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Cybersecurity leader Dan Lohrmann has been named Field Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Public Sector at Presidio.

The U.K.-based Transparency International Defence and Security Programme has released the findings of its Government Defence Integrity Index (GDI), which measures the risk of corruption in state defense and security.

Minnesota IT Services, the state cybersecurity and information technology agency, added cloud protection from Radware to better serve the Minnesota community. Read more about the solution in this case study.

Just as you wouldn’t recommend going to a basement during a fire nor running outside during a tornado, it is crucial to outline safety plans according to cyber disasters. Organizations can do this by implementing a business cybersecurity plan.

Disaster recovery experts can learn many lessons from the events of Hurricane Ida, including focusing on preparation, infrastructure and far-reaching effects of storms.

Organizations are moving to multi-cloud environments in droves, largely because the cloud is fast, agile and powerful. But is it secure? Inherently — no.  

Stephanie Jaros, Director of Research for the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) counter-insider threat program, talks to Security about the integration of the human and behavioral sciences into insider threat mitigation, as well as the criticality of the timeline when it comes to addressing such risks.

This year, on October 13th, the BlackBerry Security Summit 2021 took place — fully virtual. Keynote speakers included a range of BlackBerry organizational leaders across specialties, from Cybersecurity and Threat Detection to Product Management and Engineering.

This month’s leadership columnist Mike Gips proposes a satirical alternative to the need for leadership prevailing in security today, taking inspiration from essayist Jonathan Swift and his “Modest” proposal for addressing food scarcity, malnourishment, blight and overpopulation within Ireland in the 1700s.