President-elect Joe Biden announced funding to modernize secure IT and lure cyber talent to the public sector as part of his plan to stimulate the economy and rebuild in the wake of the pandemic. But cybersecurity experts remain skeptical that the newfound funding focus on cybersecurity will be enough to draw the necessary talent. Noting…
The number of SolarWinds victims will likely grow in the upcoming months, but direct insured costs should remain close to the current estimate since many of the organizations hit – particularly federal agencies – do not carry insurance against cyber risks.
Nicolas Reys of Control Risks spoke with SC Media about how companies can position themselves to rebound from a year complicated by the pandemic, climate change challenges and deteriorating U.S.-China relations.
Mimecast issued a new certificate and is urging affected customers to delete the old one after Microsoft warned of a compromise.
Contributing $5.4 trillion to the U.S. economy, the maritime transportation system will adhere to guidelines for threat information sharing, creating a cybersecurity workforce, and establishing a risk framework for operational technology.
The poor record raises questions about whether the mobile carrier’s massive merger with Sprint left the combined company more vulnerable.
If 2019 was an opportunity for privacy advocates to push for preparation ahead of looming data protection deadlines, then 2020 was the year organizations were expected to prove themselves ready. In this second article in our Year in Review series, we consider how legal complications leave all businesses, big and small, with a heavier privacy burden than ever.
The stack of technologies that 5G uses could allow attacks aimed at operator networks as well as subscribers, launched from international roaming networks, operator networks or even partner networks providing access to services.
Former NSA Chief Security Officer Chris Kubic, now CSO at Fidelis, spoke with SC Media about the current focus in the Pentagon, much like the private sector, to track down any impacted systems, while scrambling to get updated detection signatures.
Soft skills are not always the strong suit for security professionals, said Steve Durbin of the Information Security Forum. But “we’ve moved into a realm that those kind of things are really important.”
