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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...

Return-to-work: Best Practices for Implementing Proximity Tracing to Reduce Workplace Risk

Contract tracing is especially top of mind given the global challenges surrounding COVID-19, and, in some cases, it’s a requirement as organizations begin re-opening their doors to employees and customers. Analyzing location-based data from network-connected devices...

Recruiting the Future of Security: Finding Future CISOs

It is no secret that finding and recruiting strong Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) candidates is far from easy. Many CISOs typically stay in a role for a few years and subsequently are not able to dedicate adequate time to the development of junior leaders...

Beyond Crypto: Impacts of Blockchain Technology on Enterprise Security and Operations

The bubble for cryptocurrency may have burst in 2018, but the potential for the blockchain technology behind is just getting started, especially within the enterprise. The same benefits blockchain technology provides crypto—reliability, efficiency, transparency—can...