Only 44% of healthcare providers conform to protocols outlined by the NIST CSF
Only 44% of healthcare providers, including hospital and health systems, conformed to protocols outlined by the NIST CSF – with scores in some cases trending backwards …
risk assessment
How do I select a risk assessment solution for my business?
One of the cornerstones of a security leader’s job is to successfully evaluate risk. A risk assessment is a thorough look at everything that can impact the security of …
Better cybersecurity hinges on understanding actual risks and addressing the right problems
SANS Technology Institute’s Internet Storm Center (ISC) has been a valuable warning service and source of critical cyber threat information to internet users, …
Are you sure you would never fall for a phishing scam?
We believe we are less likely than others are to fall for phishing scams, thereby underestimating our own exposure to risk, a cybersecurity study has found. The research also …
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 …
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 …
What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions?
Human beings are poor judges of risk. For example, we perceive the risk of air travel to be higher than it actually is after a fatal aviation-related accident happens. We also …
Too many alarms and too few security analysts? Think SOAR
Security automation, orchestration and response (SOAR) speeds up the incident response process by replacing manual tasks with automated workflows. We sat down with Swimlane …
54% of healthcare vendors have experienced a data breach of protected health information
More than half of all healthcare vendors have experienced a data breach that exposed protected health information (PHI), and it’s a costly problem that points to broken …
You are focusing too much on vulnerabilities that pose little danger
Only half of the vulnerabilities in cloud containers ever posed a threat, according to a Rezilion study. The top 20 most popular container images on DockerHub were analyzed to …
High-risk vulnerabilities and public cloud-based attacks on the rise
A sharp increase (57%) in high-risk vulnerabilities drove the threat index score up 8% from December 2019 to January 2020, according to the Imperva Cyber Threat Index. …
HECVAT toolkit helps higher education institutions assess cloud adoption risks
Higher education institutions are increasingly adopting cloud-based solutions in order to lower costs, improve performance and productivity, and increase flexibility and …
