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TikTok and Lensa AI have sparked worldwide conversations on the future of social media and consumer data privacy. In this Help Net Security video, Rick McElroy, Principal Security Strategist at VMware, offers a perspective on these trends, including tips on how consumers and organizations can bolster their security practices to keep up with evolving technologies.
Compliance services are emerging as one of the hottest areas of cybersecurity. As large businesses adopt cybersecurity and compliance frameworks and agree to certain standards, they impose similar demands on their suppliers.
The research shows the CISO seat to be relatively industry-agnostic-with 84% of CISOs having a career history of working across multiple sectors-with today's CISOs expected to bring more breadth of leadership to their role as they move away from being technical experts. CISO profiles have changed dramatically-36% of CISOs analyzed with a graduate degree received a higher degree in business administration or management.
Researchers identified the top seven success factors that boost enterprise security resilience, focusing on cultural, environmental, and solution-based factors that businesses leverage to achieve security. Resilience has emerged as a top priority as 62 percent of organizations surveyed said they had experienced a security event that impacted business in the past two years.
When organizations are armed with intelligence that's timely, relevant, and actionable, they can bolster their own cyber defense measures and even prevent a ransomware attack from occurring in the first place. One of the most effective ways to stop a ransomware attack is to deny them access in the first place; without access, there is no attack.
BlueFort Security has announced the results of its 2022 CISO survey, which revealed that while CISOs are still experiencing challenges around visibility, intelligence and control, 47% are proactively focused on digital transformation and cloud migration. While 37% of CISOs still have their cybersecurity budget defined as a subset of their organization's general IT budget, 58% of CISOs expect world events to cause an increase in their cybersecurity budget over the next budget cycle.
In this Help Net Security video, Frank Kim, CISO-in-Residence at YL Ventures, discusses the growing role of CISOs in investment firms and how their role as advisors helps drive cybersecurity startups. Frank works closely with cybersecurity startup founders on ideation, product-market-fit, and value realization, on an in-house and regular basis.
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.