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COVID-19 Heroes

Boeing values information as the backbone to pandemic response

Taking a project management approach to its comprehensive COVID-19 pandemic response, Boeing’s Security & Fire Protection and Health Services business units placed collaboration, communication and actionable data at the forefront to make unified, informed decisions across the enterprise.

Maggie Shein

May 7, 2021

Boeing took a project management approach to its comprehensive, unified COVID-19 pandemic response co-led by the organization’s Security & Fire Protection and Health Services business units. Putting communication and actionable data at the forefront, the organization made informed decisions to minimize operational disruption and ensure the safety of its employees including site suspensions, COVID-19 specific protocols, PPE distribution and more.

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Cyber Tactics

Exploitation in the time of COVID

John McClurg

May 5, 2021

BlackBerry Limited released its 2021 BlackBerry Threat Report, detailing a sharp rise in cyberthreats facing organizations since the onset of COVID-19. The research shows a cybercrime industry which has not only adapted to new digital habits, but also become increasingly successful in finding and targeting vulnerable organizations.

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Leadership & Management

When good leaders are poor practitioners

Michael Gips

May 5, 2021

Here’s an embarrassing admission: I’m a lifelong Jets fan. If you need proof that the organization is considered a laughingstock, a 2019 article in Inc. magazine is titled, “Want to Be a Great Leader? Look to the New York Jets—and Then Do the Opposite.”

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Career Intelligence

Security search firms and your career

Jerry J. Brennan

Joanne R. Pollock

May 5, 2021

Security search firms are frequently contacted by job seekers who reach out to request the recruitment company assist them in finding a new job. Inquiries come from professionals and executives in various stages of their public or private sector careers.

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Ensuring the security of arts, museums and cultural heritage facilities during lockdown and beyond

A coordinated response effort from museums and cultural heritage institutions enable security directors to continue to ensure the security of their collections and facilities.

Maria Henriquez

May 5, 2021

To maintain a unified security and safety operation during closure, many museums and cultural heritage institutions have relied on tried-and-true security and risk management practices, and repurposed their time and energy to reassess, monitor and explore additional risk-mitigation measures to safely reopen and welcome the public back through their doors.

Why security has broken down—and what it means now (Part 1)

Andrew Peterson

May 5, 2021

Life used to be simpler for security teams. In the legacy world, they had a clear understanding of the environment they needed to protect—typically the standard LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PhP). Within this straightforward, relatively static infrastructure, they could carve out a network layer all for themselves to implement the security technologies of their choice. They also had a direct line to vendors to discuss the security controls that needed to be implemented. But in the age of DevOps and cloud, things just don’t work this way anymore. Four key changes have left security teams struggling to protect applications and organizations.

Post-pandemic organizational resilience lies within supply chain, information security

Tim Wren

May 4, 2021

In order to remain resilient and meet the emerging priorities around effective supplier management, improved business continuity planning, and increased community engagement, business leaders need to assess and benchmark their performance around three core areas of organizational resilience: operational resilience, supply chain resilience, and information resilience.

3 steps to promote a human-centric security awareness culture

Perry Carpenter

May 3, 2021

Human error contributes to almost 95% of security breaches. Most security approaches still fail at making a desired impact. Let’s analyze the two main reasons why businesses fail to develop a robust, human-centric security approach.

5 minutes with Brent Johnson - Hybrid is the new remote (workplace)

Maria Henriquez

April 30, 2021

While the flexibility granted to remote workers is game changing, employers have new concerns about the security of a hybrid setup. COVID-19 vaccinations are now within reach for a majority of Americans, meaning enterprises need to re-examine the remote office model many were forced to adopt over the past year. Experts anticipate that a hybrid work model with an equal number of workers in office and remote to be the new model of choice. If you’d like to learn how your enterprise can re-tool security strategies and ensure security for both remote and in-office employees, keep reading on for a conversation with cybersecurity expert Brent Johnson, CISO at Bluefin, on how leadership can address security challenges specific to a hybrid work model.

When it comes to cyber risk, company size doesn't matter

Padraic O'Reilly

April 30, 2021

Supply Chain Risk is more pertinent now that digital transformation initiatives are the norm. In a recent Ponemon study, 82% of respondents believe their organization experienced at least one data breach due to digital transformation. At the same time, 55% said with certainty that at least one of the three breaches was caused by a third party. Reporting on SCRM and gaining visibility into the cyber risk across third parties is critical to the security of both small and large organizations, especially in the digital age we live in.