Tag: Security Leaders

IBM Security General Manager Mary O'Brien sat down for a fireside chat with Kevin Baker, CISO of Westfield Insurance, and Maersk CISO Andy Powell about how digital transformation impacts security.

To gain the buy-in you need to make your IAM program successful, it's important to consider your employees' goals and needs during the design process.

System hardening is more than just creating configuration standards; it involves identifying and tracking assets, drafting a configuration management methodology, and maintaining system parameters.

Social engineering and security awareness training exercises can help business leaders uncover gaps in their incident response plans and identify poor security hygiene among employees.

While many CISOs are tempted to invest in as many new technologies as they can find to fight emerging threats, less is more when it comes to minimizing cybersecurity complexity.

As businesses rush to adopt emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain and big data, board directors must increase their engagement around cybersecurity risk.

Given the historic data breaches, widespread vulnerabilities and onslaught of data privacy regulations that affected businesses around the world in 2018, security culture is more crucial than ever.

Incident response orchestration and automation can help boost the accuracy and efficiency of IR processes and reduce the burden on the understaffed SOC.

With so many fires to put out every day, it can be tempting to put off less urgent security tasks, exposing the enterprise to preventable risks.

The supply/demand ratio for the cyber workforce is now about 2.3 skilled workers per job opening, according to NIST. Security leaders need to be more creative to fill the gaps in their teams.