Kayne McGladrey – Hyperproof | CISO on the Street | Season 3

I’ll be speaking on WWJ-AM (Detroit, MI) today at 12:30 PM ET. Looking forward to discussing cyber security with Brian Larsen.

“It should be a strategic choice for a company to transfer certain business risks associated with cybersecurity threats, which exceed an acceptable level of risk, to an insurer,” says Kayne McGladrey, a senior member of the IEEE. “The expectation is that the insurer will help lessen the financial impact of significant cyber incidents or data breaches.”

However, this approach assumes companies maintain risk registers with clear definitions and measurement criteria for various risk categories, he notes. “It also presumes they use compliance operations to continuously assess the effectiveness of their current controls in reducing or mitigating these risks.”

The proverbial endpoint is everywhere. Consumers have more IoT and mobile devices than ever before. Industrial IoT is becoming ubiquitous and IoT malware is as common as cell phones. While conveniences are making their way into every facet of life, so are malicious software, social engineering attack and all manner of bad actors.

AI can also help improve retention rates by making entry-level cybersecurity jobs “less dull,” says Kayne McGladrey, CISO and CIO of Pensar and a member of the IEEE. “We get people out of school, and they are excited to be on the team. Then, on their first day, they’re handed a checklist: here’s the things you will do and the order in which you will do them.”

Presented by

Kayne McGladrey, Field CISO – Hyperproof | Charity Otwell, Director, Critical Security Controls – CIS

Dec 05 2023, 11:00am PST

CIS Critical Security controls are a prescriptive, prioritized, and simplified set of best practices that can strengthen your cybersecurity posture. The CIS Controls include foundational security measures that you can use to achieve essential hygiene and protect yourself against a cyber attack. Are you curious whether CIS Critical Security Controls is the right choice for your organization? Or are you currently using CIS Critical Security Controls and wondering how to maximize your experience? Join Charity Otwell, Director at Critical Security Controls – CIS, and Kayne McGladrey, Field CISO at Hyperproof, to discuss areas of focus for CIS controls and how they can best apply to organizational security.

Participants will:

– Learn the basic foundation of CIS Controls

– Understand how to assess applicability for their organization

– Learn how to adopt best practices around CIS Controls

– Learn the upcoming changes that will be made to the CIS Controls

Security expert Kayne McGladrey, who serves as director of security and IT at Pensar Development and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, said companies need to add extra steps to everything.

“The company could choose to add friction, whether it’s multi-factor authentication or an email link just to put a little additional scrutiny and raise the bar so it is materially more difficult for threat actors who have obtained someone’s credentials to be able to reuse those,” he said.

“The benefit of this strategy is that it applies universally. All of the automated attacks these days around credential stuffing and credential spraying do what the Yahoo hacker had done on a much larger scale. They get compromised credentials and test them across a whole bunch of websites using a distributed botnet.”