Topic: security metrics
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Quantify Cyber Risk to Win Executive Buy-In
CISOs should translate cyber risks into financial terms to secure executive approval for security budgets by demonstrating potential monetary losses and investment returns. The evolving threat landscape includes AI-driven attacks and defenses, requiring constant vigilance and adaptation in cybers...
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Go Beyond Checklists: Build a Mature Automotive Cybersecurity Program
A mature automotive cybersecurity program requires a foundation in established frameworks like ISO, but must go beyond compliance by developing a tailored risk management strategy that addresses unique threats and deploys proactive controls across the enterprise. Comprehensive threat visibility, ...
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The Critical Role of Password Security in Cybersecurity
Password security remains critical despite advanced threats, with stolen credentials involved in nearly half of all breaches, highlighting the need for robust management strategies. Weaknesses stem from hybrid IT environments, forgotten legacy accounts, and predictable user behaviors like simple ...
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4 Time-Saving Strategies to Boost Security Monitoring
Traditional SIEM systems face challenges with data latency, storage costs, and processing overhead, making it difficult to balance comprehensive security visibility with budget constraints. Time series data approaches enable faster anomaly detection and long-term threat hunting by providing immed...
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How Rakuten Viber Secures Privacy While Fighting Abuse
Security for global messaging platforms is a critical human responsibility, as they serve as essential lifelines during crises; this demands prioritizing availability, integrity, and resilience with life-or-death consequences, not just as technical metrics. End-to-end encryption necessitates prot...
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AI Can't Keep Up: Security Jobs Are Booming
Board-level engagement with security teams has increased, integrating them into strategic business discussions on resilience and risk, but this comes with heightened pressure to demonstrate value through clear metrics. Security professionals face operational strain from manual, repetitive tasks, ...
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FortiSIEM PoC Released, Rakuten Viber CISO on Messaging Risks
A critical FortiSIEM vulnerability (CVE-2025-64155) now has a public exploit, heightening the urgency for immediate patching, while other vendors like Cisco also addressed actively exploited flaws. Security teams are exploring unconventional intelligence sources, such as torrent metadata, and fac...
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Your Security Strategy Is Failing Before It Begins
Cybersecurity must be treated as a core business risk management function, not just a technical issue, and integrated with business objectives from the start to ensure meaningful protection and executive support. A successful strategy requires first identifying critical assets and risks before de...
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Dependency-Track: Open-Source Software Supply Chain Security
Dependency-Track is an open-source platform that provides continuous, real-time monitoring of software supply chain risks by analyzing Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) across an organization's entire portfolio. It identifies vulnerabilities, outdated components, and licensing issues by aggrega...
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AI Agents Are Here: The CISO's Next Big Challenge
Businesses are increasingly adopting AI agents for security operations, which offer autonomous decision-making but also introduce new challenges for CISOs in oversight and governance. AI agents enhance security by automating tasks, improving threat detection and response speed, and reducing manua...
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing Zero Trust
Zero trust security shifts from assuming internal network trust to continuously verifying every user, device, and application attempting to access resources, starting with foundational actions like enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) and removing stale accounts. The model adds intelligent...
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Unlock Cyber Safety: Your 2025 Awareness Guide
Cybersecurity Awareness Month highlights the need to move beyond basic security practices as machine identities and AI-driven threats create unmanaged attack surfaces that organizations are unprepared for. Experts advise treating machine identities with the same seriousness as human accounts, emb...
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