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Communicating Risk and Mitigating Threats in a Changing Cyber Security Landscape

“There is a direct financial benefit of good security practice at the customer interface, a rapid response program of how to deal with cyber events, and a quick clean-up action. Suddenly it becomes very clear that investment in your cyber security practice becomes financially understood and a viable action.
Milena Tsitovitch Milena Tsitovitch
Cyber Security and Risk Management
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8 Apr 2022
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New Ways to look at Cyber Vigilance

The problem though, especially from a cyber security perspective, is that the organisation has already been set up so “we are building the house while we’re living in it.” This is especially challenging since because of COVID-19 “we’ve compressed seven years of technological investment into two.” The pandemic has meant that “the concept of work has changed forever,” whilst the impact has been “profound on all of us, individually, collectively and organisationally.” Yet at the end of the day, people and organisations are mostly concerned by what all the chaos and confusion means for them. The “culture of vigilance” needs …
Neboneid Hamoo Neboneid Hamoo
Cyber Security and Risk Management
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1 Apr 2022
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Whitepapers & Reports

5 Inter-Related Takeaways of Data & Risks

The last couple of years since the start of the pandemic have seen an increase in the types and number of cyber security threats, but also in the brazenness of the attacks. Some of the breaches have cost not just money, but reputational damage as well, whilst others have cost jobs. These …
Neboneid Hamoo Neboneid Hamoo
Cyber Security and Risk Management
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30 Mar 2022
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Interviews

Spotlight: Trellix's Best Performing Technology

Organisations find themselves unable to handle the dynamic and ever-changing threats. To keep pace with these dynamic attacks and to ensure greater visibility, control and ultimate peace of mind, organisations are on the lookout for more centralised visibility and quick resolution of their security issues. We must unleash smart and adaptive capabilities inherited from artificial intelligence and machine learning. New capabilities must touch all aspects of our architecture, process and skills. With the growing sophistication of threats, it’s easy to see why so many businesses are vulnerable to attacks and also why we have to shift our thinking, our approach …
Neboneid Hamoo Neboneid Hamoo
Cyber Security and Risk Management
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23 Mar 2022
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Interviews

Spotlight: Tap into Graph Technologies with Neo4j

We’re seeing very strong demand for knowledge graphs which are essentially an interconnected dataset enriched with meaning, and primed for complex decision making As complex data volumes grow, the types and composition of problems become very varied - an issue government departments and agencies (and the private sector) continue to grapple with. But we have the answer in the form of knowledge graphs that present new ways to use data to drive citizen outcomes. A graph data platform can efficiently model complex networks of entities and their interrelationships, and uncover patterns that are difficult to detect using traditional representations - …
Rosie Fea Rosie Fea
Cyber Security and Risk Management
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16 Mar 2022
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Industry Trends

NDIA's Tips on sharing a Relatable Cyber Story

In an increasingly volatile cyber landscape, one of the biggest challenges facing security leaders is communicating risk and raising cyber awareness across an organisation. In order to increase resilience and maintain good cyber hygiene, it is necessary to convey the need for cyber securi…
Milena Tsitovitch Milena Tsitovitch
Cyber Security and Risk Management
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7 Mar 2022
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Industry Trends

Illuminating Tips on Risk Management

To illustrate the importance of cyber risk management, “let us to look at the fictional case study of a small business.” It might be fictional in that this particular business does not exist, but all the components of the case study are real and based in reality. The business is run by two entrepreneurs “who have a passion to move forward, producing beautiful and functional shoes.” They have been in business for a decade, with a “strong community of customers and they have wonderful relationships with their suppliers, their artists and producers.” As entrepreneurs, the two partners are always looking …
Teresa Anderson Teresa Anderson
Cyber Security and Risk Management
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11 Feb 2022
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Case Study Highlights : Cyber Incident Response Strategy

Apart from just providing forecasts, the BOM also “supports flood activity, cyclones, fires and all other critical weather related activities.” In many ways, “we’re primarily a data organisation, and we support a lot of critical infrastructure as well.” As such, “our data is extremely important,” and this was proven in drastic ways when “we had a major cybersecurity attack in 2016.” It is unclear exactly who was responsible, but the attack was conducted with the use of remote malicious software aimed at mining data about “who we communicate with, but also who our customers and partners are. This set the …
Neboneid Hamoo Neboneid Hamoo
Cyber Security and Risk Management
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11 Feb 2022
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