The Army of Things
By now, you’re probably well aware of the fate recently befallen on the Brian Krebs site KrebsOnSecurity.com. A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in excess of 620/Gbps caused such…
CISO Insights
Back to Vendor ListingsRansomware in Healthcare – Strategies for Protecting the Enterprise – Part Two
In this three-part series, Academic Healthcare CISO Mitch Parker shares his insights on ransomware, incident response and best practices for building a world-class prevention program. Read part one. As a…
Beyond Security and Privacy…A CISO’s Influence on the Ethical Use of Data
This article is based on the closing keynote remarks I delivered at the IQPC Cybersecurity in Higher Education Conference in March 2016. This is one higher education CISO’s viewpoint of…
The Human Element of Incident Response – Part One
There is an extraordinary amount of money and time spent on detection and response relative to cybersecurity, and much of this conversation is technology focused. In this series of articles,…
What Happens When the Virtual World Becomes Real?
I read an interesting article the other day about a talk at DEF CON – Thermostat Ransomware: A Glimpse into the Future of Crime in Cities It was about how the…
Ransomware in Healthcare – Strategies for Protecting the Enterprise – Part One
In this three-part series, Academic Health care CISO Mitch Parker shares his insights on ransomware, incident response and best practices for building a world class prevention program. Ransomware has been…
Will Corporate Security Models Move Toward the EDU Security Model?
No network is impenetrable, a reality that business executives and security professionals alike must accept. The traditional perimeter focused approach to cybersecurity has often failed to prevent intrusions, especially in…
Building Enterprise Security Through Trust and Visibility
Information is at the heart of today’s modern businesses, which is why now, more than ever, security professionals need to take a proactive approach to security to protect this valuable…
Making Insurance Part of Your Enterprise Risk Management Program – Part Three
In this series, Grace Crickette provides C-Level executives a comprehensive overview of cyber insurance, while addressing business impacts and offering best practices for implementing a risk-management strategy that includes a cyber-liability…
Protecting the Republican National Convention – My Reflections
As the 2016 Republican and Democratic National Conventions are about to begin, Security Current has challenged me to reflect on an assignment I was given when I was an IT…