She has been a CISO almost longer than there has been cybersecurity. And now Marene Allison, CISO at Johnson & Johnson, eyes retirement and her next adventures. She reflects on her career, her accomplishments and what she wishes for her successor and the next generation of cybersecurity leaders.
Recorded Future has signed an agreement with Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation to help protect the county's critical infrastructure against Russian physical and cyberattacks. The company can help detect novel strains of malware and command-and-control infrastructure run by the Russians.
Identity and access management company Okta revealed that its private GitHub repositories were accessed earlier in the month, resulting in the theft of its source code in its Workforce Identity Cloud code repositories. "No customer data was impacted," Okta says.
In a surprise move, Britain's Information Commissioner's Office recently named names - lots of names - on the data breach front. The ICO has published detailed information about breaches of personal data, complaints and the civil investigations. Attorney Edward Machin explains the implications.
Stop the presses: Britain's Guardian Media Group has been hit by a "serious IT incident," believed to be ransomware, that appears to have encrypted numerous systems. Experts say ransomware groups love to strike over the holidays, adding pressure on victims to pay a ransom quickly and quietly.
A banking Trojan is on a rampage thanks to its ability to mimic the appearance of more than 400 applications, including leading financial and crypto exchange applications, in 16 countries. Godfather is an upgraded version of the Anubis banking Trojan, reports cybersecurity firm Group-IB.
Bad hackers so often get portrayed as bombastic villains who can "hack the Gibson" while breathlessly exclaiming, "We're in!" Real-world "hack attacks" are typically much more mundane, including an alleged scheme enabling taxi drivers to jump to the head of the line at JFK Airport.
For many brands, especially large enterprises with a substantial online presence, it is important to be able to have eyes all over the internet in order to properly mitigate the effects of external elements on their brand’s reputation.
CISO Mike Manrod of Grand Canyon Education is seeing very clever evasion tactics employed by initial access brokers who gain "an initial foothold into a network or into a set of infrastructure and then sell that foothold or get that foothold for an affiliated partner organization."
The email attack vector. It may not earn much discussion, but the adversaries take full advantage of it with phishing, BEC and now email platform attacks. Mike Britton, CISO of Abnormal Security, talks about the latest threat trends and how to detect and defend against them.
Anything that can write a software code can also write malware. The latest AI technology can do it in seconds. Even worse, it could open the door to rapid innovation for hackers with little or no technical skills or help them overcome language barriers to writing the perfect phishing email.
A hacker selling a data set purportedly containing emails stripped from the FBI's InfraGard public-private cybersecurity forum obtained access by sending an application, which the bureau approved, reports independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs.
Ransomware operations have become expert at finding ways to make a victim pay. But experts say there are multiple steps healthcare sector entities in particular can take to better protect themselves and ensure that they can quickly restore systems and never have to consider paying a ransom.
To get zero trust strategy right, it is important to know what exactly to protect and decide what your crown jewels are. Three panelists discuss the various ways to do that and also offer their thoughts on whether zero trust is need for everything.
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