I am extremely pleased today to announce Claroty’s integration into Tripwire's ICS security capabilities. The integration of our respective technologies, based on a shared vision of how the security landscape is evolving, addresses a fast-growing need within industrial enterprises for top-floor to shop-floor visibility across both business and...

DevOps is redefining the way organizations handle software development. But it’s also challenging security professionals in their efforts to manage digital risk. With that said, there are security teams need to be strategic about how they approach DevOps security. Here are some expert recommendations on what to do and what to avoid when implementing...

New updates and additions to compliance requirements are as regular as the rising and setting of the sun. Recently, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a companion publication to NIST 800-171 that provides guidance on how organizations can assess the CUI requirements in NIST 800-171, known as SP 800-171A. The purpose...

It is a common trend now to see most of the organizations opting for the cloud. Growing business demands, competition and the growth of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) have helped propel this trend. While everything looks smart in the cloud, what about security? Does that look smart, too? Now that organizations use different kinds of cloud environments...

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) of the United Kingdom announced it will fine Equifax £500,000 for a data breach that occurred in 2017. In a monetary penalty notice filed on 19 September, the ICO revealed its decision to impose the maximum fine specified in section 55A of the Data...

Over the past several months, increased attention has been paid to U.S. federal government policies surrounding internal use of IoT devices. In January 2018, researchers discovered they could track the movements of fitness tracker-wearing military personnel over the Internet. In July, a similar revelation occurred with fitness app Polar, which was...

Governments, businesses and societies as a whole benefit enormously from Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI assists organisations in reducing operational costs, boosting user experience, elevating efficiency and cultivating revenue. But it also creates a number of security challenges for personal data and forms many ethical dilemmas for organisations....

Vulnerability management (VM) programs are the meat and potatoes of every comprehensive information security program. They are not optional anymore. In fact, many information security compliance, audit and risk management frameworks require organizations to maintain a vulnerability management program. If you don’t have vulnerability management tools,...

Bolting on security after the fact. It’s been a common approach to software security for decades. We architect, build code, deploy it and then figure out how to secure it. From the parade of application-related breaches and data thefts over the last few years, we pretty much know this approach does not work. Fortunately, the evolution of continuous...

Have you ever wondered how much your patient health record could garner on the black market? Whereas a cybercriminal only needs to shell out a mere dollar for your social security number, your electronic health record (EHR) is likely to sell for something closer to the tune of $50. This is according to research firm Cybersecurity Ventures, who also...

In the healthcare industry, data sets are growing rapidly, both in volume and complexity, as the sources and types of data keep on multiplying. As of now, 30 percent of the world's information is assessed to be medical services data, and in the U.S., many hospitals collect over 100 data points per patient per day. This healthcare data keeps on being...

ABBYY, the developer of optical character recognition and text-scanning software, left a server containing 142GB of a customer's scanned documents exposed for anyone on the internet to access, no password required. The AWS-hosted MongoDB server, accidentally left configured for public access, contained some 203,896 properly OCR'd contracts, non...

If you are like most infosec professionals, each day brings new and interesting challenges. However, like most jobs, there are valleys that we fall into along the course of our professional development. How long can you stare at your SIEM tool before you start to experience some mild tunnel vision, or worse, severe burnout? Neither of these are...

Earlier this year, the City of Atlanta suffered a ransomware attack on the city’s computer systems. The attack affected more than one-third of Atlanta's 424 essential programs, close to 30 percent of which were “mission critical” functions. While most of the visible damage has been remedied, the effects of the attack will be felt for a long time....

March 15, 2018, was a momentous day for U.S. homeland security officials. On that date, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for the first time ever attributed digital attacks on American energy infrastructure to actors associated with the Russian government. Their joint technical alert (TA)...

Hackers planted malware on an automated teller machine (ATM) server belonging to an Indian bank as part of a criminal scheme which saw the theft of nearly 944 million rupees (US $13.5 million) in a co-ordinated attack across 28 countries last weekend. India's Cosmos Bank, based in the western city of Pune, suffered an attack which saw hackers use...

What is Caller ID? Caller identification (Caller ID) is a service that allows the receiver of a phone call to determine the identity of the caller. Caller ID is initially sent over at the start of the phone call and identifies the incoming caller before the receiver answers the phone. Caller ID is not associated with the actual phone number but is...

The landmark NYS DFS cybersecurity regulation that took effect in New York State in March 2017 is approaching its third of four milestones. This was the first regulation of its kind that included prescriptive direction for the protection of personally identifiable information handled by all financial institutions that conduct business in the State....

In early August, I will be leading a couple of sessions at the Community College Cyber Summit about cyber security fundamentals. I've also been spending time working with my amazing colleagues thinking about DevOps. Spending so much time going back and forth from "back to basics" and "the future of development" had me thinking that securing DevOps...

I’m an executive-level security headhunter. That means I spend a lot of my week doing two things: talking to CISOs or those people ready to be CISOs and consulting with companies that are in the market for a security leader. My experience is that companies looking for a security leader fall into three categories. The first category consists of...