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The shared responsibility in security is closely tied to how employees at all levels perceive the importance of security. How do we get through that dissonance and get people engaged in security?
As companies started to realize the business value digital transformation unlocks in terms of operations efficiency, performance, and quality of services, they began opening new connectivity vectors to enterprise infrastructure and collecting data from machinery and processes and storing and analyzing it in the cloud. As digital transformation and cybersecurity become pillars that successful companies will build their futures on, the time has come to include CISOs and CIOs on company boards.
Ad fraud security needs to be taken as seriously as other forms of cybersecurity. CISOs must consider the implications of ad fraud security, which the HPE report said is the easiest and the most lucrative form of cybercrime-even above credit card fraud, bitcoin mining, and bank fraud.
CISOs at Stanford University, the University of Chicago Medicine, and The Ohio State University list phishing as the top security threat to students, professors, and researchers. The group also agreed zero trust is the best security approach but a hard sell in an academic setting.
FireEye on Tuesday announced that Sara Andrews, SVP and Chief Information Security Officer at PepsiCo, has been appointed to the FireEye board of directors. Prior to PepsiCo, Andrews served as Verizon's Chief Network Security Officer, where she led organizations responsible for the security of all Verizon wireline networks serving the company's residential, small business and enterprise customers.
CISOs are asked how secure their organization is against cyberattacks. "It's not, how secure are we, it's how ready are we to respond?" said Andrew Stanley, who was one of three CISO participants in the MIT Sloan CIO Digital Learning Series panel discussion Wednesday on "Keeping our organizations cyber-secure in the COVID-19 environment. How secure are we?".
Collaborate more effectively to improve security operations, even when teams are working remotely. The best days for security technologies and teams are when they aren't seen - when they're doing their jobs to secure the business, employees and customers, without impacting productivity and user experience.
Zoom announced that Jason Lee will join the company as its Chief Information Security Officer, effective June 29, 2020. Lee will lead Zoom's security team and report to Aparna Bawa, Zoom's Chief Operating Officer.
Zoom announced on Wednesday that it has appointed Jason Lee as its chief information security officer. Lee, who will take on the role of Zoom's CISO on June 29, has 20 years of experience in information security and operating mission-critical services.
As an alternative, virtual CISOs are becoming a viable option for many companies that do not have a full-time CISO on staff. This solution often delivers both economic and strategic advantages to businesses, and it's important to better understand the benefits and considerations of a virtual CISO. Is hiring a virtual CISO the right choice for you?