Take Back Control of your Cybersecurity Now

January 2017

In 2017, top leadership and board directors cannot afford to be misled or misinformed about the state of their organization’s defenses, nor should they be overconfident in their team’s incident response and recovery capabilities.

What questions should boards and management be considering? What questions should they ask the CISO? What do board directors and management need to know about the best ways to tackle cyber risks?

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Paul Ferrillo. Christophe Veltsos. (2017). Take Back Control of your Cybersecurity Now. New York, NY: Advisen Ltd.

Feds Learn a Lesson on the Increasingly Intricate World of Cybersecurity

Federal cybersecurity may seem like a costly endeavor, but a new report suggests that government agencies could save up to $5 billion annually if they focused on monitoring threats more effectively and automating responses to those threats.

A new report from MeriTalk indicates that federal agencies can’t protect themselves quickly enough against attacks, nor can they guard against intrusions against all possible entry points that might be used by hackers. While federal agencies might be able to detect a threat to traditional targets such as email servers or Internet gateways, they are less able to deal with similar attacks on mobile devices or cloud computing.

Read more at http://www.advisenltd.com/2016/12/01/feds-learn-a-lesson-on-the-increasingly-intricate-world-of-cybersecurity/

Erin Ayers, Feds learn a lesson on the increasingly intricate world of cybersecurity (December 1, 2016), available with subscription at Advisen Cyber Front Page News.

Engineers Call for Greater Recognition of ‘Silent’ Cyber Risks

Engineers across the globe came together to sound the alarm on the risks related to the Internet of Things and cloud computing – and their fears that the insurance industry doesn’t fully grasp the “silent threat.”

A new report from the International Association of Engineering Insurers (IMIA) calls for underwriters, brokers, and risk managers to work together more diligently to improve understanding of cyber risks for engineers.

Read more at http://www.advisenltd.com/2016/10/17/engineers-call-for-greater-recognition-of-silent-cyber-risks/

Erin Ayers, Engineers call for greater recognition of ‘silent’ cyber risks (October 17, 2016), available with subscription at Advisen Cyber Front Page News.