cyber risk
Five contingency best practices for SOCs to handle uncertainty
With a crush of new teleworkers and a significant increase in endpoints coming online, we’ve entered into a new reality. COVID-19 has disrupted our lives and the business …
CISOs: Quantifying cybersecurity for the board of directors
Only 9% of security teams feel as if they are highly effective in communicating security risks to the board and to other C-suite executives, according to a recent survey …
Starbleed vulnerability: Attackers can gain control over FPGAs
Field Programmable Gate Arrays, FPGAs for short, are flexibly programmable computer chips that are considered very secure components in many applications. Starbleed …
Handbook: Cyber-Risk Oversight 2020
The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) and the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ecoDa) released Cyber-Risk Oversight 2020, a handbook on cyber-risk management …
The dangers of assumptions in security
Assuming things is bad for your security posture. You are leaving yourself vulnerable when you assume what you have is what you need, or what you have is working as …
Small businesses unprepared for remote working, most don’t provide cybersecurity training
Stay-at-home orders for more than 40 states have forced millions of businesses to establish remote workforces that rely solely on internet-enabled applications and products to …
Third-party risk is broken, businesses unprepared for supply chain disruptions
Many companies are not dedicating proper resources to assess third-party risks, and those that are still lack confidence in their programs, according to Prevalent. Supply …
Threat detection and the evolution of AI-powered security solutions
Ashvin Kamaraju is a true industry leader. As CTO and VP of Engineering, he drives the technology strategy for Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing, leading a researchers …
How can you strengthen an enterprise third-party risk management program?
We sat down with Sean Cronin, CEO of ProcessUnity, to explore the challenges related to enterprise third-party risk today and in the future. What are the most unexpected …
Large number of mobile apps may be vulnerable to hacking
A team of cybersecurity researchers has discovered that a large number of mobile apps contain hardcoded secrets allowing others to access private data or block content …
RDP and VPN use soars, increasing enterprise cyber risk
As COVID-19 slowly spread across the globe, consumer demand for commercial virtual private network (VPN) services has soared – both for security reasons and for …
Organizations not properly set up to manage risk, coronavirus pandemic reveals
Organizations’ current approach to risk governance is not sufficient to tackle the complex risk environment organizations are facing today, according to Gartner. The COVID-19 …