Weekly News Roundup November 30 – December 4, 2020
Posted on Dec 4, 2020by Kacy Zurkus We are mere weeks away from the close of 2020, and not a day goes by without me hearing someone say they can’t wait for this year to be over. Certainly, the year has posed challenges for many of us personally and professionally ... Read More
Cyber-Learning in Today’s World
Posted on Dec 3, 2020by Armaan Kapoor The cultivation of cyber-hygiene is invaluable in preparing young children for the cyber-unknown. It can decrease the effectiveness of many cyberattacks. Unfortunately, the quality of education—and cyber-education, more specifically—is not entirely consistent around the world. Yet,in our interconnected, digital world, cybersecurity education is ... Read More
Strategies for Dealing with Fileless Malware Attacks
Posted on Dec 2, 2020by Guy Propper Cybercriminals are increasingly becoming more adept at finding new and sophisticated ways to avoid being detected. Apart from the rise in ransomware attacks, there has also been an increase in the number of fileless attacks, which pose a threat to organizations and a ... Read More
Ben’s Book of the Month Review of: “Medical Device Cybersecurity for Engineers and Manufacturers”
Posted on Nov 30, 2020by Ben Rothke Some years ago, I was working for a professional services firm. One of our clients was an international medical device company working on implantable devices for cardiac rhythm management. We were going to perform a security assessment for their remote monitoring service, which ... Read More
Weekly News Roundup November 16-20, 2020
Posted on Nov 20, 2020by Kacy Zurkus Well, dear readers, it’s likely none of us were surprised by what was probably the biggest industry headline of this week. Last Thursday, CISA Director Chris Krebs reportedly told Reuters he expected to be fired. Indeed, Krebs was dismissed on Tuesday, “after publicly ... Read More
The Importance of Security Strategy Can’t Be Overstated
Posted on Nov 19, 2020by Robert Ackerman Jr. Lots of things about cybersecurity are important, but none is as crucial as one specific parameter: security strategy. Everything flows from this. If this gets short shrift, anything and everything can collapse like a house of cards. So let’s take a good ... Read More
Going Beyond Insider Threats
Posted on Nov 17, 2020by Isaac Kohen How to Balance Post-COVID Cybersecurity with Productivity Data for Remote Employees For many organizations, the past several years have been defined by an unending pursuit of data privacy and cybersecurity. Prompted by a daunting threat landscape, new regulatory standards and increasingly onerous ... Read More
Weekly News Roundup November 9-13, 2020
Posted on Nov 13, 2020by Kacy Zurkus Earlier this week, AP reported there had been false claims about prominent Democrats wielding their influence on the tech firm, Dominion Voting Systems. In response to misinformation claiming, “A bad actor could change election results without detection,” CISA director Chris Krebs issued a ... Read More
The Queen’s Gambit and the Science of Hacking
Posted on Nov 12, 2020by Ira Winkler As I watched the new Netflix show, The Queen’s Gambit, it brought back a great deal of memories as to why I was always good at chess, but never great. I won school championships, but the closest I came to greatness was beating ... Read More
RSA Conference 2021 Goes Fully Virtual
Posted on Nov 10, 2020by Linda Gray Martin To the RSAC Community, When we announced that RSA Conference was moving from February to May 2021, we shared that public health and safety were our top priorities. While we were optimistic that moving RSA Conference 2021 to a later date would ... Read More
