The U.S. national cybersecurity strategy released by the Biden Administration is part of a larger effort to draw attention to the pervasive issue of cybersecurity liability on the part of vendors. The strategy also calls for ramping up the adoption of software bill of materials, or SBOMs.
Organizations face three major challenges in safeguarding data, said Gee Rittenhouse, CEO of Skyhigh Security. The first is determining where data is located. The second is knowing who had access to the data and what they are doing with it. The third is determining the level of risk exposure.
As the cyberthreat and regulatory landscapes are evolving, so too are the data security and privacy priorities of healthcare sector entities, said Taylor Lehmann, director, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud, who explains how organizations can respond to the challenges.
Network segmentation and microsegmentation are ways to contain cyberattacks and prevent lateral spreading. Within the cloud, network segmentation ties into zero trust. Yet the diversity of information systems with different levels of criticality poses a challenge to implementing zero trust.
Complexity has made it tough for organizations to be secure and efficient, which is driving many customers to look at vendor consolidation, said Palo Alto Networks President BJ Jenkins. Organizations that deploy a lot of point solutions are stuck finding a way to make all the products work together.
Digital transformation has expanded the attack surface with cloud and SaaS applications and led to more users working outside the corporate network, said Arctic Wolf president and CEO Nick Schneider. Midmarket businesses have prioritized security spending around detection and response.
Check Point's product sales have taken their biggest nosedive since 2018 as customers extend sales cycles and postpone projects while prospects decline to buy new products. The company said businesses have increasingly delayed product refresh projects since November in an effort to tighten budgets.
Healthcare sector entities' reliance on specialty and legacy equipment, including imaging systems and other gear, continues to present attractive targets for threat actors and a growing risk for medical providers, said Frank Catucci, CTO and head of research at security firm Invicti Security.
The threat posed by cybercriminals and fraudsters creates shared risks across the financial services industry including fintech companies. But fintech firms can balance rapid innovation with security and work with each other and governments to repel attackers, said Razorpay CISO Hilal Lone.
The transition to the cloud at a fast pace during the pandemic affects information security to this day, said Amer Deeba, co-founder and CEO, Normalyze. Cloud drove innovation but left organizations wondering where the data was going across multiple clouds and what was the best way to secure it.
The increase in attack vectors and new threats has prompted companies to invest heavily in cybersecurity tools. But CISOs struggle with managing siloed products that do not integrate with each other. Consolidation of security architecture is a priority for CISOs, said Check Point's Itai Greenberg.
Cybersecurity is "a full-time task" that requires a lot of discipline, says Ajay Sabhlok, CIO and chief digital officer at Rubrik. He discusses tips for increasing your company's cyber maturity, ideas about how CIOs and CISOs can align, and advice on what not to do, such as pay a ransom.
In recent years, a wide range of organizations have made unprecedented migrations to cloud. But as businesses increasingly rely on cloud-based technologies, the need to mitigate cybersecurity threats has never been greater. Is CNAPP the solution to defending against adversaries in the cloud?
Threat actors are exploiting Kubernetes Role-Based Access Control in the wild to create backdoors and to run cryptocurrency miners. Researchers observed a recent campaign that targeted at least 60 Kubernetes clusters by deploying DaemonSets to hijack and steal resources from the victims' clusters.
Palo Alto Networks and IBM have joined forces to create a strong partnership designed to deliver best-in-class security solutions and services. In an exclusive interview, Bob West of Palo Alto Networks joins IBM's Abhi Chakravorty to discuss the power of the partnership for customers.
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