Cybersecurity Leadership

Organizations are still inviting trouble by using legacy tactics and a multitude of legacy tools, coupled with insufficient planning of their cybersecurity programs.

The battle against Log4Shell is proceeding very slowly due to a confluence of factors. It remains buried in a number of assets, particularly legacy systems that are tougher to address. But it also continues to affect organizations via new devices.

Old perimeter-based defenses can throw up roadblocks to implementing a zero-trust strategy, but a measured, phased approach will see you through.

It’s not just individual behavioral inertia that makes it easy for bad actors. Organizational inertia is equally a problem, and it’s often the largest organizations that are most stuck in their ways.

Greg Day, Palo Alto Networks on the Changing Role of CISOs: "The path forward has to be to better automate the SOC to empower scale, but the challenge for many organizations is both having the time to shift processes and capabilities whilst still dealing with the current workload."

The IoT is growing at an unprecedented rate and market forecasts are ambitious. While IHS has suggested that there will be 30.

Is Mark Carney wrong to say that fintech presents a big systematic risk to the banking system? Story by Mark Holmes.

When you just keep filing it away to handle "someday," security debt typically rears its head when you are most vulnerable and can least afford to pay it.

Successful transformation in the cybersecurity space takes time because of the need to effectively embed secure practices across the culture of the firm.

Modern enterprises need to consider the consequences of increasing complexity as a result of maintaining so many layers of their tech stack. .

Shoddily developed and deployed projects can leave your enterprise vulnerable to attacks. Here's how to stop technical debt from sending your organization to the cyber-poorhouse.

Whenever a cyber attack occurs, the finger is usually pointed at a single compromised computer or a careless user unwittingly opening up his machine to hackers. Less is said of a big problem facing all organisations today – the complexity of IT systems. It is the underlying reason why hackers are let through and data is lost, sometimes without even the victims knowing

Wayne Sadin, chief technology and chief operating officer of Affinitas Life, tells CIO Journal that cybersecurity vigilance by the board could have avoided or decreased the panic linked to the WannaCry ransomeware attack. “Boards shouldn’t micromanage, but they should understand why patching may not be happening,” he says.