Cybersecurity Leadership

The Board needs to take an elevated view on cybersecurity, looking for cross-functional governance matters beyond the mere technical horizon

With security professionals facing long-term consequences from job pressure, it’s crucial to understand the root causes and explore solutions. What’s driving this stress, and how can business leaders step up to protect their employees’ well-being?

Why should SecOps, risk management, and strategy work together? Find out how a unified approach can fortify your digital defenses.

Many cybersecurity providers offer quick fixes for boosting resilience. But just investing in the right tools is not enough to keep you safe

Enterprises have been piling up on cybersecurity tools and products that have yet to be effectively operationalized to drive operational effectiveness and reduce risk.

Major entities continually stumble in the face of persistent cyber threats, despite having abundant resources at their disposal. It is particularly frustrating when the cybersecurity landscape is flooded with tools and solutions targeting specific threats...

MIT researchers created a generic framework that enables an engineer or scientist to evaluate the effectiveness of defense schemes that seek to limit a hacker’s ability to learn secret information by observing the behavior of a victim computer program.

There are so many security tools in place today that there’s a risk that security teams rely too much on their toolsets and not enough on their cybersecurity strategy.

Even as companies throw more money toward their cybersecurity budgets, businesses aren’t getting the value they expect from their investments.

Many things challenge how we practice cybersecurity these days. Digital transformation has brought significant adoption of new technology and business models, including cloud solutions, e-commerce platforms, smart devices, and a significantly more distributed workforce. These, in turn, have brought with them an increase in new threats, risks, and cybercrime.

The focus needs to shift from point-solutions towards clever automation and the decluttering of the security tools landscape

Taken together, these findings offer insight into the development of proactive cybersecurity solutions.

While security needs for software, applications and data remain, cybersecurity startups likely will battle a new fundraising reality in 2023.

The accumulation of security tools, products and solutions is creating a complex landscape, with which many organisations are struggling.

To fix retention and skills gaps, we need to encourage more women and minorities to build careers in cybersecurity.

Optimizing your security stack, and in turn, your budget, doesn’t have to be a guessing game.

Process failures are the root cause of most serious cybersecurity incidents. We need to treat security as a process issue, not try to solve it with a collection of tools.

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

Since most tools can only see one part of an attack, it’s difficult to create alerts that tell the whole story.

With threats growing in sophistication and frequency, enterprises have adopted a "more is better" mentality.

Compute and algorithms processing mountains of data is more efficacious than trying to hire cybersecurity professionals when there aren’t enough of them.

Security tool sprawl has made many teams so overwhelmed by security alerts that they can’t respond to them. Here’s how to deal with security tool overload. .

Despite the many claims that automation and AI will be the savior of security programs, human creativity and ingenuity are our greatest defenses.

Top API security tools can help hold the line against modern threats to the important and ubiquitous software development interfaces.