By taking what you know about security in the physical world and logically applying it to the virtual world, you can effectively protect your personal information.
You can slow down a hacker, but it will do you good to accept that you may never be able to truly stop someone from getting through your first line of defense.
If the rest of the community would give hackers more of a chance before writing them off as evildoers, there would potentially be more incentives for capable people to go into the white hat hacking business.
Protecting this data is a necessity as more and more consumers are voluntarily offering up their rights to security or privacy in search for convenience.
Almost every industry can improve efficiencies with blockchain. But what will make blockchain a success is ultimately security.
One of the crucial benefits of blockchain is its distributed capabilities, which mean there isn’t one centralized target to hack.
How to Overcome Cyber "Insecurities"
Whether they come from a technical, business or even military background, all CISOs experience a number of personal and professional roadblocks on a daily basis that challenge the ultimate success of their company’s security.
If the WannaCry incident taught us anything, it’s that global, widespread ransomware can and will impact organizations without any notice. The time to prepare is now.
By removing the allure of hacking, we can hopefully incentivize cybercriminals to instead use their skills in a positive way, to benefit not only themselves but also the greater good.
While automation delivers many benefits to the enterprise, there are dangers to mindlessly automating every business function, especially when it comes to security.
If CISOs took a page from physicians and worked together to share missteps and move forward, they could gain crucial security learnings and prevent the spread of attacks.
Every year, countless security vendors roam the show floor at RSA, promising that their latest revolutionary tool is going to solve the entire world’s security problems.
Focusing on securing an endless amount of endpoints is almost impossible to do effectively. You can’t rely on the devices to be secure and you can’t rely on the consumers to secure their devices themselves.
The interests of the researchers should be to make the world more secure, not profit from a corporation’s vulnerabilities.
Listen to your coach. Similar to the Olympics, a CSO or CISO needs to be able to lead their team and consider the impact they will have on the broader organization.
Containerized Security: The Next Evolution of Virtualization?
While using containers to secure your organization is a relatively novel approach, it can lead to cost savings and massive scalability.
It is critical for business leadership to address the growing threat of ransomware as a business risk rather than a siloed IT issue.
While it’s important to have multiple layers of defense, more emphasis needs to be placed on how companies integrate, update and manage their security.