When security teams buy dozens of security products, they also get dozens of dashboards and sometimes conflicting ways to approach security, which can create its own risk, said Saket Modi, CEO of Safe Security. Risk needs to be more visible and quantifiable, he said.
Social engineering is typically used to trick human beings to gain unauthorized access to computer networks and steal personal information, financial data or intellectual property. It is now becoming popular as a career option for ethical hackers, said Alethe Denis of Bishop Fox.
IT-OT convergence has created interconnection between components that were historically separate and have different maturity levels. But attacks on OT can have a kinetic impact that can lead to very grim scenarios, said Ashish Thapar, vice president and head of cybersecurity consulting at NTT.
This is the time and place in which geopolitical interests, hacktivism, espionage and all of the crime syndicates are coming together, and we're amateurs showing up at that gunfight with a knife, said Jeff Multz, senior vice president of sales in North America at Radware.
Data breaches are often the result of hackers exploiting bugs in third-party service providers to make their way to larger organizations. Rishi Rajpal, vice president of global security at Concentrix, discussed how to pick the right partners and mutually benefit from each other's services.
The challenges in building a privacy program to comply with laws and regulations across multiple jurisdictions and verticals are numerous, especially since much has changed in the past decade, said Nishant Bhajaria, director of privacy engineering, architecture and analytics at Uber One.
Many organizations are finally improving basic cyber hygiene, but the major problem facing defenders and governments is how to achieve scale across all sizes of businesses including nonprofits around the world, said Phil Reitinger, CEO and president of Global Cyber Alliance.
OT security programs continue to be underfunded and understaffed, although rapid growth in this sector and new focus from government and organizations show hope, said Alexander Antukh, CISO of AboitizPower, and Mex Martinot, vice preisdent and global head of industrial cybersecurity, Siemens Energy.
Organizations need to look at privacy at a strategic and "almost cellular level" that is in constant motion, said Michelle Dennedy, CEO of PrivacyCode. "It's generative privacy." Dennedy said that nearly 75% of the world is governed by a GDPR-like scheme, and it's time for the U.S. to follow suit.
Threat intelligence is an important component of OT security because it maps the techniques and tactics of threat actors to what they are likely to attack, and it collaborates across teams to cover potential vulnerabilities, according to CISOs Susan Koski and Sapan Talwar.
While multifactor authentication helps solve some of the problems with passwords, we still need to get to being truly passwordless, said Susan Koski, PNC Financial Services. She said adopting the FIDO standards, using zero trust and relying on authentication analysis can all help speed the journey.
With the growing dominance of AI and concerns over its responsible use, is it time to move toward AI ethics by design? Sameer Ahirrao, founder of Ardent Privacy, shared how privacy and regulatory verticals should - and will - shape the future of AI.
In the latest weekly update, Venable's Grant Schneider joins ISMG editors to discuss takeaways from the RSA Conference 2023, the state of software supply chain security post-SolarWinds, safeguards to prevent unintended adverse impacts of AI, and whether AI could be used to write and digest SBOMs.
An Idaho federal court dismissed the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit against data analytics vendor Kochava in a bid by the agency to permanently stop the company from selling geolocation data collected from mobile devices. The agency can file an amended complaint within 30 days.
Pharmaceutical giant Merck's insurers must cover the company's losses involving the 2017 NotPetya malware attack because the "all-risks" property insurance policies' "hostile warlike" exclusions do not apply to the incident, ruled a New Jersey appellate court this week.
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