As attack surfaces have grown, so has risk - and adversaries are finding new ways to infiltrate organizations. Wade Ellery of Radiant Logic discusses the convergence of risk, identity management and zero trust security, spelling out new strategies to defend attack surfaces and minimize risk.
Even in the best of times, chief information security officers (CISOs) and their teams face numerous challenges in protecting the brand, the business and
sensitive data against ever-changing threats—all with finite and constrained resources. Today, those challenges are more extreme than ever. In a rapidly
changing...
John Kindervag, creator of Zero Trust, and two ISMG editors discuss whether we have advanced or regressed in security technology, implementing Zero Trust security in OT environments, and how federal agencies are progressing with Zero Trust adoption a year after the cybersecurity executive order.
Tailscale has closed a $100 million funding round to enhance its zero trust VPN offering by factoring in the security posture of a particular device. The startup plans to use the Series B proceeds to create access policies that are variable based on the security posture of a device itself.
Since the shift to work from home, there's been a paradigm shift in the IT and security industry. The concept of experiencing a breach is no longer an ""if"" but a ""when."" Forward-thinking organizations have formulated – and regularly update – their incident response plans and playbooks to ensure smooth and...
Many organizations have started adopting zero trust strategies to protect their distributed networks from growing cyber threats. Read this guide that explores the origin of the methodology, why the movement to this approach is steadily gaining steam today, and what's needed to secure successful adoption of zero...
Enterprises must recognize that even the tiniest crack in their network's armor can be exploited. In fact, the idea of a perimeter, or the castle-and-moat approach to security, is long past its “use by” date. Organizations should not automatically trust anything inside or outside their perimeters. The endpoint is...
As one embarks on a zero trust journey, it's best to start with a network approach, according to Amit Basu, who is vice president, chief information officer and chief information security officer at International Seaways, a New York-based tanker company.
In this edition, four ISMG editors discuss important cybersecurity issues, including how virtual currency Monero is becoming the main alternative to Bitcoin as the crypto choice for criminals, the challenges involved in an identity-centric Zero Trust approach and how to influence change in culture.
How does one decide the right approach to zero trust, and what are some important considerations to keep in mind? A panel of experts - Brett Winterford, Chirag Joshi and Jay Hira - share their in-depth views and discuss issues including how to take an identity-centric zero trust approach.
Lynn Peachey, the director of business development at Arete Incident Response, says that insurance companies have made "a pretty quick turnaround in terms of trying to respond to the ransomware epidemic." She discusses the changes they are making, which include leveraging data quantification.
During its January cyberattack, Lapsus$ accessed tenants and viewed applications such as Slack and Jira for only two Okta customers. The threat actor actively controlled a single workstation used by a Sitel support engineer for 25 consecutive minutes on Jan. 21, according to a forensic report.
Security Service Edge (SSE) is described by Gartner as the security stack of services within a SASE architecture. SSE is fast, easy to use, and secures your business wherever your people and data go.
In this book, you’ll:
Understand how digital transformations affect the future of security
Explore the...
Like all cultural changes, a zero-trust culture starts with a conversation around where the security risks lie and how security needs to adapt to changing applications and infrastructure landscape. Identity is key to zero trust but needs support from other security capabilities.
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