The locus of control has been slipping away from IT teams (and by default Security teams), and this "challenge" to IT governance has accelerated post-covid with a more distributed workforce. The fact that IT governance is eroding as easily and quickly should tell IT and infosec teams that they need to ditch their legacy models of service delivery a...
In the leadership and communications segment, Arming CISOs With the Skills to Combat Disinformation, Is the 'Great Resignation' Impacting Cybersecurity?, Ask These 5 Questions to Decide Your Next Career Move, and more!
The Security Weekly 25 index has finally cooled off, closing at 2226.93 on January 13th, 2022, which is an increase of 122.69% (down from last Q) since inception. The NASDAQ Index closed at 14,806.81 on January 13th, 2022, which is an increase of 123.15% (down from last Q) during the same period. It hit another all-time high of 16,057.44 during the...
A ransomware attack struck the Maryland Department of Health on Dec. 4, driving the systems offline in an effort to contain the spread. The outage has spurred manual COVID-19 reporting.
While the cloud computing infrastructure is designed to be very agile and flexible, transparency to where the information is being processed is very important due to global privacy and security concerns. Steve discusses approaches to remaining compliant with the various laws (i.e. restricting where the data may reside) when moving to the cloud. To ...
This week in the Security Weekly News: Toilet snakes, CES, CISA, Supply Chain Library Hijinx, QNAP, colors and fakers, and the first episode of 2022 for the Security Weekly News! All this and the returning Expert Commentary of Jason Wood!
Here's the concept: Replace the traditional operating system with a relational database, "built on bare metal" said MIT's Michael Coden, with applications input as stored procedures. The result just may be improved resiliency, with faster detection of and recovery from cyber incidents. Now the team just needs more companies to raise their hands and give the prototype a try.
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