CTO Daniele Catteddu of the Cloud Security Alliance sees significant gaps in how the cybersecurity industry delivers education and training. For example, he says, while organizations are demanding Zero Trust services and guidance on implementation, the industry's offerings do not meet that demand.
The overlying problem in cybersecurity is scale and the complexity that comes from that scale, says Philip Reitinger, president and CEO of the Global Cyber Alliance. He says we need to simplify how we defend ourselves and "give individuals and companies products that meet them where they are."
Publicly traded companies will need to beef up their cybersecurity knowledge since the the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing rules and guidelines that would mandate more stringent oversight of cyber risk, says Roger Sels, former vice president of cyber solutions for BlackBerry.
Crum & Forster CISO Chris Holden says it's critical to see cybersecurity as a business enabler rather than a business inhibitor. He is taking on the perception that security is the "Department of No" and works hard to change the culture at his company.
Canada's Desjardins Group has reached an out-of-court settlement to resolve a data breach class action lawsuit. The breach, which the credit union group first disclosed in 2019, traced to a "malicious" insider who for 26 months had been selling personal details for 4.2 million active customers.
Issues with passwords are legion: too many to remember; inherent security weaknesses, and inconvenience, but while many look forward to the day when passwords are no more, for now they are ubiquitous because they are useful, and one of the best ways to enhance their security is through the use of a password manager.
Evolving to a zero trust architecture can be overwhelming for organizations, leaving many unsure of where they should even start. Cloudflare Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan urges CISOs to break the journey into bite-sized chunks that can be easily digested.
Interest in passwordless authentication architecture continues to grow among U.S. government agencies and departments as they embrace more modern approaches to identity and access management, says Sean Frazier, federal chief security officer at Okta.
Phishing is no longer restricted to just emails. As attackers broaden their arsenal, businesses today also need to be on the lookout for impersonation attempts via SMS text messages or voice calls, says Roger Grimes, a data-driven defense evangelist at KnowBe4.
SentinelOne has expanded its detection and response capabilities beyond the endpoint in recent years with the acquisition of data analytics tech developer Scalyr and identity and deception technology vendor Attivo Networks, says Nicholas Warner, president of security.
Throughout the pandemic, more organizations have embraced managed service providers, but the same economies of scale that attract customers also make MSPs an increasing target of attackers, says Candid Wüest, vice president of cyber protection research at Acronis.
In the five years since the release of a high-profile report listing dozens of critical cybersecurity recommendations for healthcare sector entities, experts say the industry has made some progress but still has much more work to do.
The proliferation of IoT devices and cloud has created a more vulnerable attack landscape, while technologies such as AI and deep learning can potentially thwart zero-day threats, says Itai Greenberg, chief strategy officer at Check Point Software Technologies.
In his spare time, ransomware expert Allan Liska recently became a certified sommelier. Branching out from his day job as principal intelligence analyst at Recorded Future, Liska says he's found numerous parallels between the deductive tasting process and threat intelligence.
As the Russia-Ukraine war continues, many commentators continue to highlight the lack of Russian cyberattacks. But The Chertoff Group's Chad Sweet says Russian cyberattacks remain fast and furious, although Moscow continues to publicly downplay both the attacks and their relative failure.
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