Tag: ciso
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How SMBs Can Proactively Strengthen Cybersecurity
Tags: access, attack, best-practice, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, identity, infrastructure, resilience, risk, service, tool, updateCyber attackers increasingly target SMBs because they are often the easiest path into larger supply chains. As cyberattacks are ramping up, specifically against Critical Infrastructure sectors, Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) are feeling the pressure and asking what they can do to better protect themselves in reasonable ways. Don’t Accept Failure SMBs often feel overwhelmed when…
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AI Has Given You Two New Problems And Identity Governance Is the Only Place They Meet
AI has quietly turned identity governance into the place where real power flows are decided”, who (or what) can move money, change code, or rewrite records. That shift has handed CISOs and CIOs two problems nobody really signed up for: AI inside the identity stack making access decisions, and AI acting as powerful identities across…
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Top 5 AI Access Risks for CISOs and How AI Governance Closes the Gaps
AI agents, copilots, or service accounts acting in ERP/SaaS systems are already making real decisions in your business, often with more access and less oversight than many human users. In many enterprises, non-human identities are often provisioned with broad permissions without explicit owners. For CISOs, the most urgent risks now sit where AI, identity, and……
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How Main Line Health Secures Devices With Microsegmentation
An identity-based microsegmentation deployment at Main Line Health in Philadelphia is helping to control how its roughly 60,000 devices communicate across the network in order to protect clinical operations and limit the impact of potential cyberattacks, said Main Line Health CISO Aaron Weismann. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/how-main-line-health-secures-devices-microsegmentation-i-5539
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Navigating Cybersecurity Obstacles in Rural Healthcare
Real and intense financial pressures on rural and small healthcare clinics mandate making difficult decisions on allocating funds to cybersecurity, said Greg Sieg, CISO at the University of Michigan Regional Health Network. The funding is just not there. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/navigating-cybersecurity-obstacles-in-rural-healthcare-i-5537
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When Liability Turns the CISO Into the Fall Guy
Rising Liability Risks Are Reshaping the CISO Role and Cybersecurity Leadership As regulators pursue accountability after major breaches, CISOs face growing personal liability. This is changing how security leaders report risk, weakening security culture and making the role less attractive to experienced practitioners. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/when-liability-turns-ciso-into-fall-guy-p-4065
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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Interview mit Andreas Gaetje, CISO bei Körber – KI im SOC: Effizienz steigt, Autonomie bleibt begrenzt
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/ki-agenten-im-soc-triage-schwachstellen-priorisieren-a-b55b412fb0c1c5a2bcc3aae96282bb54/
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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Building Trust in AI SOC Analyst Solutions: A UK and EU CISO Perspective
Tags: access, ai, best-practice, ciso, control, data, endpoint, framework, GDPR, governance, incident response, international, metric, nis-2, privacy, risk, socBy Brett Candon, VP International at Dropzone AI Trust has always been critical in security operations, but in the UK and Europe it carries significant regulatory weight. GDPR, NIS2 and similar related data”‘protection frameworks shape far more than legal risk, they directly influence architectural decisions, supplier selection, and how security data can be accessed, processed…
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‘Systemic Risk’ Stalks Healthcare Sector
For the U.S. healthcare ecosystem, the 2024 ransomware attack on Change Healthcare proved to be a supply-chain earthquake in showcasing critical third-party risk that entities now must carefully and urgently consider, said Erik Decker, CISO of Intermountain Health and a federal cyber adviser. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/systemic-risk-stalks-healthcare-sector-i-5535
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How to Scale Phishing Detection in Your SOC: 3 Steps for CISOs
Phishing has quietly turned into one of the hardest enterprise threats to expose early. Instead of crude lures and obvious payloads, modern campaigns rely on trusted infrastructure, legitimate-looking authentication flows, and encrypted traffic that conceals malicious behavior from traditional detection layers. For CISOs, the priority is now clear: scale phishing detection in a way that…
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The CISO’s Dilemma: How To Scale AI Securely
Your board wants AI. Your developers are building with it. Your budget committee is asking for an ROI timeline. But as CISO, you’re the one who has to answer when the inevitable question comes up: “How do we know this is secure?” If you’re like most security leaders, you’re caught between two impossible positions. Say…
