CISO Sam Curry and CMO Red Curry discuss the chaos and disruption of cyberwar and how attacks on critical infrastructure can tactically help attackers in combat, demoralize the general population and affect critical capabilities at just the right point in time.
Beyond the hype, AI is transforming cybersecurity by automating threat detection, streamlining incident response and predicting attacker behaviors. Organizations are increasingly deploying AI to protect their data, stay ahead of cybercriminals and build more resilient security systems.
In the latest weekly update, Joe Sullivan, CEO of Ukraine Friends, joins three editors at ISMG to discuss the challenges of being a CISO in 2024, growing threats from disinformation, vulnerabilities in MFA, AI's role in cybersecurity, and the obstacles to public-private information sharing.
In this videocast interview, Theo Zafirakos, CISO, Terranova Security, provides expert analysis of the "Securing Your Third-Party Supply Chain in 2024 Survey" results, including a deep dive into the core conclusions, including the core detriments of poor visibility of cybersecurity awareness, and how to better...
Welcome to "Cyber Fail," where our experts uncover fails so we can all strengthen our defenses. Today, we examine what happens when ransomware groups get careless, application developers' laissez-faire attitude toward vulnerabilities, and the security woes of a beleaguered crypto exchange.
The number of victims who opt to pay a ransom appears to have declined to a record low. During the last three months of 2023, an average of 29% of organizations hit by ransomware paid a ransom - a notable shift from what ransomware watchers saw in recent years.
The FBI announcing that it has forcibly removed "KV Botnet" Chinese nation-state malware from "hundreds" of poorly secured SOHO routers across America highlights the risk posed by the growing volume of outdated IoT devices. The FBI's fix is temporary, and we need a more permanent solution.
Security leaders focus on protection and detection, but the new priority is resilience. A resilience strategy should "get the real 'ground truth' of what has happened" in the attack, said Brian Dye, CEO of Corelight, in this episode of "Cybersecurity Insights."
Federal regulators have released guidance that spells out voluntary cybersecurity performance goals for the healthcare sector. The document is a first step in fleshing out the Biden administration's strategy to push hospitals and other healthcare entities to adopt a stronger cybersecurity posture.
As cyberthreats evolve, mobile network operators need offensive security to maintain resilience. Traditional security, such as firewalls and encryption, is not sufficient on its own. Offensive security is proactive; it mimics the strategies of real attackers to stay ahead of potential threats.
Generative AI, once a buzzword, is now the subject of a focused approach, according to attorney Edward Machin of Ropes & Gray LLP. Organizations are prioritizing specific issues around gen AI and establishing governance frameworks from the outset, Machin said.
Switzerland's federal government reports that multiple federal agencies' public-facing sites were temporarily disrupted by distributed denial-of-service attacks perpetrated by a self-proclaimed Russian hacktivist group "as a means of gaining media attention for their cause."
Mimecast, the cloud security firm specializing in email and cyber resilience, has appointed a new CEO after co-founder Peter Bauer served in the chief executive role since the company's inception in 2003. The leadership transition comes less than two years after the company went private.
Google Cloud's Mandiant says its account at X, formerly Twitter, was hijacked and used to link to cryptocurrency phishing pages after an attacker guessed the account password, apparently after Twitter last year deactivated the account's SMS-based two-factor authentication, leaving it unprotected.
Criminals have built highly successful business models by hacking into a wide range of organizations at will. University professor John Walker warned that the world is witnessing the unintended consequences of our collective inability to secure assets - kinetic threats to global stability.
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