Security Safeguard Expectations from our Vendors

Dateline: May 11, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. We all know that cybersecurity is our job, but as we move more and more of our work to apps, the cloud, and other external hosts, what cybersecurity can we expect these vendors to provide? Recently, The Conversation published an article from Indiana University Associate Professor … [Read more...]

Cybersecurity Insider Threats From Contingent Workers

Dateline: May 4, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. By now, if you have been following this blog, you are well aware that one of the biggest cybersecurity threats is the people inside your organization.  Experts predict that as our businesses grow, so does our contingent workforce; by 2020, the contingent workforce is expected to be … [Read more...]

CyberSecurity Tech Accord: New Thinking About Increasing Resiliance

Dateline: April 27, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. It's clear we need some new thinking to increase cyber resiliency in our society.  Recently tech execs from more than 30 leading companies made a public commitment, called the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, to improve cybersecurity.  The Accord website, cybertechaccord.org, stated … [Read more...]

Individuals Need to by Cyber Secure Too

Dateline: April 20, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Cybersecurity is all the talk at many levels of the organization.  But recent research suggests that this is a problem for you and me, as individuals, too.  An article in the MIT Technology Review, titled Hackers Stole $172 billion from People in 2017, shared findings from the … [Read more...]

Increasing Cybersecurity Requires Organizations to Collaborate

Dateline: April 13, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. It's becoming increasingly clear that one 'feature' of our business environment is making it possible for the cyber-criminals to be successful:  Our public and private organizations are hesitant to collaborate and work together.  Our competitive business ecosystem, regulations, … [Read more...]

GDPR as a Forcing Function for Things That Should Have Happened Already

Dateline: April 6, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week we saw new announcements of data breaches affecting millions of individuals.  Delta, Sears, and Under Armor all reported hacks that impact information privacy, highlighting the fact that for just about every company, the question is not "if" but "when" they are hacked.  … [Read more...]

No Silver Bullet to Cyber Security: It’s a Shared Responsibility

Dateline: March 30, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently we have focused on cybersecurity governance in this blog and this week, we share a thought about the broader executive responsibility for keeping our companies cybersafe.  Cybersecurity doesn't have a 'silver bullet' answer: keeping our organization secure requires a … [Read more...]

Cryptojacking Public Cloud Environments Becoming More Popular

Dateline: March 23, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Cybersecurity seems to be taking a new turn with the bad guys using our systems to mine their own cryptocurrencies, not just to hold us ransom or steal our data.  They are now stealing our cloud-based processing power and this is being called "cryptojacking".  Recently TechTarget … [Read more...]

Cybersecurity Governance a Priority for CISOs in 2018

Dateline: March 16, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. We have been focusing on cybersecurity management and leadership lately.  With increasing focus on breaches, attacks, and ransoms, it's clear that cybersecurity leaders are being stretched very thin.  Figuring out how to get ahead of these issues is paramount.  And it's more than … [Read more...]

People are the Hardest Part of Cybersecurity

Dateline: March 2, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Making a company cyber resilient is both a people and a technology problem.  Recently, TechTarget interviewed Alissa Johnson, the CISO of Xerox Corp.  In that interview, she was asked about the difficulty of managing these two critical components of cybersecurity. What is more … [Read more...]