Live from HyperConnect 2023 | Drafting Compliance Ep. 21

The updates to Noberus are concerning but expected. “This is the new normal. Criminal groups will continue to reinvest part of their profits in research and development to drive the innovation cycle of development and distribution of their unwanted products,” says Kayne McGladrey, field CISO at Hyperproof.

In 2010, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published the report “A Human Capital Crisis in Cybersecurity,” which noted “there are about 1,000 security people in the US who have the specialized security skills to operate effectively in cyberspace. We need 10,000 to 30,000.” Twelve years later, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0 Workforce Development Agenda for the National Cyber Director observed that “in the United States, there are almost 600,000 open cybersecurity jobs across the private sector and federal, state, and local governments — a remarkable gap considering that the field currently employs just over a million professionals.” This is not an encouraging trend.

For some organizations CCPA will require a total overhaul on their privacy policies, while others might only need to make minor changes due to existing GDPR compliance. But as Kayne McGladrey, Chief Information Security Officer at Pensar Development, pointed out, there will certainly be another round of endless privacy disclosure emails.

“Few companies had a binder marked `global pandemic,’ but many had policies that called for annual DR testing that they didn’t enact,” said Kayne McGladrey, CISSP and cybersecurity expert. “Teams play how they train, but not having table-topped crisis communications, DR, or IR hurt their responses.”

In the cybersecurity realm, AI promises to automate tasks burdening human analysts, as noted by IEEE Senior Member Kayne McGladrey.

We talk about ‘data breaches’ because of regulatory and statutory definitions that focus on the disclosure of data. An organization’s security strategy should work with the end in mind, and focus heavily on denying threat actors access to those data with the highest regulatory, statutory, or contractual risks.