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19 Cybersecurity Trends Every CISO Must Prepare for in 2023

We saw numerous cybersecurity breaches in 2022. The attacks became more sophisticated, the bots got sneakier, and the cost of breaches multiplied. Yet, enterprises were underprepared to deal with the well-known threats. With the rise of new technologies and the increased adoption of remote work, cybercriminals have quickly adapted their tactics. They are now targeting businesses in ways never seen before.

CISO playbook: 3 things to consider when establishing a security culture

Establishing a thriving security culture across your organization will rely heavily on your developer teams. Therefore, engaging with developers early and often while you build your security program is vital. In this playbook for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), we explore how to build a security culture across your organization by considering the following three things.

8 Best Practices for CISO Effectiveness in 2023

The third quarter of 2022 was challenging for government and corporate servers across the globe — we witnessed a 70% increase in data breaches over the second quarter’s numbers. Considering that security lapses are mainly on the shoulders of CISOs, it’s vital to know the instruments for improving their effectiveness. This blog post outlines a white paper written by former Gartner analyst Jonathan Care.

CIO vs. CISO vs. CPO: What's The Difference?

Businesses been forced to step up their approach to security and privacy in the past few years due to: This growing digital complexity has led to the evolution of three vital executive-level positions: CIO, CISO and CPO — the Chief Information Officer, the Chief Information Security Officer and the Chief Privacy Officer. As three separate executive-level positions within companies centered around technology and cybersecurity, the lines between CIO, CISO and CPO can get blurry.

Lacework's Andreas Schneider: How to adapt as a CISO and the value of security failures

In this episode of the Future of Security Operations podcast, Thomas interviews Andreas Schneider - the Field CISO EMEA at Lacework. Leveraging its data-driven platform and cloud-native application protection solution, Lacework helps organizations make sense of immense amounts of security data with minimal effort.

ICYMI: 3 Takeaways from a Former Healthcare CISO on Managing Cloud Data Security Risks

Last month, we hosted a webinar with our CISO, Karim Beldjilali, who was formerly the CISO of Rightway a healthcare startup. Karim shared important security lessons for healthcare organizations leveraging cloud applications across their workforce. We briefly share the highlights below.

The CISO's Guide to Application Security Innovation

Threat actors operate by an ironclad rule: If it’s important to businesses, it’s important to them. And they certainly understand the crucial business role of applications. Applications are now the number one attack vector, while software supply chain attacks increased 650 percent in a year. Clearly, if you don’t already have a modern application security program, you need to build one. But how do you make sure that your program will be effective?

Hello CISO - Episode 8: Common Sense Security Policies and Bullshit Ones

The best policies for security aren’t always the policies that end up in the company security manual. Why? In this episode, Troy explores the difference between good security policies and CYA security policies… and how to close the gap between the two. Hello CISO is a collaboration between Troy Hunt and the people who build the world's most trusted enterprise password manager. To learn more, visit 1Password.com/business, and don’t forget to subscribe to be notified of new episodes.

36% of CISOs see the shortage of skilled workers as their key cybersecurity challenge

According to Cybersecurity Ventures, it is estimated that 3.5 million security analyst positions remain unfilled. It’s no surprise, then, that more than a third of CISOs find the skills shortage to be their primary challenge, according to the ThoughtLab study Cybersecurity Solutions for a Riskier World.