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Every Employee is Part of Your Security

Employees are an essential component of an organization’s security defenses, according to Nico Popp, Chief Product Officer at Forcepoint. On the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast, Popp explained that humans generally want to do the right thing and can help prevent cyberattacks that can’t be stopped by technical safeguards. Popp pointed to the way financial institutions have their customers verify potentially suspicious transactions as an example of this. “I always use the example of credit card companies,” he said. “They have been brilliant. You know, they have huge fraud issues. And what have they done? They basically involve us in the process of solving, right? They don’t always block your credit …

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Mar 8 2021

The Impact of AI on Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity / By Ahmed Sharaf

Educational Session Register By March 2, 20219:00 AMET Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed and will continue to change how cybersecurity and privacy professionals protect their institutions’ secret, confidential, and private information. Increasingly, institutions defending their data against the most sophisticated, coordinated, and persistent cyberattacks are relying on AI-driven solutions. This panel will discuss how AI will likely influence the reasonableness standard in courts of law that must determine whether a litigant accused of negligent cybersecurity or data privacy management practices had reasonable safeguards in place when its systems were compromised and its most sensitive data was stolen. How nation-state level cyber-attackers engaging in cyber-espionage use AI to attack and how …

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Feb 15 2021

Protect What Matters Most: Risk Management, Cyber Security and Incident Response for Modern Business

Incident Response / By Ahmed Sharaf

As businesses adopt digital practices more than ever, now is the time to prepare for the next generation of threats and attacks expected to continue, and even increase, in 2021 and beyond. Hosted by some of the most well-known industry experts, our upcoming webinar will highlight risk management for cybersecurity in three areas – defense, legal and financial risk transfer. Business leaders will learn: How to identify potential risks Assess their impact, and Plan an appropriate response to mitigate against potential financial and legal liabilities Special Guest: Ms. Bolanle Akinrimisi, Beazley Group, Data Breach Insurance Ms. Akinrimisi is an expert in cyber risk claims, Bolanle Akinrimisi is currently Beazley’s Cyber …

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Feb 14 2021

Keeping “IT” Security Real, Re-imagining Cyber Defenses

Awareness Training, Cyber Defense, Cyber Security Framework, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Dropbox, Email Security, Endpoint Security, Identity Management, Incident Response, Internet of Things, Layered Defense / By Ahmed Sharaf

Much has changed due to Covid-19, Remote Work from Home (or Anywhere) and the ongoing SolarWinds fiasco have caused every cybersecurity team to review “what really matters in terms of cyber risk,” and master the basics as the foundation of their security program. As I have been known to say, in ‘cyber’ what was once true yesterday, may not be so today! It is often recommended to check-in from time-to-time and explore what may have changed. This continues to ring true today. When Covid-19 lockdowns were officially announced in March of 2020, much of the workforce had to rapidly shift to a new mode of working opening or compound existing …

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