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5 Steps to Maximize AI in Business Projects: Avoiding Security and Regulatory Headaches
Companies across the globe have jumped on the artificial intelligence (AI) bandwagon and started developing products that incorporate AI or use AI tools to empower their current workforce.
Vulnerability Management: 5 Steps To Protect Your Business
In the most simplistic terms, vulnerability management is an element of cybersecurity that involves finding and remediating weaknesses in your computer systems to minimize ways hackers can negatively impact your business.
Incident Response Plan: How to Prepare for the Worst and Protect Your Business
Imagine learning that you’ve just experienced a cyber incident. A cyber incident might be one of your software vendors telling you they found your password on the dark web. Perhaps you log onto your computer only to see a ransomware message. Maybe you can’t log onto your computer — and no one at your company can. What should you do?
In the Crosshairs: 8 Ways to Engage Cybercriminals to Win the Cyber War
Many companies do cybersecurity wrong. They play defense with little to no thought of offense, allowing their weaknesses and vulnerabilities to be the focal point of their cyber strategy. Instead, they should build a program to engage the cybercriminal, allowing their strengths and resiliencies to guide their cyber strategy and win the cyber war.
In the Crosshairs: 4 Tips for Lessening the Likelihood of a Cyberattack
The vast majority of businesses live with the ongoing threat of a cyberattack. They possess money and data, which cybercriminals want to steal. Therefore, these businesses should do everything in their power to lessen the likelihood that an attack will be successful. But what does that look like?
6 Things to Look for in a Cyber Expert for Your Board of Directors
A board of directors (BoD) has the power to shape an organization significantly, which means it is also responsible for managing security. With the global cost of cybercrime expected to rise to $13.2 trillion by 2028, selecting a cybersecurity expert to sit on the board of directors should be a top priority for any company.
In the Crosshairs: 4 Principles for Assessing the Likelihood of a Cyberattack
You’ll learn how to assess the likelihood of a cyberattack on your business. Our goal is to help you clearly and systematically consider how susceptible you are to an attack and act on that knowledge proactively and proactively.
Preparing For the Next Wave of Data Privacy Obligations
Some things just are better together. Peanut butter and jelly. Coffee and cream. Batman and Robin. Salt and pepper. Security and privacy.
10 Password Security Best Practices
Password security is one of the easiest, cheapest, and most effective ways to strengthen cybersecurity, reduce cyber risk, and decrease costs.
How the SBOM Executive Order Helps Improve Cybersecurity
In the wake of major cyberattacks, such as December 2021’s Log4Shell, Congress and federal agencies have ramped up requirements for transparency in software supply chains. Software vendors are facing new requirements, including providing a software bill of materials, or SBOM, which can help improve cybersecurity measures.
Demystifying GRC in Cybersecurity: Governance, Risk, and Compliance Explained
GRC helps you manage the Governance, Risk, and Compliance aspects of your business. By bringing visibility and control to your software, GRC has big implications for cybersecurity as well.
Why You Need a Cyber Expert on Your Board of Directors
Cybersecurity has been a business risk for decades. The board of directors (BoD) has a responsibility to help manage that risk, but most BoDs don’t even have a cyber expert.
Advice for Leaders—Think Like Your Adversary
How do cyber bad actors, a.k.a., our adversaries, think? Easy, like the rest of us. Well, with a slightly different optic. If you're leading an organization, you are charged with staying one step ahead of your adversaries — your data, earnings, and business future depend on it.
Understanding and Mitigating Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risks
Protecting your company from cyber threats is hard enough — so why worry about anyone else? Because of supply chains. Because of Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 suppliers. Because you hire consultants and they hire subcontractors, every one of them is a potential vulnerability.
Building a Cybersecurity Team Structure: Best Practices
Every organization has a cybersecurity team. Some teams are big, some are small. Some invest a lot in protecting their companies, while others … take risks. It all depends.
3 Big Benefits of Cybersecurity Awareness Training For Your Employees
If you run a business, you must invest in cybersecurity awareness training for your employees. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a big or small business, or whether you started up last week or have been open for years. Whatever your situation, you need a budget for cybersecurity awareness training.
Zero Trust Security Explained: Strategies for a Secure Digital Future
The world runs on trust, and cybersecurity is no different. Just as you take an elevator without worrying about it crashing, you shop online because you trust that your money and data are safe. How does that happen? Because of a cybersecurity model called zero trust.
Mastering Defense in Depth: A Comprehensive Guide for Cybersecurity
One of the hardest things about cyber is that no measure is 100% effective forever — which makes defense in depth one of the essential cybersecurity frameworks.
Cybersecurity is not Privacy
You've spent time, effort, and money building a solid cybersecurity structure for your organization. You believe you have privacy — specifically, data privacy — also covered.
Advice for Leaders—A CISO Needs to be a Leader First
Overlooking the importance of leadership can be a fatal error for an organization. Yet, in cybersecurity leadership today, leadership is often overlooked. But why?
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