Tag: lessons-learned
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Zero lessons learned: Convicted scammer allegedly ran another athlete-focused phishing scam from federal prison
Kwamaine Jerell Ford allegedly impersonated an adult film star and tricked his high-profile victims into sharing their iCloud credentials and MFA codes under false pretenses. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/nba-nfl-athletes-social-engineering-scheme-apple-icloud-mfa/
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My Really Fun RSA 2026 Presentations!
Tags: ai, apt, automation, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, google, governance, guide, lessons-learned, malware, soc, strategy, threatThis blog is perhaps a little bit more like an ad, so if you don’t want to check the ads, consider not reading it. a very cyber image (Gemini) But this year at RSA 2026, I’m speaking on three topics: securing AI, using AI for SOC, and sharing lessons about how Google applies AI and other technologies…
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State-affiliated hackers set up for critical OT attacks that operators may not detect
Tags: access, antivirus, attack, conference, control, credentials, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, firmware, fortinet, group, hacker, incident response, infrastructure, Internet, Intruder, lessons-learned, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, password, penetration-testing, phishing, regulation, russia, service, spear-phishing, supply-chain, threat, tool, ukraine, update, vulnerabilityRussia’s OT attack teams expand beyond Ukraine: The Russia-linked pair Kamacite and Electrum, which Dragos has tracked since the mid-2010s and is responsible for the 2015 and 2016 cyberattacks that took down parts of Ukraine’s power grid, expanded operations into NATO territory in 2025 after years focused almost exclusively on Ukrainian targets.Kamacite, which serves as…
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State-affiliated hackers set up for critical OT attacks that operators may not detect
Tags: access, antivirus, attack, conference, control, credentials, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, firmware, fortinet, group, hacker, incident response, infrastructure, Internet, Intruder, lessons-learned, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, password, penetration-testing, phishing, regulation, russia, service, spear-phishing, supply-chain, threat, tool, ukraine, update, vulnerabilityRussia’s OT attack teams expand beyond Ukraine: The Russia-linked pair Kamacite and Electrum, which Dragos has tracked since the mid-2010s and is responsible for the 2015 and 2016 cyberattacks that took down parts of Ukraine’s power grid, expanded operations into NATO territory in 2025 after years focused almost exclusively on Ukrainian targets.Kamacite, which serves as…
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Finding a common language around risk
Tags: ceo, cio, ciso, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, framework, governance, guide, intelligence, lessons-learned, metric, monitoring, phishing, ransomware, risk, risk-management, service, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, updateBuilding one culture from three languages: The Organizational Risk Culture Standard (ORCS) offers something most frameworks miss: it treats culture as the foundation, not the afterthought. You can’t bolt culture onto existing processes and call it done. Culture is how people actually think about risk when no one is watching. It’s the shared beliefs that…
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Zero trust in practice: A deep technical dive into going fully passwordless in hybrid enterprise environments
Tags: access, attack, authentication, backup, breach, business, cloud, compliance, credentials, cybersecurity, data, endpoint, group, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, lessons-learned, network, password, phishing, phone, risk, service, technology, update, windows, zero-trustArchitecture decisions: Hybrid authentication flows and Windows Hello for Business: Once your prerequisites are in place, you face critical architectural decisions that will shape your deployment for years to come. The primary decision point is whether to use Windows Hello for Business, FIDO2 security keys or phone sign-in as your primary authentication mechanism.In my experience,…
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Incident response lessons learned the hard way
In this Help Net Security video, Ryan Seymour, VP, Consulting and Education at ConnectSecure, shares lessons from more than two decades in cybersecurity incident response. He … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/01/26/incident-response-failures-video/
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Root causes of security breaches remain elusive, jeopardizing resilience
Tags: attack, breach, business, ciso, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, framework, governance, incident response, intelligence, lessons-learned, monitoring, resilience, security-incident, service, siem, skills, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vpn, vulnerabilityTracing an attack path: Preparation is key, so businesses need to have dedicated tools and skills for digital forensics in place before an incident occurs through technologies such as security incident and event management (SIEM).SIEM devices are important because, for example, many gateway and VPN devices have a local storage that overwrites itself within hours.”If…
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How to turn threat intel into real security wins
