Malware authors often take advantage of vulnerabilities in popular software. But, malware is also prone to bugs and coding errors, causing it to crash and serve as backdoors — any method by which authorized and unauthorized users can get around normal security measures and gain high-level user access — for white hat hackers. 

By being an organization of change, executives can not only diversify the talent within security, cybersecurity and IT teams, but they can improve the quality of their hires and set their enterprise organizations up to thrive in the future.

How often, when sending messages via a communication platform, are you thinking about your sensitive and private user information being exploited?

The second Voice of SecOps report from Deep Instinct revealed that the average time elapsed before a company responded to a cyberattack was 20.9 hours globally. The report surveyed 1,500 cybersecurity professionals about their top cyber concerns.

Calendly announced the appointment of Frank Russo as its first chief information security officer. Russo will oversee application security, infrastructure security, corporate security, privacy and compliance to protect customers, partners, employees, systems and assets.

Cory Simpson, former Senior Director at the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission and international expert on national security and emerging technology, has joined Resolute Strategic Services as an Executive Vice President.

In Security's latest Women in Security Edition of The Security Podcasts, Meredith Wilson talks about how enterprise security professionals can prepare their organizations for geopolitical risks. 

You want to begin implementing zero trust security at your organization, but where do you start? Let's walk through clear stages to build a zero trust framework that serves as the roadmap for your organization’s journey to better security and greater efficiency.  

Assessing cyber risk is essential to a business and is a key contributor to its overall reputational risk. Businesses need to take cyber risk into account in overall business strategy and planning. 

When employing a zero trust strategy at an enterprise, cybersecurity teams must consider instituting a least privilege policy — providing only strictly necessary access credentials to employees and revoking them when no longer needed.