The ever-accelerating pace of change across the global threat landscape means businesses face a more serious cybersecurity threat than ever before. While some improvements have been made in key areas, enterprises must strive to improve their security posture, according to the “2017 Midyear Cybersecurity Report” from networking specialist Cisco. Organizations that make the transition will be better prepared for the continuing evolution of attacks.
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Security staff and skills deficits lead to weaknesses in areas such as threat hunting, prioritizing security alerts, and computer forensics
I’ve written a lot about the cybersecurity skills shortage over the past five years. For example, ESG research indicates that 45 percent of organizations claim to have a problematic shortage of cybersecurity skills.
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CISOs agree: The right technologies and defense in depth are the key factors in avoiding major cybersecurity breaches. It helps to have good processes and a skilled staff in place, but strong cybersecurity technologies are the most important factor to avoid data breaches.
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Given technology’s fast-paced, innovative nature, it’s no surprise that many terms associated with the industry experience a brief shelf life. Although many of these buzzwords are fleeting, certain terms like “cybersecurity” have transformed from popular jargon into one of the most important topics in Internet technology today.
With the average cost of a security breach reaching $4 million in 2016, according to the Ponemon Institute, the concern for strong cybersecurity is pushing all industries to be mindful as they innovate. In fact, fears over network security have already begun to shift the outlook of industries that remain particularly vulnerable, primarily healthcare.
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Changing your password needs to become like washing your hands after using the bathroom — a habit. We’re a long way off from that.
Look both ways before you cross the street. Wash your hands before leaving the bathroom. Put a seat belt on when you get in the car. Don’t eat the yellow snow.
These are all common sense tips for safety that people have learned, whether from parents or one really embarrassing moment in the winter. But when it comes to cybersecurity, common sense is rare.
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An effective incident response program should help an organization deal with a breach. In the fourth part of his cybersecurity series, Jeremy Rasmussen shares the steps to take after a hacking has occurred.
This is the fourth in a series of articles to inform multifamily professionals of the current cybersecurity threat-scape and recommend best practices for dealing with these issues.
EFFECTIVE INCIDENT RESPONSE
As we have seen earlier in our series, today, there is an assumption of breach. It is the new normal. The questions are: 1) how ready will you be and 2) how quickly can you detect and respond to contain the threat? An effective incident response program should help an organization be able to deal with ransomware, phishing, denial of service and other attacks. This can turn a $10 million incident into a $10 thousand incident.
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A firewall is absolutely necessary for network protection, but it often provides little more than a false sense of security. In this third part of his cybersecurity series, Jeremy Rasmussen advises on additional precautions you should take.
This is the third in a series of articles to inform multifamily professionals of the current cybersecurity threat-scape and recommend best practices for dealing with these issues.
BUSTING MYTHS ABOUT CYBERSECURITY TECHNOLOGIES
“We’re secure. We have a good firewall,” is like saying: “My home is secure, I have a good lock on the front door.”
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A lack of due diligence with cybersecurity can lead to hefty financial penalties, lost business and productivity, regulatory fines and litigation. But cybersecurity starts with executive buy-in. Without it, the program will have no direction to succeed.
This is the second in a series of articles to inform multifamily professionals of the current cybersecurity threat-scape and recommend best practices for dealing with these issues.
PART II – A LEADERSHIP DISCUSSION: IMPLEMENTING PROPER CYBERSECURITY GOVERNANCE
Even though I am a technology professional, I can say unequivocally that cybersecurity starts with executive leadership. It can’t be a grassroots program started by the IT department. Without management buy-in, a cybersecurity program has no direction, no funding, no teeth.
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The cost of a data breach is significant today, and will only continue to escalate as liability, regulation and other factors increase.
This is the first in a series of articles to inform multifamily professionals of the current cybersecurity threat-scape and recommend best practices for dealing with these issues.
PART I–THE VALUE OF YOUR INFORMATION
The first thing multifamily housing industry professionals need to know is that you are sitting on a goldmine of information that hackers would love to steal.
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The clever tricks attackers use to compromise your mobile devices may surprise you, so harden your defenses with these three tips and confidently work from anywhere.
Many of you have to travel for work. That makes you an attractive target to cyber criminals that want to steal trade secrets, customer information, or even infect your system in a way that puts your network at risk when you return to the office. You can, however, work on the road in a much more secure way, armed with some basic precautions and awareness.
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