Tags: access, api, attack, automation, awareness, business, ciso, cloud, communications, control, credentials, csf, data, data-breach, detection, dns, edr, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, framework, governance, guide, identity, intelligence, lessons-learned, mail, malware, mitre, nist, phishing, ransomware, resilience, risk, saas, siem, soar, soc, switch, tactics, theft, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityThe CISO mandate: Risk, efficiency, investment, response: Reduce operational risk and financial loss Intelligence-led detection and response aim to prevent or minimise data loss and business disruption. The downstream effects, smaller blast radii, fewer regulatory headaches and lower recovery bills, are what boards recognise. Maximise staff efficiency Manual validation and correlation drive alert fatigue. Automating…
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How to turn threat intel into real security wins
Tags: access, api, attack, automation, awareness, business, ciso, cloud, communications, control, credentials, csf, data, data-breach, detection, dns, edr, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, framework, governance, guide, identity, intelligence, lessons-learned, mail, malware, mitre, nist, phishing, ransomware, resilience, risk, saas, siem, soar, soc, switch, tactics, theft, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityThe CISO mandate: Risk, efficiency, investment, response: Reduce operational risk and financial loss Intelligence-led detection and response aim to prevent or minimise data loss and business disruption. The downstream effects, smaller blast radii, fewer regulatory headaches and lower recovery bills, are what boards recognise. Maximise staff efficiency Manual validation and correlation drive alert fatigue. Automating…
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10 Successful Marketplaces Built on Sharetribe: Lessons Learned
The marketplace revolution is here, and it’s transforming how we buy, sell, and share everything from vintage furniture… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/marketplaces-built-on-sharetribe/
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10 Successful Marketplaces Built on Sharetribe: Lessons Learned
The marketplace revolution is here, and it’s transforming how we buy, sell, and share everything from vintage furniture… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/marketplaces-built-on-sharetribe/
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AWS Outage Exposes Cloud Dependency, Concentration Risks
Forrester’s Brent Ellis and Dario Maisto on Lessons Learned for Large Enterprises. The cascading outage across the U.S. East Coast triggered this week by a domain name system failure in an AWS DynamoDB service demonstrates the risks of deep architectural dependencies and the challenges of building true multi-region cloud resilience, said Forrester’s Brent Ellis and…
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AWS Outage: Lessons Learned
What can we learn from the recent AWS outage, and how can we apply those lessons to our own infrastructure? What Happened? On October 20, 2025, AWS experienced a major disruption that rippled across the internet (and social media), affecting widely used services such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Atlassian. The issue originated not…
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AWS Outage: Lessons Learned
What can we learn from the recent AWS outage, and how can we apply those lessons to our own infrastructure? What Happened? On October 20, 2025, AWS experienced a major disruption that rippled across the internet (and social media), affecting widely used services such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Atlassian. The issue originated not…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Highlights Vulnerability Management Importance in Breach Analysis, as Orgs Are Urged To Patch Cisco Zero-Days
Tags: 2fa, access, advisory, api, attack, authentication, breach, business, cisa, cisco, cloud, control, credentials, crime, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, endpoint, exploit, fido, finance, firewall, framework, github, grc, guide, identity, incident response, infrastructure, Internet, ISO-27001, kev, law, lessons-learned, malicious, malware, mfa, mitigation, monitoring, network, open-source, phishing, privacy, ransomware, risk, saas, scam, security-incident, service, soc, software, supply-chain, tactics, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, worm, zero-dayCISA’s takeaways of an agency hack include a call for timely vulnerability patching. Plus, Cisco zero-day bugs are under attack, patch now. Meanwhile, the CSA issued a framework for SaaS security. And get the latest on the npm breach, the ransomware attack that disrupted air travel and more! Here are six things you need to…
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The CISO’s guide to rolling out generative AI at scale
Tags: access, ai, best-practice, chatgpt, ciso, communications, governance, guide, jobs, lessons-learned, network, privacy, risk, technology, tool, trainingSet the stage for success Before launch, host an organization-wide lunch and learn to introduce the platform, explain the rollout’s goals, and connect the initiative to real work. This is not a marketing event; it’s an operational alignment session. Bring the vendor in to walk through the platform, show what it does, and answer questions.…
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The CISO’s guide to rolling out generative AI at scale
