It’s late Friday evening and Tom (your average everyday employee) has worked diligently to meet project deadlines and follow up with customers before his much-anticipated weeklong vacation. Exhausted from burning the midnight oil and juggling multiple tasks, he’s eager to wrap up his work and enjoy a well-deserved break. As Tom completes his last remaining task, he is greeted with one final email before signing off for the week.

I hear a lot of people compare securing their IT networks to how they would secure a house. But when most people turn the lock on their front door at night, they feel safe enough to go to bed and sleep peacefully.

With digital transformation having taken a front seat over the past 3 years due to a global shift in how people do business, cloud reliance and breaches have skyrocketed. According to G2, half of all organizations are currently cloud native or cloud enabled. It’s not just a matter of accomplishing work, either – it’s storage for vital digital assets.

At CISO Global, we’ve been using a platform with clients for several years to help them manage their security programs. So, maybe “introducing” isn’t really the right word. Built out of our own need for something we couldn’t find on the market, Argo Security Management helps security program managers do what they do every day, only better and faster.

A basic Google search for the term “cybersecurity” will turn up dozens of competing advertisements for companies promising to solve all your security woes and keep attackers at bay with their version of a “technology silver bullet” – the end all be all that you must, according to them, purchase right now. It’s not that technology isn’t essential to your security strategy; it’s vital!

Even before the fiasco at Silicon Valley Bank, financial institutions were under tremendous scrutiny from regulators. How could they not be? Banks are among the oldest known targets for theft, and in a digital age, the best way to extract money is going to be either straight cyber-theft from existing accounts or ransomware. IT systems that house customers’ financial data can be architected with the right security controls in place to protect that data to the highest standard.

ChatGPT has been taking the World by storm, but it’s bringing with it issues around cybersecurity, data protection, and data privacy. IT leaders and business leaders are looking to create policies that will help protect their people and corporate assets, but so few people really understand the technology well enough to grasp and weigh the benefits, the concerns, and implications for the cybersecurity industry, in general.

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) has been around for a few years. And, in its short tenure, it has, itself, matured. The current version of the CMMC is 2.0, released in November 2021. In the latest version of the model, the original five-level model hierarchy was collapsed into three distinct levels: Foundational, Advanced, and Expert.

While a number of organizations have moved back to an in-person work model, some employees are pushing back and leaving for jobs that will allow them to work from home (WFH). Having become accustomed to the advantages of a WFH model, employees have a lower tolerance for inconveniences like time and money spent on commutes, being away from loved ones for long hours, packing lunches, and having to dress for an office environment.