Cybersecurity professionals are driven to make the world a safer place. But this often comes at a personal cost, as CISO Don Gibson discovered. At the age of 44, the price of stress and long hours was unexpected heart surgery. “How you adapt to change can really help you going forward," he said.
Hacks on healthcare sector entities reached record levels in 2023 in terms of data breaches. But the impact of hacks on hospital chains, doctors' offices and other medical providers - or their critical vendors - goes much deeper than the exposure of millions of health records.
Explore the future of enterprise security as analysts foresee a shift to passwordless authentication, addressing the issues of cost, user experience, and vulnerability, in a concise video.
Ground control to the space industry: Take your static cybersecurity practices and upgrade them to a dynamic model. So says NASA's first-ever security best practices guide for space communications, part of an effort to make mission security requirements more accessible.
A Russian man accused by the U.S. of trafficking in a hacked database of online credentials will apparently evade American courts after the Russian government said it had succeeded in extraditing him. Russian prosecutors say Nikita Kislitsin faces charges related to an October 2022 hacking incident.
Senior analyst Alla Valente discusses Forrester's "Predictions 2024: Cybersecurity, Risk and Privacy" report, which outlines five predictions to help security, risk and privacy leaders prepare for the coming year. She also discusses the significance of governance and accountability in the use of AI.
Truveta is a collaborative effort whose members include dozens of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S. It helps life sciences companies apply AI to a trove of electronic health records data to develop new treatments and study their effectiveness, said the organization's CEO, Terry Myerson.
Marc Lueck, EMEA CISO at Zscaler, describes generative AI as the bridge between traditional AI and machine learning. He said it offers the ability to engage in humanlike conversations while tapping into vast data repositories and is both a powerful defense mechanism and a potential vulnerability.
All has not been quiet on the malicious cybersecurity front this year, thanks to constant cybercrime innovation, cyberattacks and cyberespionage, and malicious or inadvertent data breaches. Here are 12 notable incidents and trends of 2023 and their implications for the bigger cybersecurity picture.
Hackers carried out a double-extortion ransomware attack on medical software company ESO Solutions, exposing personal details and healthcare information of 2.7 million U.S. patients and encrypting some of the company's systems. Double-extortion attacks also exfiltrate data.
Scammers are stealing hotels' log-in credentials for online travel site Booking.com and targeting their customers, experts warn. In many cases, attackers use Booking's own messaging system to contact customers and request their payment card data, they say.
A new GAO report says federal agencies fail to provide health are providers and patients with enough resources and information to address critical vulnerabilities in a majority of medical devices in the U.S. that can result in "potential catastrophic impact to hospital operations and patient care."
In the latest weekly update, two analysts at Forrester - Allie Mellen and Jeff Pollard - join three editors at ISMG to discuss important cybersecurity issues, including CISOs' primary inquiries about AI/ML, how organizations can thwart data poisoning attacks, and practical use cases for AI.
British prosecutors have sentenced a teenager behind high-profile hacks while he was part of the now-inactive Lapsus$ hacking group. Arion Kurtaj, from Oxford, will remain in medical care after doctors declared he was unfit to stand for trial owing to severe autism.
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