With the holiday season here and the end of the year coming up, the thought that cybersecurity risks are lurking about puts no one at ease. A key to securing your business always starts with focus and awareness. This is achievable by having a rundown of important cybersecurity incidents and trends.
There’s always a lot of talk about the board and cybersecurity. This topic is important because without the board’s approval, organizations can’t take the necessary steps to improve cybersecurity. As time passes and mega breaches keep popping up, like the recent Yahoo mega breach, the board does seem to be getting more interested in cybersecurity. However, the question remains, what’s the board’s cybersecurity ‘why’?
A little over a year ago Tripwire conducted a study that showed energy sector IT professionals were overconfident in their ability to detect breach. Unfortunately, this overconfidence persists. This year’s Tripwire study showed that 72% of energy IT pros believe they could detect configuration changes to endpoint devices on their organization’s network within the hour.
The types of security risks that organizations face vary in nature, which is why there’s such a push for all types of businesses to take a holistic approach to information security. Not only do businesses deal with the continuous evolution of threats, but they also deal with vulnerabilities that are hard to manage and resolve. One of these types of weak spots is insider threat.
When organizations think of information security, they don’t necessarily think business continuity management (BCM) as being a part of it. Some security executives think the same as well, and this is a grave assumption. BCM affects your information security and a study by the Ponemon Institute shows exactly how.