AI in Cybersecurity: The Good and the Bad

“Effective defense in depth is not just shiny overlapping technical controls,” said Director of IT and Security Kayne McGladrey. “Rather, it’s the combination of culture, documented and tested processes, policies, and technical controls. For example, an organization with a policy of least privilege, a process for approving account privileges, and a process for auditing and harvesting unused privileges does not need multiple technical controls to implement the desired outcome.” It’s best to start with policy and then enact that in culture, where feasible.

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

“The future of work is not what we were collectively promised in the days before the pandemic. Despite being nearly two years into the global pandemic, organizations are still in the process of redefining how their offices should be used now and in the future, which has lead to a surge in the adoption of smart, digital technologies.”

“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.”

According to IEEE Member and Integral Partners Director of Information Security Services, Kayne McGladrey, healthcare sectors embody “Lean IT” as they are not in the cybersecurity line of business.

“Your incident response plan will be examined during discovery, period, point blank. Keep that in mind. It’s your policy and your plan that are going to be examined by our discovery, and make sure that you can actually do what that policy says and make sure you can do what the procedures say.”