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Despite the clear advantages of cloud infrastructure, one of the main challenges that often gets overlooked is the need to: trust that the infrastructure will be secure enough against threats and that the chosen cloud provider won't purposefully or inadvertently access the data processing on their infrastructure. Can I use secure enclaves to improve data collaboration with other teams?
CISOs are working overtime and can't always switch off from work, according to a recent Tessian report. That's double the amount of overtime that they worked in 2021.
Virtual Chief Information Security Officer services are growing in popularity, especially as growing cyber threats, tightening regulatory demands and strict cyber insurance requirements are driving small to medium-sized enterprises demand for strategic cybersecurity and compliance guidance and management. vCISO services are labor intensive, require highly skilled experts, and are difficult to scale.
In this Help Net Security interview, Chris Konrad, Area Vice President of Security, Global Accounts at World Wide Technology, offers advice to CISOs that are increasingly under pressure, discusses using a security maturity model, discusses interesting security technologies, and more. What advice would you give to a newly appointed CISO that strives to improve security strategy?
Three factors influencing growth in security spending are the increase in remote and hybrid work, the transition from virtual private networks to zero trust network access and the shift to cloud-based delivery models, according to Gartner. End-user spending on information security and risk management products and services is forecast to grow 11.3% to reach more than $188.3 billion in 2023.
In this Help Net Security video, Alfredo Hickman, Head of Information Security at Obsidian Security, discusses the importance of security stack consolidation for organizations looking to reduce...
Cybersecurity measures are increasingly failing to close gaps, and the healthcare industry, in particular, has become a high-dollar target due to limited budgets and quick ransom pay-offs. In this Help Net Security video, Maureen Kaplan, Chief Revenue Officer at SilverSky, discusses how attackers are now narrowing their focus from larger healthcare systems to smaller hospitals and specialty clinics to more easily retrieve patient data and use it for launching fraud and identity theft.
There is a disconnect between the boardroom and CISOs when evaluating the risk posed by today's sophisticated cybercriminals: 65% of board members believe that their organization is at risk of material cyber attack in the next 12 months, compared to 48% of CISOs. Board members and CISOs have similar concerns about the threats they face: board members ranked email fraud/business email compromise as their top concern, followed by cloud account compromise, and ransomware.
The relationship between boards of directors and CISOs could be better these days. According to a report from cyber security firm ProofPoint in collaboration with Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan, while 69% of board members report seeing eye-to-eye with their CISO, only 51% of CISOs say the same thing.
Splunk has appointed Jason Lee as the Company's Chief Information Security Officer, effective immediately. Lee will oversee all facets of global security to protect Splunk employees and customers, including cloud and application security, operations, threat management, penetration testing, risk, and customer trust.