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How to reason your way through the Certified Protection Professional (CPP) exam

March 11, 2021

ASIS International’s Certified Protection Professional (CPP) certification is highly beneficial for security professionals seeking leadership roles. It has its flaws but, anecdotally, I have seen it mentioned in job ads more often than any other designation. When I passed the requisite exam in early February and promised to offer my thoughts, the reaction from future test-takers was welcoming. So here they are. To paraphrase the Law & Order TV franchise, “this is my story. DUN DUN.”

New York’s DFS publishes a Cyber Insurance Risk Framework

New York’s Division of Financial Services (DFS) now requires Property and Casualty Insurers writing cyber insurance to comply with the Division’s Cyber Insurance Risk Framework to manage their risk.

Erik Dullea Eric Levy

March 11, 2021

New York’s Division of Financial Services (DFS) now requires Property and Casualty Insurers writing cyber insurance to comply with the Division’s Cyber Insurance Risk Framework to manage their risk.

Is the World Economic Forum's prediction of a global cybersecurity failure in the next 10 years avoidable?

Shira Rubinoff

March 11, 2021

The World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report for 2021 placed cybersecurity failure among the greatest threats facing humanity within the next ten years. Clearly, in this climate, and since many jumped into the world of cyber operations without adequate preparation, cybersecurity is now a critical priority.

Moving from ‘working at from home’ to a hybrid work experience

Nelson Cicchitto

March 11, 2021

Identity management has become a focal point for enterprise security. With the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the scramble to support work-from-home employees, the real threat to business data assets, whether in the enterprise or the cloud, has become unsecured remote access.

Security researchers discover SUPERNOVA web shell activity linked to Chinese hackers

March 10, 2021

Researchers from the Counter Threat Unit (CTU) at Secureworks have discovered a possible link to China while examining how SolarWinds servers were used to deploy malware. According to Secureworks' new report, the authentication bypass vulnerability in SolarWinds Orion API, tracked as CVE-2020-10148, that can lead to remote execution of API commands, has been actively exploited by Spiral. When vulnerable servers are detected and exploited, a script capable of writing the SUPERNOVA web shell to disk is deployed using a PowerShell command.

5 minutes with Michael Borromeo – Cybersecurity best practices with a hybrid workforce

Maria Henriquez

March 10, 2021

Hybrid work is emerging as a norm, especially for companies who have a mix of workers whose job requires coming into the office, and those who are able to accomplish their work at home. This hybrid workforce is expected to become more prevalent as 75% of workers want to retain flexibility over their schedule beyond the pandemic. To get some insight into how security executives executives can implement consistent security practices for the new hybrid workforce environment, we spoke to Michael Borromeo, Vice President, Data Protection at Stericycle, the provider of Shred-it information security services.

71% of employees share sensitive and business-critical data using instant messaging and business collaboration tools

March 10, 2021

Veritas Technologies revealed new research that highlights the dangers of mis-using instant messaging (IM) and business collaboration tools: 71% of office workers globally – including 68% in the US – admitted to sharing sensitive and business-critical company data using these tools, the survey found.

Starting 2021 with a clean cyber slate

Jack Mannino

March 10, 2021

The new year is upon us, and as such, it is a time to reflect on what worked over the past 12 months, and more importantly, what didn’t work. Organizations all over the world are utilizing applications, operating systems, and IoT devices while their data, and their customer’s data, increasingly lives in the cloud. Organizations should take the beginning of the year as a housekeeping opportunity to assess their systems to set themselves up for success in the new year.

30,000 U.S. organizations breached by cyber espionage group Hafnium

March 9, 2021

At least 30,000 organizations in the U.S. have been hacked by a Chinese cyber espionage unit, known as "Hafnium." The group is targeting and exploiting security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server email software.

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The evolution of workplace data privacy best practices

Maggie Shein

March 9, 2021

There has been no shortage of ransomware reports and data breaches affecting companies from all sectors all over the world, accelerated, in part, during 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic caused a mass move to remote work and many organizations raced to accommodate the new normal.