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Beyond Compliance: 5 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Improve Their Cybersecurity Posture

Recent high-profile ransomware attacks on hospitals have once again demonstrated the vital importance of securing healthcare IT infrastructures. When cyberattacks have the potential to cause morbidity and even loss of life, it’s absolutely imperative to understand and...

Building a Vendor Risk Management Program

Time to update your vendor risk management program? In this article, Graeme Payne, Kudelski Security’s practice leader for strategy, risk, and compliance, covers the four essential areas for consideration in building a robust VRM. You may have a grasp on your own...

Business Agility 2020: How to Achieve 360-Degree Security Visibility in the COVID Era

Among the chief concerns for security leaders today is a lack of visibility into risk and threats in the corporate ecosystem. COVID has only exacerbated the issue as organizations of all sizes and in all industries accelerate digital transformation plans in order to...

IT vs. OT Security: 6 Strategies You Can Adapt to Secure OT Environments

The convergence of IT/OT means OT environments are no longer “walled off” from the rest of the organization or even the rest of the world. Exposure to cybersecurity threats in these systems is growing, and a successful attack could be extremely damaging to production,...

Through an Assessor’s Lens: Discovering the Value of a NIST CSF Assessment

NIST CSF, a cybersecurity framework helping uncover unknown risks, set up new controls, break down internal silos, achieve cybersecurity maturity. As cybersecurity continues to mature and be at the top of everyone’s mind, a natural shift has occurred from focusing on...

5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Improve Office 365 Security

The Microsoft Office 365 productivity suite counts around 200 million active users per month, making it an incredibly attractive target for cybercriminals. In fact, 85% of security incidents investigated by the Kudelski Security Incident Response team in 2019 can be...

Evolution to Becoming a Modern Day CISO

Today’s top CISOs come from many different backgrounds: some have held more technical roles and decided to switch gears and learn the art of business, while others came from a strong compliance and policy background and were inspired by the machinations of security....

Beyond Security: Creating a Shared Vision for Flexible Cloud Governance

Cybersecurity organizations should partner with business units to create a shared and flexible cloud governance model that better enables responsible cloud adoption. Businesses cannot (and often will not) wait for security organizations to create inflexible governance...