOs must seize the opportunity to streamline.
To mitigate the risks posed by ransomware attacks, enterprises need to move from file-based security to a behavior-based approach, says Jennifer Ayers, vice president of the OverWatch division of Crowdstrike.
The distributed workforce, combined with the need to modernize and improve operational efficiency, has reframed digital transformation priorities and introduced new areas of risk to today's enterprise. In light of ongoing macroeconomic demands, the CISO is facing increasing pressure to deliver value.
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Jasbir Solanki, CEO of the Homeland and Cyber Security division of Mahindra Defense System Limited, likes to call his group "The special services of cybersecurity." In this exclusive session, Solanki shares his unique perspective on what to expect in 2021, including:
Lasting impacts of COVID-19
Evolving threats...
Ransomware attacks remain the top cyber-enabled threat seen by law enforcement. But phishing, business email compromises and other types of fraud - many now using a COVID-19 theme - also loom large, Europol warns in its latest Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment.
A recent ransomware attack on a provider of software used by firms involved with COVID-19 vaccine development and other drug clinical trials illustrates increasing cyberthreats facing medical industry supply chain partners.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis on why criminals continue to use darknet markets, despite the risks. Also featured: Hackers target Virgin Mobile KSA; coping with COVID-19 stress.
As businesses and societies recover from pandemic-battling postures, what strategic adjustments and controls must CISOs employ as we enter this "pandemic rebuilding period", especially when it comes to reviewing third-party agreements and managing emerging technologies? Join this exclusive panel for unique insight...
Everything has changed. Organizations have quickly pivoted towards the "new norm", adopting new practices and new technology solutions to support the business. Security multi-year strategies have not caught up. This new norm introduced new security threats to an already crowded threat landscape at a time when...
The number of cybersecurity incidents reported to the U.K.'s data privacy watchdog has continued to decline, recently plummeting by nearly 40%. But is the quantity of data breaches going down, or might organizations be failing to spot them or potentially even covering them up?
Preceding the outbreak of COVID-19 was a trend across industries to transform the traditional IT stack into a new form of computing, one that was focused on enabling agility and innovation while also delivering cost reduction. This shift sought to leverage public cloud and cloud-like development methods as well as...
Cybersecurity professionals expect a spike in ransomware attacks against school districts and universities this fall as new hybrid learning environments go online and unpatched equipment that has spent months in the homes of students and faculty is reconnected to school networks.
Financial crime has seen some unique spikes in the past year, and banking institutions are taking extraordinary steps to coordinate their detection, prevention and response efforts - much like their fraud fusion centers.
Jeff Dant, a former U.S. Secret Service agent, now plies his skills at BMO Financial Group, where...
Data is the lifeblood of modern organizations - and modern security operations. Today's SecOps teams must be more data-driven, leveraging automation, machine learning and other tools to quickly identify threats and reduce response times, while freeing up critical engineering and analyst resources. Splunk CISO Yassir...
A manufacturer of transit communication systems that pivoted to build ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic is reportedly the latest victim of the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang.
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