Kyndall Elliott

CyberSaint Blog

Risk management has developed significantly from when it was first introduced. In the 16th and 17th centuries, notions of risk management evolved into something more akin to how we see it in the cybersecurity landscape today. The amount of risk for voyages would be weighed and calculated, and at the ... Read More

It’s common for companies to hoard their knowledge like a dragon with gold. Especially in competitive marketplaces, no one corporation wants to give their opponent an advantage over them or even letting them know there’s an advantage to be had. With Biden’s new executive order following the Colonial Pipeline ransomware ... Read More

With the recent Colonial Pipeline attack, risk and risk quantification is on everyone’s minds. However, quantifying risk is often not an easy thing. There are so many factors that go into determining and measuring risk that it makes it difficult to pin any one thing down, especially in large enterprises ... Read More

It can often feel like a cultural divide exists between security teams and the rest of the company. COVID-19 disrupted every day-to-day services for many enterprises, overloading already razor-thin budgets and personnel. Although many were already looking at a risk-first approach to cybersecurity, COVID-19 has taught them that it’s just ... Read More

The global pace at which technology is evolving and accelerating is incredible. People and companies are becoming less concerned with having “physical” assets or solutions. Tom Goodwin, Senior VP of Strategy and Innovation at Havas Media, said, “Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most ... Read More

Modern businesses have been migrating to the cloud in droves throughout the pandemic. It was a necessity in order to secure remote work during COVID-19, but as cloud service procurement increases, the risk increases as well. Industry critical services are now on a platform that may be more unsecured than ... Read More

According to the Council for Strategic and International Studies, an estimated $600 billion is lost to cyber criminals each year. In a study done by Juniper, it’s estimated that the amount lost to cyber attack will grow to $5 trillion by 2024.  ... Read More

As industries try to play catch-up as COVID-19 pushed everyone to remote work, technical debt is more of an issue than ever before. Technical debt is a term that describes the implied cost of additional work, or re-work, caused by choosing an easy solution over a better solution that may ... Read More

Remote work has become the new normal globally. COVID-19 has presented a lot of challenges, but enterprises were shown that a remote workplace was not only feasible but sustainable long term. This dramatic shift comes with its dangers, though. Suddenly having to support remote workers in previously unseen quantities came ... Read More

The quote “safety is about protecting humans from machines, while cybersecurity is about protecting machines from humans” has never been more accurate. As bad actors rise with the expansion of digital transformation across every industry, data and sensitive information are at peak vulnerability. In this day and age, there need ... Read More