In response to data privacy regulations and cybersecurity threats, organizations have to reexamine their data policies and rein in how data is accessed, processed, analyzed and shared.

William J. Walker has been hired as Vice President and Corporate Security Director at Allied Universal and will work to develop security strategies.

With the growing conversation around school safety, building security solutions within higher education requires detailed planning and routine assessments. 

Enhancing a digital risk management program starts with enterprise leadership. Cybersecurity leaders can get buy-in through strong incident response programs.

EMA's Secure Coding Practices survey of 129 software development professionals found that code scanning tools were less effective than developers.

Les McMonagle, a cybersecurity strategist, has been named Chief Strategy Officer at Mage, formerly MENTIS Inc.

 As you read through this year’s Security 500 Report and the advertisements surrounding it, you may not realize how much marketing’s mission is intertwined with security’s. Perhaps a digital marketing conference would be as valuable to you as attending a security industry event because the era of collecting, analyzing and interpreting information to identify risks and predict threats has arrived. Scorned for its use by three-letter government agencies, the results are clear. It works. The Predictive Revolution is the culmination of a three-stage evolution in risk and security practices.  

Last year the Security 500 Report research identified the Risk-Nado facing security organizations. It pointed out how global risk matrix, the role of security and the expected results were all expanding quickly. As a solution, we identified with the theme of the book (and movie) “Money Ball” and the application of quantifiable mathematics to predict how a player will do in a specific situation.

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