With economic sanctions being levied by the US against Iran and a trade war heating up with China, some security experts are cautioning that attacks targeting US critical infrastructure may be inevitable. Are electric utilities prepared to defend themselves and their facilities against these attacks?

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. Things have been busy; Bitsight released a great report authored by yours truly on CISA’s KEV catalog. It’s really great if I do say so myself so I highly recommend going and giving it a glance.

More enterprise business leaders are beginning to understand that cybersecurity risk equates to business risk—and getting a clearer sense of the impact that cyber exposures can have on the bottom line. Consider the MGM Resorts and Clorox Company cybersecurity incidents that occurred last year. Both suffered considerable attacks, reportedly led by the Scattered Spider cybercriminal group, causing widespread business disruption and substantial financial losses.

Exposure management tooling can act as an excellent source of truth for cybersecurity leaders as they communicate risk up to the board level. The visibility and data streaming from exposure management solutions makes it easier for CISOs to track security performance over time, quantify improvements in security maturity levels, establish better financial quantification of cyber risk and ensure the organization's exposure levels match up with industry averages.

KEV! KEV! KEV! No, you aren’t standing outside a frat house while some college kids encourage their buddy Kevin to finish his beverage. Rather, it’s the sound of people extolling the virtues of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities(KEV) Catalog.