Video: Managing the Risks of the Internet of Things

“The monetization and weaponization of digital threats was comparably new when the critical infrastructure components that manage our modern world were being designed for reliability a decade or two ago,” said IEEE Senior Member Kayne McGladrey. McGladrey says that it’s time consuming to patch security flaws in many of these older components, some of which were designed to run uninterrupted for decades.

Schools also contend with risk born of constant user shifts in the student population. This puts schools in an unusual and unenviable position, Kayne McGladrey, field CISO at Hyperproof, said via email. “Being able to apply real-time policies based on user and device behavior via zero-trust networking becomes critical in this environment,” McGladrey said. Absent these tools, strategies and adequate staff, schools will remain a frequent target for cybercriminals. They could also, at the very least, give schools the confidence needed to refuse ransom demands.

“Make the security guardrails as invisible as possible to your end users and ensure that organizational change management is part of your planning for rollout,” says Kayne McGladrey, security architect, strategy and GRC practice lead at Ascent Solutions LLC. “This increases adoption of new collaboration technologies by ensuring that users are aware that the solution exists and understand that it’s easy to use. End users won’t use a solution specifically because it’s secure; rather, they’ll adopt it if it meets their needs easily and quickly.”

Episode 005 – “Don’t Forget the Cybersecurity!” A great chat with IEEE member, spokesperson and cybersecurity ninja, Kayne McGladrey @kaynemcgladrey all about the cybersecurity landscape and emerging technologies. He covers the ways cybersecurity is emerging too to address many cyber concerns providing better threat protection. We also discuss AI, Analytics, and Automation and the role they play in the cybersecurity landscape, and insights on the weird and wild world of Social Media and Cyber Awareness.

In this session, you’ll learn:

– how cyber criminals hack into smart devices, bank accounts, and cloud services

– two easy ways you can protect your family’s accounts

“IoT security remains one of the most challenging security vulnerabilities to businesses and consumers,” says Kayne McGladrey (@kaynemcgladrey), Director of Information Security Services at Integral Partners. “The Mirai and Reaper botnets are results of threat actors leveraging poor security controls on IoT devices, building attack infrastructure out of those devices, and using that stolen infrastructure to attack organizations. Organizations purchasing IoT/IIoT devices should treat them the same as any other endpoint device connecting to the corporate network.”