Tag: CISO
Those of us at a certain age (ahem) grew up in a simpler time. Email was largely unheard of. There was no social media, no Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. There was no e-commerce, no Amazon, Alibaba or Taobao. No online banking. No online dating. Credit card transactions were processed manually. Local businesses accepted personal checks.…
Read MoreThere is an unspoken assumption that pervades the information security industry. It is a vestige from the days when system administrators were the security staff, and the ways in which customers and organizations interacted with the Internet were markedly different from how they are now. This assumption is that the boundary that separates our network…
Read MoreAt F5, we dedicate a lot of time to identifying and validating vulnerabilities. We use a variety of vulnerability scanning tools at a regular, frequent tempo to give us an up-to-date picture of our risk footprint. On top of that, we pay attention to user reporting, information we get from various threat intelligence sources, and…
Read MoreLearn from CISOs who describe how they would “do it over” again in some of their early security program deployments. Source link lol
Read MoreComputer geeks love their acronyms. Here’s one more: TANSTAAFL. There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. No, I’m not talking about the grilled Alaskan salmon meal you got while playing on your phone instead of listening to the vendor pitch. I mean that if we want better security, someone has to pay for…
Read MoreImagine a network of intelligent sensors and content filters that connects to every endpoint in an enterprise network. It is scalable, resilient, adaptable, and features the gold standard (for the moment at least) in natural language processing. It has an average uptime of 98% during business hours. Even better, all organizations already have this tool.…
Read MoreWe wrote an article recently asking security leaders to talk about their past failures and the lessons they wanted to pass on to others. We called it If I Had to Do It Over Again, and our readers really liked it. A number of folks approached me wanting to tell their stories as well, so…
Read MoreTeam leader, network administrator, data miner, money specialist. These are just some of the roles making a difference at today’s enterprises. The same is also true for sophisticated cyber-gangs. Many still wrongly believe that the dark web is exclusively inhabited by hoodie-clad teenagers and legions of disaffected disruptors. The truth is, the average hacker is…
Read MoreOver the years, I’ve seen articles comparing cybersecurity to martial arts, so I’ve been reluctant to write one. I’ll be the first to admit, I’m no Jeremiah Grossman, black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but I have done martial arts on and off since I was in elementary school. Now that my son has begun that…
Read MoreThere’s no doubt your information is out there. And at a certain point, you have to assume it’ll be exposed. So now what? With everything that’s happened in cybersecurity over the past few years and in the wake of so many high profile breaches all over the world, it’s time for a shift in mindset.…
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