Tags: access, ai, best-practice, chatgpt, ciso, communications, governance, guide, jobs, lessons-learned, network, privacy, risk, technology, tool, trainingSet the stage for success Before launch, host an organization-wide lunch and learn to introduce the platform, explain the rollout’s goals, and connect the initiative to real work. This is not a marketing event; it’s an operational alignment session. Bring the vendor in to walk through the platform, show what it does, and answer questions.…
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Stopping ransomware before it starts: Lessons from Cisco Talos Incident Response
Explore lessons learned from over two years of Talos IR pre-ransomware engagements, highlighting the key security measures, indicators and recommendations that have proven effective in stopping ransomware attacks before they begin. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/stopping-ransomware-before-it-starts/
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Stopping ransomware before it starts: Lessons from Cisco Talos Incident Response
Explore lessons learned from over two years of Talos IR pre-ransomware engagements, highlighting the key security measures, indicators and recommendations that have proven effective in stopping ransomware attacks before they begin. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/stopping-ransomware-before-it-starts/
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Women cyber leaders are on the rise, and paying it forward
Tags: ciso, cloud, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, finance, google, group, insurance, international, jobs, lessons-learned, network, office, privacy, risk, service, skills, software, strategy, supply-chain, technologyCarol Lee Hobson, CISO, PayNearMe PayNearMeStill, companies could be doing more to bring women into cybersecurity positions, says Lauren Winchester, vice president of cyber risk services at Travelers.”Women make up more than half of the population yet represent roughly 20% of the cybersecurity workforce. While the number of women in cyber has increased over the…
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Munich Reinsurance unites global security teams to boost resilience, cut costs
Tags: access, best-practice, business, cloud, conference, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, detection, edr, group, incident response, intelligence, jobs, lessons-learned, metric, network, resilience, risk, siem, skills, soc, strategy, tactics, threat, toolConsolidate functions into one incident response team, one threat intelligence team, and one threat-hunting team serving all Munich brands around the clock.Improve team capabilities by blending the strongest skills of each team into more mature, well-rounded functions.Reduce redundancies in responsibilities, tools, and processes to cut costs.To reach these goals, Munich deployed various tactics, including:Combining best…
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Credit Karma leader shares AI governance lessons learned
Start slow and break things — that’s how the head of data and AI at the fintech says enterprises should start building AI governance frameworks. First seen on techtarget.com Jump to article: www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366628735/Credit-Karma-leader-shares-AI-governance-lessons-learned
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6 Lessons Learned: Focusing Security Where Business Value Lives
The Evolution of Exposure ManagementMost security teams have a good sense of what’s critical in their environment. What’s harder to pin down is what’s business-critical. These are the assets that support the processes the business can’t function without. They’re not always the loudest or most exposed. They’re the ones tied to revenue, operations, and delivery.…
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6 Lessons Learned: Focusing Security Where Business Value Lives
The Evolution of Exposure ManagementMost security teams have a good sense of what’s critical in their environment. What’s harder to pin down is what’s business-critical. These are the assets that support the processes the business can’t function without. They’re not always the loudest or most exposed. They’re the ones tied to revenue, operations, and delivery.…
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6 Lessons Learned: Focusing Security Where Business Value Lives
The Evolution of Exposure ManagementMost security teams have a good sense of what’s critical in their environment. What’s harder to pin down is what’s business-critical. These are the assets that support the processes the business can’t function without. They’re not always the loudest or most exposed. They’re the ones tied to revenue, operations, and delivery.…
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How bright are AI agents? Not very, recent reports suggest
CSOs should ‘skip the fluff’: Meghu’s advice to CSOs: Stop reading the marketing and betting too much of your business on AI/LLM technology as it exists today. Start small and always have a human operator to guide it.”If you skip the fluff and get to the practical application, we have a new technology that could…
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Lessons Learned From McDonald’s Big AI Flub
McDonald’s hiring platform was using its original default credentials and inadvertently exposed information belonging to approximately 64 million job applicants. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/lessons-learned-mcdonalds-ai-flub
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1 Year Later: Lessons Learned From the CrowdStrike Outage
The ever-growing volume of vulnerabilities and threats requires organizations to remain resilient and anti-fragile, that is, to be able to proactively respond to issues and continuously improve. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/1-year-later-lessons-crowdstrike-outage