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

There are three best practices that security professionals supporting schools can follow to help make the school year uneventful in their district: defending user identities, patching endpoints, and running quarterly tabletop exercises.

Cloud computing will continue to grow despite the frequency of breaches due to a lack of administrative controls and unintentional configuration errors. When an administrator had access to an on-premises server, they could only administer that server; a “cloud administrator” can administer all the assets in a given cloud instance, including backing up and exfiltrating entire servers. This is like the unintentional configuration errors that have plagued so many Amazon S3 buckets in 2019, where organizations have stored PII in S3 in a default configuration, and then those data have been accessed by security researchers.

At issue is whether the incident led to significant risk to the organization and its shareholders. If so, it’s defined as material and must be reported within four days of this determination being made (not its initial discovery). “Materiality extends beyond quantitative losses, such as direct financial impacts, to include qualitative aspects, like reputational damage and operational disruptions,” he says. McGladrey says the SEC’s materiality guidance underscores the importance of investor protection in relation to cybersecurity events and, if in doubt, the safest path is reporting. “If a disclosure is uncertain, erring on the side of transparency safeguards shareholders,” he tells CSO.

We thought it would be a great idea to get Kayne’s take on some key issues facing the world from a cybersecurity perspective, and also learn more about his journey. We get lots of questions from readers about how to break into the cybersecurity industry, how to get their foot in the door, and all manner of other questions relating to getting started. This is why we think it’s so important to share the experiences of those in the industry.

A key ingredient for success in cybersecurity is a passion for all things tech and security. Needless to say, we were also impressed to learn that Kayne has over fifty smart devices and a handful of robots! Let’s take a look at what Kayne had to say:

The big picture: AI model operators don’t have a good way of reigning in these malicious use cases, Kayne McGladrey, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), told Axios. Allowing LLMs to digest and train on CVE data can help defenders synthesize the wave of threat alerts coming their way each day. Operators have only two real choices in this type of situation: allow the models to train on security vulnerability data or completely block them from accessing vulnerability lists, he added. “It’s going to be a feature of the landscape because it is a dual-use technology at the end of the day,” McGladrey said.