As the vaccine rollout continues and organizations are planning their hybrid work plans, they must ensure this return to a physical office, even if it’s partial, doesn’t open them up to cybersecurity threats. Here, Rick McElroy, Principal Cybersecurity Strategist at VMware, discusses what chief information security officers should keep in mind as we get closer to returning to physical offices.
Zero trust has become the latest buzzword in the security industry. It’s helpful to analyze the model from the attacker’s perspective to identify assumptions or actions that could provide a foothold for cybercriminals.
Mobile telecommunication company T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach that reportedly affects nearly all of its U.S. customers. Hackers gained access to the company’s systems and hacked servers and databases containing the personally identifiable information of approximately 100 million customers.
A recent International Data Corporation (IDC) survey found that more than one-third of organizations worldwide have experienced a ransomware attack or breach that blocked access to systems or data in the previous 12 months.
U.S. Secret Service agents and agency task force of partners have been named in multiple categories of awards as announced by the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators.
Dr. Tommy Gardner, Chief Technology Officer of HP Federal, believes a proactive mindset that bridges the digital divide, recruits top talent and implements the right policies is needed for the U.S. to achieve success and remain competitive on a global scale. Here, he discusses how a national strategy for critical technologies can shape the industries of the future as well as address national security and global challenges.
As a more encompassing and modern approach that extends not only governance, risk and compliance capabilities but also Integrated Risk Management and Enterprise Risk Management, digital risk management provides new tools and techniques risk professionals can interweave into operations and technology with unprecedented detail to strengthening the enterprise.
Over the course of these games, it’s become increasingly clear that the organizers did indeed exercise preventative measures and that despite the challenges and limitations of holding an Olympics during a pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics have been a real success story from a cybersecurity perspective. Organizers of all large-scale, televised sporting events—and indeed just all organizations in general—should look to this year’s games as a model to emulate.
The federal security grant, which totals just over $1 million will be used to bolster protection against cyber threats, upgrade the port’s wireless security network and complete a perimeter fencing project.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a new downloadable Cybersecurity Workforce Training Guide to assist future and current cybersecurity and information technology (IT) professionals chart a successful career path.
