Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Cybersecurity (November 2019)

The proverbial endpoint is everywhere. Consumers have more IoT and mobile devices than ever before. Industrial IoT is becoming ubiquitous and IoT malware is as common as cell phones. While conveniences are making their way into every facet of life, so are malicious software, social engineering attack and all manner of bad actors.

Cultural change takes time and is a journey, not a destination. Senior leaders, managers, and individual contributors all have a role and responsibility in ensuring that manufacturing companies stay safe from cybersecurity risks. Elevating cyber risks to the same level as safety risks will help companies to comprehensively understand and manage their risks now and in the coming years.

Are you a founder, CEO, leader, or salesperson in the cybersecurity industry? Are you looking to grow your sales and revenue faster? In this episode of the Cybersecurity Startup Revenue Podcast, we dive into one way to avoid having your deals stalled out.

👉 What risks can derail your software development and revenue growth?

👉 How can you optimize the role of a field CISO in your organization?

👉 Why is building trust and managing risk essential for successful sales cycles?

Our guest, Kayne McGladrey, a Field CISO at Hyperproof.io, brings his expertise and unique perspective as a CISO to discuss these critical topics and more. He shares his insights on the challenges faced by cybersecurity startups and how organizations can effectively communicate and address risk.

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The regulatory environment for health-care organizations places a high value on personal health information, writes Kayne McGladrey of Integral Partners. However, the dark web market value of PHI has cratered, according to cybersecurity firm Flashpoint. A PHI record that sold for an average of $75 to $100 in 2015 would net $0.50 to $1 in 2017, he writes.

“Choosing the right GRC platform is hard, but knowing what’s most important for you and your organization is key to choosing the right one. Ultimately, what matters most is that you find a platform with all the features listed above that will enable your team to maintain compliance without the headache of manual processes or inflexible legacy solutions.”

Over the past year and a half, school administrators, teachers, and IT support staff and students themselves have been working in a complex threat environment. The pandemic and major increase in cyberattacks has resulted in closures for both in-person and online schools. While this will only continue into 2022, it will be importance for security and IT professionals that support schools to align their policies, procedures, and technical controls to a cybersecurity framework that fits the needs of their organization, such as the recently announced K-12 resources announced jointly by the FBI and CISA. Using a formal framework can help schools effectively identify and mitigate gaps in school security postures without substantial budget increases. Schools should also consider a quarterly exercise to re-audit their password stores, as the number of compromised passwords will only continue to increase in the year ahead. A password that was secure three months ago may have appeared in a data breach (especially since students and adults tend to use the same passwords for multiple accounts) and may no longer be a secure option. Although it’s hard to predict what’s to come for educational institutions moving forward and future of remote and hybrid learning is going to be uncertain, education professionals should expect to see threat actors continue to target schools that have not taken a proactive approach to cybersecurity and deployed the appropriate defenses.