What a few weeks it has been for Twitter, from the sacking of half its workforce, and the rushed release of a new feature that allows impersonation of people and brands, through to the unintentional lock out of some users with a certain multi-factor authentication (MFA) configuration enabled. Added to this, we have also seen major resignations of key individuals across the Information Security, Privacy and Compliance groups.
The ongoing growth in the adoption of cloud services poses escalating opportunities and risks in equal measure. The increased capacity and scalability of cloud environment lends itself to an accelerated pace and higher volume of software and application development than ever before. This trend brings into play a huge increase in the number of software components and dependencies that developers use in their code bases.
With the high rate of cyberattacks today, the role of a chief information security officer (CISO) has become more important — and much more visible. Businesses have been forced to invest in guarding their infrastructures, networks and sensitive data. This blog post will take a look at the basics of a CISO, as well as the CISO's main tasks and responsibilities.
To get a handle on increased cybersecurity threats, businesses need to know what’s at stake. If you don’t know what you’re defending and what the implications of a cyber event could be, then it’s hard to make cybersecurity decisions. For example, you could be spending time and money on cybersecurity awareness training while your biggest vulnerabilities stem from third-party exposure.
“You’ve inherited a fortune. To transfer the money, I need your bank account credentials.” If you have ever stumbled across something like this, you need to continue reading. According to Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, 25% of all data breaches consistently involve phishing. How does this happen? The fraudsters who are involved in phishing are some of the best content writers.
Every single blog you read on cybersecurity has at least one mention of the Zero Trust approach to cybersecurity (even this one 😊). Alas, don’t consider that Zero Trust is yet another hyped word that will soon vanish into thin air. Zero Trust, originally dubbed more than a decade ago, came up as a necessity to defend systems, networks, data and people against the increasing sophistication of attackers that rendered implicit trust a vulnerability.
