GDPR. NIST CSF. NY DFS. These acronym laws and standards can be maddening to navigate clearly for legal and compliance teams. Particularly when the threat landscape is ever evolving, and the threat actors - from outside and within - are unrelenting. This is why we have designed these sessions as an opportunity for...
Attackers are holding data for ransom because they know you can't do business without it.They're establishing a beachhead on the Internet of Things (IoT) because it's everywhere. They're weaponizing artificial intelligence (AI) because they intend to outsmart defenses.
Today, in fact, even the most...
Advanced threats have matured, they're taking advantage of multiple attack points in your systems and networks, they're hijacking users' credentials at a low and slow pace, and they're off your radar, but always ready to strike.
Threats have advanced in size and sophistication. Grab this infographic to start...
IT security teams have to protect their organizations from cyber attackers while also addressing internal and regulatory compliance requirements, such as ISO 27001, PCI DSS or GDPR. This is no small task. If you're relying on a basic log manager or rudimentary spreadsheets to store and search through logs, chances...
This month we spotlight the critical cybersecurity challenges facing healthcare sector organization. Explore why a focus on compliance-driven security risk programs can put entities at a great disadvantage in dealing with these challenges - and what's needed to implement a more war-minded approach to battle the...
Each new data breach that makes headlines causes companies to grow more and more concerned about cybersecurity. In response, businesses are upping their investments in cybersecurity with the hopes of shielding their systems from cybercriminals, protecting their data and keeping their names out of the news.
Read...
Over the past decade, businesses have become more global as they decentralize and
externalize non-core business functions, transitioning them to a network of suppliers,
factories, warehouses, transporters, and other value chain stakeholders. As a result, the
value chain has become even more complex and vulnerable...
November 1 ushers in a whole new era of breach notification requirements for Canada. What are the new standards, and how prepared are Canadian organizations? In this edition of Security Agenda, attorney Imran Ahmad of Miller Thomson LLP shares insights. Among them:
"In many ways, Canada had been playing catch-up to...
Attackers are increasing their frequency and volume of
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. Companies are
facing increased pressures to strengthen their security. Three
forces contributing to the pressure are:
Stronger, more sophisticated, and highly motivated attackers.
Larger attack...
How has the fraud landscape shifted in the U.S. since the introduction of EMV payment card chip technology?
Well, we all know here has been a reduction in card-present fraud and an increase in card-not-present crimes. But what does this mean to an individual retail CISO?
Shamoun Siddiqui, CISO at retailer Neiman...
Security is a journey not a destination. What's been deployed today may be found
to have a vulnerability tomorrow. Operating systems like Windows Server 2003 and
2008, which were once trusted building blocks for critical applications, are now
potential liabilities as time goes on and maintenance comes to an end and...
This monthly Security Agenda will highlight some of the most recent additions to our course library. This month's edition features the world's first CISO, Stephen Katz, discussing how the role of the modern CISO has evolved. Another key influencer, Gartner's Avivah Litan, discusses the lure of blockchain. This edition...
In the wake of digital transformation and several large, high-profile data breaches - and at a time where all the personal information is shared in the social network - traditional forms of digital identity verification are no longer valid.
Ninety-six percent of polled security leaders say that a frictionless...
If 2017 was the year of ransomware, 2018 went down as the year of cryptominers. Malicious cryptomining made up nearly a third of attacks in the first half of 2018 - a statistic held by ransomware in the last half of 2017.
This report examines this phenomenon - plus leading vulnerabilities published in 2018, newly...
Behavioral analytics have taken the fast lane from emerging tech to mature practice.
The key element that has made behavioral analytics move so fast and become something so important to security is that the focus has been not on the technology itself but on the value it provides the enterprise, notably when being...
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