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What Is the Current State of Cyber Resilience?
In March 2018 Accenture released a report, 2018 State of Cyber Resilience: Gaining Ground on the Cyber Attacker, which provided an updated …
When It Comes to Cyber Risks, Your Leadership Cannot Afford a Failure of Imagination
“Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.” — Ralph Gerard, American psychiatrist What happens to an organization …
Asking the Right Questions: Key Takeaways From the CAQ’s ‘Cybersecurity Risk Management Oversight’ Guidance
In April 2018, the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) released a document to help board directors fulfill their fiduciary duties regarding the …
As Cyber Risk Escalates, the C-Suite Must Take Action
This article was published on LinkedIn on April 19, 2018. You can read the original post …
Live Webinar | 2018 Risk Management: Aligning Security, Risk & Executive Teams
Governance , Vendor Risk Management Live Webinar | 2018 Risk Management: Aligning Security, Risk & Executive Teams Presented by BitSight …
Lessons From the Marsh ‘Global Cyber Risk Perception Survey’: Disconnects Persist Despite Increased Executive Involvement
“Most organizations now rank cybersecurity among their highest risk management priorities.” — Marsh’s “Global Cyber Risk …
HP’s Executive Forum Gives Insights Into Business, Products, And Just As Important, Company Culture
As a technology industry analyst, I attend many different kinds of events; some public, but many more private. I recently attended HP’s …
Interview: Sarah Jamie Lewis, Executive Director of the Open Privacy Research Society
This article is an interview with Sarah Jamie Lewis, Executive Director of the Open Privacy Research Society, a new privacy advocacy and …
10 Takeaways From the ISO 31000:2018 Risk Management Guidelines
“Dealing with risk is part of governance and leadership, and is fundamental to how an organization is managed at all levels.” — …
Executive Insights on the State of Performance
To gather insights on the current and future state of Performance Testing and Tuning, we talked to 14 executives involved in systems …
Five Steps for Investigating and Responding to Employee Fraud
Within hours, sometimes minutes, after an insider threat or employee fraud incident is discovered, executives are met with a flurry of …
Failure to Communicate Critical Data Risk to Business Leaders Can Have Perilous Consequences
Greater cybercriminal sophistication, regulations and customer privacy expectations are ushering in a new era of data security …
Putting the ‘I’ in CISO: Why the Security Leader Must Become an Influencer
One of the most important attributes of a chief information security officer (CISO) is the ability to govern by influence rather than …
What Executives Will Get Out of our DevSecOps Virtual Summit
Our economy is almost entirely digitized. Modern businesses rely on software to run their day-to-day operations, and, as such, innovation …
SEC Releases Updated Guidance For Cybersecurity Disclosure
“Today, the importance of data management and technology to business is analogous to the importance of electricity and other forms of …
Building Resilience Against Evolving Technology: An Interview With a Cyber Risk Expert
Emerging technologies are rife with opportunities for organizations of all shapes and sizes. Self-driving cars may be some ways into the …
The Expanding Role of the CISO: Seven Attributes of a Successful Security Leader
A recent Ponemon Institute report titled “The Evolving Role of CISOs and Their Importance to the Business” reaffirmed the notion that …
Is Your CISO a Jedi Warrior, an Admiral or a Diplomat?
As fans of “Star Wars,” we’ve watched a multitude of characters evolve on the screen and rise to the challenge posed by dark and …
Data Risk Management, Part 2: Who Is Ultimately Accountable When a Big Breach Happens?
This is the second installment in a three-part series about data risk management. For the full story, be sure to read part …
Building the Best Incident Response Team
Incident response is one of the final frontiers of security that the majority of businesses have yet to explore. Although most have the …
An Open Letter to Our Community On Congress’s Vote to Extend NSA Spying From EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn
Dear friends, Today, the United States Congress struck a significant blow against the basic human right to read, write, learn, and …
Increasing Security Preparedness and Awareness Among Board Members and Top Management
Corporate boards generally understand cyberthreats and preparedness at a high level and constantly look for indications of how …
Citrix: Selling to a Security Executive
There is no doubt that for any customer you speak with today, security is top of mind. I know; I live it every day as the newly named CSIO …
Four Key Lessons From NACD’s ‘2018 Governance Outlook’ About Managing Cyber Risks
In mid-December 2017, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) published its “2018 Governance Outlook: Projections on …
Where the CISO Should Sit on the Security Org Chart and Why It Matters
In early 2016, boards were starting to take cybersecurity more seriously and, in the process, increasing their interactions with chief …
PepsiCo’s Jody Davids’ Extraordinary Rise From Executive Assistant To Board Level CIO
Jody Davids has been the chief information officer of four major companies: Cardinal Health, Best Buy, Agrium, and, since April of 2016, of …
Former Citrix Executive Joins SoftNAS as Vice President of Marketing
Cloud Data Platform Business Expands Team with Marketing Leader; SoftNAS moves headquarters to Park Laureate in Houston SoftNAS®, Inc., …
Five New Year’s Resolutions to Help CISOs Improve Enterprise Security in 2018
If you survived 2017 — a year full of data breaches, ransomware, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and a multitude of other …
Long Road Ahead or Unbridgeable Chasm? Lessons From the EY ‘Global Information Security Survey’
If it appears to you that 2017 was a dismal year for cybersecurity, join the club: According to the latest edition of EY’s “Global …