The Best Defense Against Cyber Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of.

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.

Cybercriminals are always on the lookout for opportunities to profit from security weaknesses. Meanwhile, the COVID pandemic lead accelerated cloud transformation has rendered many of the assumptions of legacy security approaches obsolete. Enterprises are realizing that modern cyber-attacks won’t be stopped by a purely preventive strategy. In fact, it’s almost a given that with sufficient time, motivation, and resources an attacker will always find a point of entry.

Unfortunately, most businesses are making the fundamental mistake when it comes to authentication and are thinking inside-out, but by thinking outside-in, they would automatically put the Customer first. Until now, strong (and not so strong) authentication to services seems to have been driven by an inside-out way of thinking. The institutions think about what works best for them: what fits into their infrastructure; what is the cheapest yet compliant approach? For customers, this means that they must use what their service provider offers to them. Companies must also be aware of insider risks and by implementing a Zero Trust approach of ‘never trust, always verify’, they can better secure the access to their assets. In this KuppingerCole webinar, we will address the following.

The medical/healthcare industry accounted for more than 23 percent of total cybersecurity breaches*. But, keeping up-to-date with HIPAA requirements to help protect data can be difficult. And selecting technologies so your organization can implement HIPAA security controls to comply with HIPAA regulations can be overwhelming. We can help you break it down. In this webinar we will walk through: The current state of HIPAA compliance, and how businesses are stacking up. Top reasons for HIPAA compliance failures and how to avoid them.