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The New CISO Journey Includes Tried & True Old Steps
ByKayne
“It remains a very complicated role because you have to ultimately be able to speak, to three separate audiences: the business folks- who are interested in cost controls and also cost savings and cost improvements, and material effect of the business. The technology folks: who want to know that you’re doing the cyber right. And legal folks: who want to know that they’re adequately shielding the business from legal and regulatory risk.”
CyberWire Daily for January 13th, 2023
ByKayne
“Work from home is not necessarily new. I just think that for budgetary purposes many companies thought, “oh, that’ll be over soon.””
CYBER SECURITY FOR SMALL BUSINESSES AND CONSULTANTS
ByKayne
Do you feel like you are overwhelmed trying to run your business while defending against the latest cyber threats? Join Kayne McGladrey, speaker, author and Director of Information Security Services for Integral Partners (http://www.ipllc.co) for our upcoming presentation on taking a proactive, risk-oriented approach to cyber security for individual consultants and small businesses.
Kayne will discuss:
– Why you should manage risks based on user identity instead of chasing the latest threats
– How individual consultants can protect themselves
– A vendor-neutral reference architecture for cyber security at small businesses
We will have time for Q&A at the end of the presentation.
The future looks bright if Generation AI can address cybersecurity
ByKayne
There’s quite a lot of optimism in Generation AI, the IEEE study of millennial parent’s attitudes about artificial intelligence. The findings of the study are evolutionary, not revolutionary, as views towards artificial intelligence have become more refined over the years. However, the optimism shown in this study pre-supposes that we can move past our current cybersecurity issues.
Beyond the Headlines: The Many Forms of Modern-Day Cyber Disruption
ByKayne
Cybersecurity failures were definitely in the news in 2024, but the year’s most serious issue — the outage at security vendor CrowdStrike, which affected millions of Windows systems around the world — wasn’t the result of a intentional attack, notes Kayne McGladrey, Field CISO at Hyperproof and senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It was caused by a flaw in an update of the CrowdStrike software. Yet it cost a wide range of companies, including airlines, public transit, healthcare and financial services, an estimated $5.4 billion.
When to have the online-security talk with your kids
ByKayne
“This is a journey, not a one-and-done conversation,” he says. Make a habit of checking in with kids about what they saw on the internet that day, what they thought about it, and if they thought it was safe or not, and why. And you can’t outsource your parenting to a computer, so McGladrey cautions parents not to solely rely on controls and monitoring programs.