Kayne McGladrey, CISSP and cybersecurity strategist at Ascent Solutions, advocates tight management over account privileges. It gives a granular view into your cloud team user accounts and privileges. It’s important that both teams understand and accept the need for controlling access up front.
“There’s not a one-size-fits-all approach to securing healthcare,” McGladrey said. “All organizations are doing the best they can, working hard against insurmountable odds. It’s important to respect and understand not where they are relative to the standard, but how they’ve improved over time.”
“McGladrey told us there is a grain of truth to the claim made in the Facebook post. He says on certain office landline phones, like corporate PBX systems, pressing a variation of those digits allows a call transfer to happen. But this does not affect cell phones or residential landlines.”
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.
In this session, a panel of experts will reflect on the various ways in which hackers have targeted the pandemic over the past 12 months, lifting a lid on the methods employed and outlining how businesses and users can best protect themselves from ongoing COVID-related attacks, scams and fraudulent activity.
Incident responses and recovery plans should be updated biannually. Kayne McGladrey, CISSP and cybersecurity strategist for Ascent Solutions said, “Effective incident response plans must cover preparation, detection and analysis, containment, eradication and recovery, and post-incident activity.”
You have a remarkable economic incentive for threat actors to do their job. Unlike a fire, threat actors innovate. There’s not some new way we’re going to have a fire. I guarantee you by the end of the week, we’re going to have a dozen new ways for threat actors to do their jobs.
McGladrey finds an increased need in cybersecurity as the pandemic has forced an increase in online resources. “Cybersecurity is a way of protecting our friends, family, and communities from financial losses and the loss of their privacy,” McGladrey said.
“Multi-factor authentication and passwordless technologies help to protect our digital identities and account credentials from theft or impersonation. This matters just as much to an individual using a hardware key to access their online bank as it does for a corporate employee using facial recognition to access a privileged administrative account.”
– Kayne McGladrey, IEEE Senior Member
“You can never get risk to zero, but you can mitigate risk to an acceptable level for that agency or that project,” McGladrey says. “You need to know what risks you can accept and what you have done to mitigate the potential damage associated with those risks.”
On February 17th, 2021 I’ll will be leading a tabletop exercise for the students of CISS 471 at Western Washington University. The tabletop exercise explores the ethical decisions associated with a ransomware attack at a fictional international organization.
“I hope that you want to create safe products that benefit individuals and society, that make life better.
That you want to reverse course, and can advocate for security in face of lean IT, DevOps, and less money and less time and less people.
IEEE code of ethics includes the phrase “disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment”.
Not as strong as language as the other code of ethics I’m bound to follow as a CISSP, to “protect society, the common good, necessary public trust and confidence, and the infrastructure”
Regardless of which code of ethics you’re following, we have responsibility to society to turn this around.”