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Despite massive spend to protect enterprise digital assets, security breaches are still on the rise. The disconnect between the level of investment and the volume and impact of attacks is largely attributed to outdated approaches that favor perimeter protection and point solutions despite a digital supply chain that is more distributed than ever.
The rapid changes in both IT networks and the external threat landscape over the last decade have made it exponentially more difficult to identify and remediate the vulnerabilities with the greatest potential impact on the enterprise. With a record of 18,378 vulnerabilities reported by the National Vulnerability Database in 2021 and an influx of new attack techniques targeting increasingly complex and distributed environments, how can CISOs know where to start?
Troubled social media giant Twitter has lost the services of its chief information and security officer to cap off another chaotic week following its acquisition by Elon Musk. Chief privacy officer Damien Kieran and chief compliance officer Marianne Fogarty are also said to have exited.
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.