Summarily firing workers who have access to national secrets is creating a nearly unprecedented environment for classified data exposure, writes CIA Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal awardee Christopher Burgess.
Nation-state led disinformation attacks might seem to fall outside the purview of the average CISO, but make no mistake, they can affect every enterprise.
While the UN, the EU, and the US and its individual states all push to place limits and restrictions on AI, what’s emerging is a patchwork quilt that security leaders need to stay on top of.
Given the deluge of news about hacks and attacks, cybersecurity’s focus on outside threats is understandable, but woe be to the CISO who doesn’t address inside risks early and often.
With so many software agents in today’s IT ecosystems, epic fails like CrowdStrike’s are an inevitability. Make sure your teams are prepared by investing in preparation and rethinking dependencies.
There is plenty of intelligence that can be gathered from call data records if you know where to look. Spy agencies have been doing it effectively for years.
China and other nation-state bad actors are probing the defenses of critical infrastructure worldwide and legacy or outdated systems are prime targets. The time to mitigate that risk is now.
For CISOs facing a myriad of challenges in an ever-expanding threat environment, making the hiring process more realistic would bring some welcome relief.