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Key factors driving changes in the perception of the CISO role
2023-04-12 04:30

The CISO role is currently fraught with novel challenges and escalating workloads. This includes increased paperwork and time spent on risk assessments, which have surged from two to thirty hours per assessment.

Hybrid work environments are stressing CISOs
2023-04-12 03:30

The impact of the hybrid workforce on security posture, as well as the risks introduced by this way of working, are posing concerns for CISOs and driving them to develop new strategies for hybrid work security, according to Red Access. The role of hybrid/remote work, and insecure browsing Hybrid work is here to stay.

Streamlining cybersecurity decision-making for analysts and CISOs
2023-04-04 04:00

Giorgos highlights the company's customizable technology, which can be tailored to meet the unique needs of different organizations, as well as the security measures that Elemendar takes to protect the data processed by their AI technology. That's because, to use CTI as structured, machine-readable data in a defensive system, you need to translate it from a human-readable form into a machine-readable one: the greatest benefit from cyber threat intelligence comes with higher-level information that is expressed in human-readable forms, because a human wrote it in the first place.

Even after armed with defense tools, CISOs say successful cyberattacks are ‘inevitable’: New study
2023-03-24 21:15

Tom Gillis, senior vice president for Cisco Security, said enterprises are in the midst of a strategic shift away from security through collections of individual software security tools and cloud solutions for securing assets. "For decades, new problems in security have arisen and small companies come up with innovative solutions to address these. But buying individual best-in-breed solutions from new vendors puts the burden on the customer to ingest all of these solutions and integrate them," Gillis said.

How healthcare CISOs can automate cloud security controls
2023-03-17 06:00

This article will outline some of the ways CISOs in the healthcare sector can automate cloud security controls and integrate those controls into standard deployment cycles. There are many cloud security frameworks and best practices.

What CISOs need to understand about document signing
2023-03-09 05:00

In this Help Net Security video, David King, Director of Innovation at GlobalSign, discusses document signing. Digital signatures utilize advanced cryptographic technology to provide the highest level of security for electronic signatures, surpassing all other forms of e-signatures.

Snap CISO: I rate software supply chain risk 9.9 out of 10
2023-03-04 00:01

SCSW On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the highest risk, Snap Chief Information Security Officer Jim Higgins rates software supply chain risk "About 9.9". Ten, for the record, is "Always security hygiene," he told The Register.

CISOs Are Stressed Out and It's Putting Companies at Risk
2023-03-01 11:30

CISOs at small to midsize businesses with teams of five employees or fewer were surveyed to better understand how work-related stress is impacting CISOs - from their ability to do their job and lead their team to how it's affecting their own professional outlook and personal life. According to the report, 94% of CISOs reported being stressed at work, with 65% confiding that work-stress levels compromised their ability to protect their organizations.

CISOs struggle with stress and limited resources
2023-02-23 04:30

94% of CISOs report being stressed at work, with 65% admitting work-related stress issues are compromising their ability to protect their organization, according to Cynet. According to the report, 74% say they are losing team members because of work-related stress issues, with 47% of these CISOs having more than one team member exit their role over the last 12 months.

A CISOs Practical Guide to Storage and Backup Ransomware Resiliency
2023-02-14 10:12

CISOs are concerned about the rise of ransomware - not only of the proliferation of attacks but also of their sophistication: "The storage and backup environments are now under attack, as the attackers realize that this is the single biggest determining factor to show if the company will pay the ransom," says George Eapen, Group CIO at Petrofac,. Immutable storage is the simplest way to protect backup data.