Cybersecurity

The Ransomware Task Force (RTF), associated with the Institute for Security and Technology, recently published a December 2022 Progress Report, stressing that the scale of the ransomware threat continues to grow, even as stakeholders are devoting more attention to the challenge. 

Despite AWIA Section 2013 and/or cyber insurance requirements, do you still struggle with risk management? Even more so with your third-party – vendors, contractors, consultants, and integrators – relationships? As organizations struggle with assessing risk across their own organizational attack surface, it’s often more challenging to assess the cyber risk posed from and preparedness of third-party partners (new and existing). Many aren’t sure where to start or even what questions to ask of these trusted partners – perhaps even more so with technology services partners.

Security Magazine has written an article proposing that utilizing employee surveillance capabilities is not the most effective way to handle the risk of insider threats to an organization, primarily due to the use of technology exacerbating what could already be a negative employee relationship.

Does cyber resilience keep you up at night? How confident are you in defending your utility’s cyber resilience status? Cisco’s newest Security Outcomes Report - Volume 3 may help as it explores seven success factors for boosting cyber resilience. In developing the report, Cisco asked 4,700 practitioners across 26 countries what security resilience means to them, what they’re doing successfully to achieve it, and what they’re struggling with.