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COVID-19 Heroes

Broad Institute Security Department supports COVID-19 testing facility

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has served as one of the largest processors of COVID-19 tests in the country. The Security Team has supported these efforts in myriad ways, helping maintain business continuity and ensure campus safety, visitor management, and compliance with COVID-19 safety protocols.

Maria Henriquez

August 6, 2021

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has served as one of the largest processors of COVID-19 tests in the country. The Security Team has supported these efforts in myriad ways, helping maintain business continuity and ensure campus safety, visitor management, and compliance with COVID-19 safety protocols.

COVID-19 Heroes

Associated Grocers of New England’s Risk Management and Loss Prevention teams step up amid pandemic

While enterprises around the globe were shutting down and moving to remote work, frontline food suppliers, transport companies and grocery stores didn’t have that ability. AGNE needed to continue to distribute product to independent grocer members as well as its own stores throughout New England and New York, while also dealing with increased freight and procurement demands into the facility.

Maggie Shein

August 6, 2021

As a critical business, Associated Grocers of New England needed to continue distribution to independent grocer members as well as its own stores throughout New England and New York, while also managing increased freight and procurement demands into the facility during the beginning of the pandemic. The organization’s Risk Management and Loss Prevention teams stepped up to help.

Women in Security 2021 Edition

5 minutes with Kimber Goerres - Establishing technical security requirements

Maria Henriquez

August 6, 2021

Security spoke to Kimber Goerres, Security Systems Integration & Project Management Lead at Sony Electronics, who has served diligently in her role, ensuring the company’s error or down rate is nominal and establishing the technical security requirements for Sony offices globally. Here, Goerres speaks about her role, establishing technical security requirements and ensuring improved security levels through risk, vulnerability and audit assessments.

Passwords aren’t enough: Why businesses need to build more comprehensive security

Mario Dusaj

August 6, 2021

In the past, passwords were the key to accessing systems and platforms, and they held much value as a security measure for businesses. But over time, the threat landscape has evolved, and weaknesses have been discovered in standard encryption methods that have diminished the password’s value.

Meron Behar joins Transmit Security as CISO

August 5, 2021

Transmit Security announced it has named Meron Behar as its new Chief Information Security Officer.

Overcoming security metrics challenges to measure what matters

Noah Simon

August 5, 2021

While many organizations may realize they can’t entirely eliminate cyber risk, they still need to quantify their security efforts and set thresholds to show whether they’re trending positively or introducing more risk. The right metrics help to shed light on a company’s current security posture and, more importantly, where it might have gaps, shortcomings, or areas to prioritize for future improvement.

Why security leaders are concerned about the SaaS sprawl, and how to get a grip on it

Lior Yaari

August 5, 2021

Software as a service (SaaS) has taken over, and the average enterprise now uses hundreds of unique SaaS applications to accelerate their digital transformation and business velocity. However, while SaaS has fulfilled its growth-enabling potential, most organizations have lost their grip on its consumption and use. IT and security teams can no longer depend on network or endpoint controls to govern application access.

DevOps tools proliferation – A whole new world of vulnerabilities

Eran Orzel

August 5, 2021

With more than a hundred continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools to choose from and hundreds of plugins and services connected to those tools, no wonder security teams have a hard time grasping the amount of information and security requirements of these environments.

MoonPay appoints Nils Puhlmann as CRO and CSO

Nils Puhlmann assumes Chief Risk and Security Officer role at MoonPay

August 4, 2021

MoonPay appointed Nils Puhlmann as its Chief Risk and Security Officer. He previously held roles such as Chief Technology Officer of Endgame, and also held the position of Chief Security Officer at Zynga, Qualys and Electronic Arts.

COVID-19 Heroes

Yale University’s Public Safety Systems and Services team uses existing tech for robust COVID-19 response

By reimagining access control and use of existing system data, Yale’s Public Safety Systems and Services team was able to centralize and organize security technology operations, while providing further value across the entire university.

Maggie Shein

August 4, 2021

Once Yale University closed due to the pandemic in March 2020, the Public Safety Systems and Services team quickly realized that they could change the way access control was used and programmed across campus, while also streamlining security and operations.