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Are You Doing All You Can to Protect Your Confidential Documents?

ByKayne

Kayne McGladrey (@kaynemcgladrey), director of information security services at Integral Partners, notes that, for several years, we’ve been hearing predictions about millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices with poor security joining networks and providing an easy attack vector for third parties.

“Printers are a culturally trusted technology because they’re perceived as not being new,” he says. “However, this doesn’t mean that modern organizations should not consider printers separately from a comprehensive strategy for the IoT.”

How Secure Is Your Home Wi-Fi?

ByKayne

When it comes to modern technology, everything is a compromise between convenience and security. Everyone wants fast access to the internet, which is why Wi-Fi is everywhere. But how secure is your home Wi-Fi router? What can you do to protect your network? Something you rarely hear these days is that as long as you follow a few common-sense and easily implemented best practices, you probably have very little to worry about.

Four Critical Cybersecurity Predictions for 2018

ByKayne

One fact will hold true in 2018, no matter what organizations do: cybercriminals will continue to reinvest their profits into building sustainable but illegal businesses. The underlying economics of cybercrime continue to give massive financial incentives to the attackers. Organizations should retaliate by adopting a “keeping up with the Joneses” mentality so that they’re always slightly more secure than organizations in the same market or vertical.

Why and how CISOs should work with lawyers to address regulatory burdens

ByKayne

As the regulatory burden increases, organizations and CISOs are having to take ownership of cyber risk, but it needs to be seen through the lens of business risk, according to Kayne McGladrey, field CISO with Hyperproof. Cyber risk is no longer simply a technology risk. “The problem is, organizationally, companies have separated those two and have their business risk register and their cyber risk register, but that’s not the way the world works anymore,” says McGladrey.

He believes the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Federal Trade Commission, FTC and other regulators in the US are trying to promote collaboration among business leaders because cyber risks are functionally business risks. McGladrey thinks most CISOs understand this, but that doesn’t necessarily extend to the other leaders in the business. “Can we just please have one risk conversation with people and plan that out appropriately,” he says.