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AWS expands Security Hub for multicloud security operations
Tags: access, api, ceo, ciso, cloud, cybersecurity, data, detection, endpoint, framework, google, identity, incident response, india, infrastructure, Internet, microsoft, monitoring, risk, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementCross-cloud security monitoring: While AWS has not provided technical details on how it will identify vulnerabilities outside its native environment, Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst at Greyhound Research, said multicloud visibility typically works by collecting signals from multiple security systems and translating them into a consistent format so they can be analysed together.A key enabler…
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CISOs on alert: Strengthening cyber resilience amid geopolitical tensions in the Middle East
As regional uncertainty rises, security leaders across the Gulf focus on resilience, faster incident response and deeper threat intelligence to protect critical systems and data First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366639768/CISOs-on-alert-Strengthening-cyber-resilience-amid-geopolitical-tensions-in-the-Middle-East
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Why Old Cybersecurity Models Are Breaking
By Keven Knight, CEO, Talion There is a quiet reckoning underway in cybersecurity, and most organisations are still pretending it’s not happening. The pressure on security leaders now exceeds what dashboards, frameworks and tooling can meaningfully contain. CISOs are being held accountable for outcomes shaped long before security is engaged. They are expected to prevent…
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Announcing the 2026 CSO Hall of Fame honorees
Tags: ai, ceo, cio, ciso, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, finance, google, group, infrastructure, international, jobs, resilience, risk, risk-management, sans, technologySelim Aissi, CEO & CSO, AGARobert S. Allen, Global CISO & Responsible AI Officer, GallagherMohit Chanana, CISO, Chevron Phillips ChemicalEdna Conway, Chief Operations & Risk Officer, TPO GroupJuan Gomez-Sanchez, VP, Cyber Resilience, McLane Company, Inc.Gary Harbison, Global CISO, Johnson & JohnsonMalcolm Harkins, Chief Security & Trust Officer, HiddenLayerBarry Hensley, CSO, Brown & BrownShaun Khalfan, SVP,…
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The OT security time bomb: Why legacy industrial systems are the biggest cyber risk nobody wants to fix
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, exploit, firewall, incident, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, ISO-27001, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, office, phishing, ransomware, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, siem, soc, stuxnet, supply-chain, tool, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayWhy everyone knows it’s burning, but nobody pulls the fire alarm: When I talk to OT managers, production leads or plant engineers, I rarely hear, “We didn’t know we had a problem.” Far more often, it’s, “We know it’s critical, but we can’t just shut it down.” This gap between awareness and action is the…
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Why access decisions are becoming the weakest link in identity security
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, automation, breach, business, ciso, control, credentials, data, finance, governance, group, iam, identity, least-privilege, login, okta, radius, risk, saas, service, technology, toolThe SSO fallacy: Why authentication is not a guarantee: I’m often asked by business and technology leaders, “If we have SSO enabled, why do we still need to worry about granular access controls?” The underlying assumption is that once a user is authenticated through a central, secure portal, the hard work is done.In practice, SSO…
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Going Passwordless in Healthcare: Overcoming Hurdles
Healthcare CISOs and their teams often contemplate the benefits of going passwordless in their organizations but face pushback from clinicians concerned that the new tech will slow down their access to critical patient care systems or disrupt their workflow. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/going-passwordless-in-healthcare-overcoming-hurdles-i-5528
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Survey: CISOs Continue to Struggle to Strike Right Risk Balance
A survey of 422 CISOs finds that while well over half (61%) believe their organizations are highly competent when it comes to cybersecurity and cyber resilience, less than half (45%) said their organization’s risk appetite is effectively aligned with cybersecurity risk management even though 57% claimed their communications channels with the line of business units..…
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Stop Chasing Threats, Start Containing Them
Why SOCs Must Move Beyond Alerts and Adopt Identity-Aware Defense Models Today Security operations centers are overwhelmed by alerts, fragmented identity data and tool sprawl. As identity-based attacks rise, CISOs are shifting toward identity-aware detection, automation and outcome-driven security operations to reduce risk and improve resilience across hybrid environments. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…