Cybersecurity Leadership

As a result of this shift from the IT to OT landscape, the C-suite must educate themselves and drive change into the organization to ensure a robust cybersecurity program is in place that addresses OT separately from IT.

IT teams need to rethink their cybersecurity strategies for the better

The hack revealed how little control consumers have these days.

The chief information security officer has a big, mission critical job. Make sure you spell out the CISO's duties and expectations for the role.

Security leaders must translate their technical expertise into business insights when communicating cyber risks to executives and board directors.

Publicis Groupe’s chief information security officer, Thom Langford, explains why a good security culture is one that doesn’t have the word 'security' in it

Recent media attention on the Wannacry incident provides the opportunity for information security managers to demonstrate what they did right and how management decisions (and investments) directly impacted how the organization was able to defeat evolving attacks. To communicate these accomplishments InfoSec professionals should assess their performance against an unbiased baseline. But which baseline? US-CERT Alerts.

As FS companies work to plug gaps in their internal, online and digital frameworks; those wanting to exploit the weaknesses are getting smarter, bolder and more

There’s one thing they can both agree on.

COMPUTER security is a contradiction in terms. Consider the past year alone: cyberthieves stole $81m from the central bank of Bangladesh; the $4.8bn takeover of Yahoo, an internet firm, by Verizon, a telecoms firm, was nearly derailed by two enormous data breaches; and Russian hackers interfered in the American presidential election.

A cyberattack on Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) will have cascading effects across Europe and shows collaboration is needed to challenge future attacks.

It is not rare for OT Security to end up in some form of organisational no-man's-land, poorly integrated into wider security practices.

How to position the role of the Group CISO in large firms where governance and organization can be very complex? And how to make it work?

An overwhelming 85 percent of executives polled said they believe that cyberattacks will become more frequent and costly over the next 12 months.

World-class organizations recognize that cybersecurity can, and should, be a powerful enabler for business.

Keep appointing pure technologists in CISO roles and you’ll never win. Security is not a mere technology matter and has a profound cultural dimension

When it comes to security, only perfect practice makes perfect. Still, many IT teams rush through the motions in a mad dash to show signs of progress.