How ransomware works
If your security team hopes to defend against emerging ransomware attacks, it is essential to know the business model of the attackers. Understand the business and you can develop defenses to break it.
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Todd Fitzgerald: ‘Do not expect trust. It must be earned’
Fitzgerald, chairman of the executive committee of Cybersecurity Collaborative, says soft skills will have a greater impact on a CISO’s long-term career than technical ones.
Sheldon Cuffie: ‘Maintain an unrelenting curiosity’
SC Media spoke with Sheldon Cuffie, enterprise chief information security officer of American Family Insurance, as part of a series of security leadership profiles prepared in partnership with Cybersecurity Collaborative.
Build and maintain a security culture, up, across, and down the organization
Instead of punishing or shaming your team for failing phishing simulations or similarly exercises within your training module, use analytics to see where they’re falling short and uncover why.
High-performance computing malware targeting Linux, Solaris and possibly Microsoft
The attacks have been spread out between the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and have included HPC clusters as well as university systems, a large internet service provider, personal systems, and marketing and hosting firms.
How to Address Your Biggest Risk: Extend User Security Beyond Training and Education
Your end users are your biggest source of risk. To mitigate this risk, you train and educate your users on security policy, but training and education is not enough.
‘Ghosts of legislations past’: Policy predictions for 2021
If 2020 brought deadlines tied to various privacy and data protection policies, then 2021 means compliance – with less leniency for companies that fall short of regulations.
From diversity efforts to pandemic recovery, workforce issues will evolve in 2021
Vaccine distribution could mean a return to offices, but most experts expect a new hybrid model to emerge. Pile that on top of the already challenging situation posed by a supposed skills gap and efforts to improve diversity, and the cybersecurity community may need to redefine workforce priorities.
2021 strategy predictions: Shifts in business models, shifts in security priorities
Enhanced email security? Growth of digital identities? Vulnerability management born from mergers and acquisitions? No more VPNs? Here, cybersecurity experts offer their take on what strategic shifts we should expect within the enterprise.
2021 threat predictions: Bad actors that honed their craft with COVID are ready to go big
Cyber experts expect more sophisticated attacks to come – with ransomware and phishing continuing at a steady, but more advanced clip, and emerging threats tied to deepfakes and 5G beginning to show impact.
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