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Three Reasons Why You Should Quantify Third-Party Cyber Risk

Sep 29, 2022 By Anna Sarnek In SecurityScorecard

The spotlight on cyber risk quantification (CRQ) has raised its status to the top of the hypercycle, but with fame comes scrutiny and criticism. Security analysts and practitioners debate the validity of each model framework, along with the data used when modeling cyber risk. Despite this debate, there is a unifying consensus that knowing the possible range of the financial impact of a cyber event is far more optimal than flying blind.

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Ruthlessly Prioritize

Sep 29, 2022 By SecurityScorecard In SecurityScorecard
SecurityScorecard Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Sam Kassoumeh shares Tip #4 from our ebook, 5 Ways to Secure Your Organization in Turbulent Times: Ruthlessly prioritize to keep your organization secure. Teams are drowning in too much information, all of which appears on the surface to be “blinking red.” To calm the noise and allow security professionals to quickly focus on areas that make the biggest impact securing the enterprise, learn how to quickly highlight the most meaningful, critical threats.#TakeControlWithSSC
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SecurityScorecard Partners with JCDC to Democratize Continuous Monitoring and Cybersecurity Risk Management

Sep 28, 2022 By Devin Lynch In SecurityScorecard

Cybersecurity is a team sport, and SecurityScorecard is proud to partner with the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) to share cyber threat information in defense of public and private critical infrastructure.

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The Role of AI/ML and Automation in CyberSecurity

Sep 28, 2022 By SecurityScorecard In SecurityScorecard
Let’s talk about having automation tools and AI/ML for cyber security. To combat the bad guys trying to break into your environment all the time, you need tools that can: In fact, you must automate 99% of your alerts because if humans have to do it, they will feel overloaded and make mistakes. But you can’t replace human judgment. It’s like flying a plane. Most of the time, it flies on autopilot. But at crucial moments like take off, landing, or when there’s a thunderstorm, the pilot disengages the autopilot and actively takes the wheel.
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3 Best Practices to Save Yourself Zero-Day Exploits

Sep 26, 2022 By SecurityScorecard In SecurityScorecard
52% of attacks in 2021 began with a zero-day exploit. Here are 4 things you can do to make sure your organization is safe: Understand your attack surfaces from the outside. You need to understand how your external attack surface looks because that's how attackers break in. Have a patching program on hand. When a patch comes out from a software vendor, apply it as soon as possible. Then, rescan your entire attack surface to confirm that it’s applied properly. Build your network with resilience in mind.
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Optimize and Automate

Sep 22, 2022 By SecurityScorecard In SecurityScorecard
SecurityScorecard Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Sam Kassoumeh shares Tip #1 from our ebook, 5 Ways to Secure Your Organization in Turbulent Times: Optimize and automate your business ecosystem risk management (aka your third-party risk management) program - to save time and reduce risk.Your security posture is never just your security posture. In this hyperconnected cloud ecosystem, it’s a combination of your own, your vendors’, their vendors’, and so on. Learn how the cyber health of your ecosystem can grow trust and integrity with your clientbase, and also maintain business continuity.
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Enable Faster Business Growth

Sep 21, 2022 By SecurityScorecard In SecurityScorecard
Improving your organization’s cybersecurity posture increases trust with your clients and partners, and enables faster business growth. In times of economic uncertainty when budgets tighten, it’s critical to make that connection. In this video series, SecurityScorecard Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Sam Kassoumeh shares tips from our ebook, 5 Ways to Secure Your Organization in Turbulent Times, on how security teams can reduce risk by over 85% while ensuring that security investments deliver tangible value.
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Key Cybersecurity KPIs to Report to the Board

Sep 21, 2022 By SecurityScorecard In SecurityScorecard
As a CISO, you need to talk to your board members in their language. Here are 2 hacks to do that: Speak in terms of financial cyber risk quantification. Don’t tell them, “I deployed the Prolexic solution to mitigate DDoS attack on 121.1.2.3/24 network.” That won’t make an impact on them. Tell them, “I'm going to save potentially up to $5 million in an outage by spending $200,000 on a device to mitigate ransomware attacks.” Compare your organization with competitors.
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