Ponemon Survey Report: Measuring & Managing the Cyber Risks to Business Operations

As businesses settle into a hybrid world of on-prem, public cloud, private cloud infrastructure with security delivered as a service and all of this overlaid with the concept to Zero Trust, what is left? Companies will have the data they are trying to protect and the identity of the user trying to access something. As life on th

One of the most-heard complaints from security experts is that often they find their work repetitive ("The CFO's laptop has been compromised... again!"), which results in the desire of trying something "new", meaning "leave for another company." Another common complaint is that the work is very compartmentalized, and there are few occasions in which the various security specialists can enjoy working as a team. One activity that can help build a team while improving the security skills of the people involved is participating in Capture the Flag (CTF) hacking competitions. In 2003 at the University of California at Santa Barbara, one of the world's largest attack-defense CTF competitions began and has grown year-after-year, pushing the limits of the players and providing opportunities for better learning. In addition, hacking competitions are a great opportunity for recruiting new talent: CTF participants are highly skilled, well-motivated, and hard-working, which are great traits for a future employee.

Join BSI for a webinar where we’ll explore findings from the 2019 State of the Phish Report by our partner, Proofpoint. It provides the data-driven intelligence you and your team need to manage end-user risk more effectively within your organization. In this webinar, we will explore data related to the following: Tens of millions of simulated phishing emails: Analysis of tens of millions of simulated phishing emails sent to end users over a 12-month period. 16 industries: Comparisons of activities and results from organizations and their employees across 16 industries. Nearly 15,000 survey responses from infosec professionals: Responses reveal the challenges they are facing, their views of the threat landscape, and the actions they’re taking to fend off phishing attacks.

For decades, IT professionals have been fighting malware, hackers, and other threats. Data protection, confidentiality, integrity and availability have long been threatened not only by amateur hackers, but by profit-oriented, well-organised criminals. Victims can usually only react because many of the usual methods for detecting malware require knowledge about specific attack techniques, about the behavior or about signatures of specific malware families.