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“Organizations should invest in a combination of asset management, endpoint detection, data loss prevention, cloud-based managed detection and response, and patch or vulnerability management,” says Kayne Mcgladrey (@kaynemcgladrey), Field CISO at Hyperproof and Senior IEEE Member. “Of those, asset management is the starting point, as an organization should have visibility into the devices accessing corporate data and be able to select and apply appropriate controls to those devices. Those controls then may include endpoint protection or data loss protection, for example, if exfiltration of sensitive corporate data may result in compliance violations.” 

Sharing information about threats can help boost overall cybersecurity by alerting others to those risks, as well as providing successful ways to counteract them, said Kayne McGladrey, national cybersecurity expert, director of security and information technology for Pensar Development, and member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

“They could actually see a reduction in those threats that are commodity threats — threats that are crimes of opportunity [vs. targeted attacks],” he said.

“Organizational collaboration is difficult when different data protection tools perform similar functions, as it may be unclear how to allow a collaborator to access or modify data. Something as simple as data classification and labeling becomes overly complex and a nuisance to end users if they need to set a label in multiple locations, particularly when the labels are not consistent across tools.”

Kayne and Tom talk about personnel security, background checks, what FedRAMP requires for onboarding and terminating employees as well as a host of tips and tricks for meeting this control family. Of course, they try a new beer and maybe, just maybe, agree on the score.

Kayne McGladrey, an advisory board member for the Technology Alliance Group NW and cybersecurity strategist for the firm Ascent Solutions, tells ISMG, “These [various legislative efforts] all stem from the issue that there is no single source of truth on the volume or scope of cyberattacks, which has led to the perception that it is difficult to apply commensurate public and private policy responses.”