CIS Risk Assessment Method (RAM) v2.1 for CIS Controls v8
CIS recently released the CIS Risk Assessment Method (RAM) v2.1, a risk assessment method designed to help enterprises justify investments for implementing the CIS Critical...
How to Protect Your Social Media Accounts
Social media is part of our social fabric. So much so that nearly 50% of the global population are social media users to some degree...
McAfee Wins Product of the Year for Best Online Protection
You can feel even more confident that you’ll enjoy life online with us at your side. AV-Comparatives has awarded McAfee as its 2021 Product of...
UK Government to Launch PR Campaign Undermining End-to-End Encryption
Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK government has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch an anti-encryption advertising campaign. Presumably they’ll lean heavily...
When It comes to Cybersecurity – An ounce of prevention
Benjamin Franklin advised fire-threatened Philadelphians in 1736 that, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Clearly, preventing fires is better than fighting...
Three recent events prove the need for an insider risk playbook
Every company, regardless of size, should have an insider risk management playbook in place to address the insider threat. The human factor is always in...
Collective resilience: Why CISOs are embracing a new culture of openness
Security exec Chad Kliewer had heard the initial reports of the SolarWinds attack as news about it broke in December 2020, sympathetic to those companies...
An Examination of the Bug Bounty Marketplace
Here’s a fascinating report: “Bounty Everything: Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug Marketplace.” From a summary: …researchers Ryan Ellis and Yuan Stevens provide...
The emotional stages of a data breach: How to deal with panic, anger, and guilt
It usually happens on a Friday afternoon, at around 4 or 5 p.m. Admins and security experts receive a message telling them that something weird...
A bad day in the office for the REvil ransomware gang, as Russia arrests 14 members
While data-wiping malware is hitting the PCs of multiple Ukrainian organisations, Russia has taken the surprising step of arresting 14 members of the REvil ransomware...