SolarWinds, MOVEit, Knight Capital, and now CrowdStrike. The vendor ecosystem will remain a major playing field for operational disruptions. But are you ready for the next inevitable event? As a CISO, your response to such a question from the board shouldn't be anything less than a resounding "Yes!" Here are five plans of action to help your organization survive the next major IT quake, whether it's due to another rusty security update or a third-party breach.

Is cyber risk insurable? That question is often at the heart of the debate about the future of the cyber insurance industry. One of the primary drivers of that question is the insurance industry’s challenges when managing systemic cyber risk since many believe that systemic cyber risk has the potential to bankrupt the industry. While there hasn’t been a catastrophic cyber incident that has proven the skeptics right, there have been several close calls.

Modern organisations today are increasingly adopting cloud operations to enhance their agility, scalability, and efficiency. By moving to cloud-based platforms, businesses can leverage powerful computing resources without the need to invest heavily in physical infrastructure. This shift not only reduces capital expenditure but also allows organisations to quickly scale operations in response to demand fluctuations.

In the fast-paced world of modern software development, grasping the full scope of an application is essential for managing an application security program. This entails having visibility into all the application assets involved in building the app, knowing their ownership, and understanding their importance to the development process and the broader business.

In the modern workplace, GenAI models have become powerful assets due to their ability to introduce efficiency, up level product innovation, and expedite how teams close the gap on competitors. However, these powerful tools also introduce significant risks related to data security and governance. Companies that aren’t actively figuring out how to govern the GenAI they’ve adopted will inevitably be left vulnerable.

The ubiquitous CrowdStrike incident resulted in a major diversion of resources, with some hard-hit organizations assigning almost all of their IT and security personnel to damage control. As a CISO of an impacted organization, you will likely be required to answer for a lack of resilience to this type of event. To support your decision-making as you reevaluate your resilience budgets, this post outlines four resilience strategies based on key learnings from the CrowdStrike event.

Let’s talk technical debt. It’s that silent, creeping problem many of us have faced—those quick fixes and shortcuts we took to keep things running smoothly. They accumulate over time, leaving us with a tangled web of outdated systems and patchwork solutions. In cybersecurity, this isn’t just a minor annoyance—it’s a ticking time bomb. So, what’s technical debt consolidation?

WannaCry, Log4j, Follina, Spring4Shell — these incidents send shivers down the spines of anybody who works in IT or security. Zero-day vulnerabilities are unknown or unaddressed exploitable software or hardware security flaws that are typically unknown to the vendor and for which no patch or other fix is yet available.

‍ ‍ ‍One of the most simultaneously exciting and challenging aspects of working in the cybersecurity industry is that the risk landscape and management practices never stop evolving. Additional data is continuously being gathered, and new frameworks are constantly developed to help organizations better assess, measure, and secure themselves against threat actors poised to exploit system weaknesses.