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The Drive to Improve Cybersecurity Effectiveness: A Deeper Dive

As a refresher, what is the problem in a nutshell? Security risks now have board-level attention and CISOs struggle to present information about their security program in ways decision-makers can understand. They need a single solution that allows them to...

The Drive to Improve Cybersecurity Program Effectiveness

Interview by Maxfield Barker, Sr Marketing Coordinator, Kudelski Security Pressures facing security leaders continue to increase. More frequently industry leaders are focusing on the role of CISO as a risk management business executive, not solely a security leader....

Getting IoT Security Right: Lessons from Other Security-Conscious Markets

“IoT security” has long been a hot topic, with many articles and conferences insisting that the biggest single obstacle to growth in this industry is the lack of a comprehensive solution to secure IoT devices and ecosystems. But in many ways, the challenge of IoT...

The Age of IoT Is Here – Is Your Enterprise Secure?

Whether you were ready for it or not, your network is likely supporting hundreds if not thousands of connected endpoints at this very moment. When we talk about IoT, especially in the enterprise, we’re not just talking about connected refrigerators anymore. IoT is...

3 CISO Strategies on How to Answer the Board Question “How Do We Compare With Peers?”

Kudelski Security recently carried out research with its Client Advisory Council on CISO communication with the board of directors. The full report – complete with advice from seasoned security leaders – can be found here, but in this blog, I’m going to cover some...

Answering the Board’s Most Challenging Questions

In the first part of this series, I introduced the research Kudelski Security did on the subject of board communications and metrics in collaboration with our Client Advisory Council. The report is available in full here, but as with all meaty reports there’s a lot of...

Let Your People Speak at Security Conferences

Now that Black Hat USA and DEF CON are over, it allows for some reflection on conferences and speaking engagements. I’ve been involved in the conference review and submission process for quite some time. In that time, there have been multiple instances where someone...

Requirements to Action: Cyber Threat Intelligence

“Military intelligence” is no oxymoron. I'm not a career intelligence professional, but I have worked with some of the best intel organizations and operations in the world, including cyber operations and U.S. military intelligence. So, when I need to assess cyber...

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