Why InfoSec Professionals Must Understand Privacy Issues

In addition to having a dedicated individual or team responsible for privacy matters, organizations must ensure their information security and IT staffs are knowledgeable about data privacy issues, says Trevor Hughes, CEO of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.Saying that an organization has a privacy professional is clearly an insufficient answer for managing the risks associated with data in today's enterprises,he says in an interview with Information Security Media Group."What we are seeing across the board in the marketplace is that anyone who touches data is a risk vector when it comes to privacy.
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Securing Microsoft Office 365 in the New Normal. Why Now?

With the widespread adoption of Office 365 and an increasingly mobile workforce, cloud security has become top of mind for most organisations. Traditional security solutions, like enabling MFA, are focused point-in-time assessments and offer limited efficacy since attackers can still hijack authenticated sessions to gain access. It’s time for a more modern approach to cloud security.
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SANS Top New Attacks and Threat Report

Anomali

Each year, the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco features top SANS instructors presenting their look at the new attack techniques currently in use and their projections for future exploits. This fast-paced panel--moderated by Alan Paller and featuring Heather Mahalik, Ed Skoudis and Johannes Ullrich--is one of the highest-rated keynote sessions at the conference. In this webcast, SANS Director of Emerging Technologies John Pescatore will highlight: The top new attacks and threats as defined in that presentation.
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Threat Hunting—A Practical Demonstration

ISACA

Today it is almost considered negligent to wait for an alert from IDS/IPS, firewalls, NAC, and endpoint security products before taking action. For years some of us who ha e been in the industry for a while have engaged in operations where we go out into the environment and actively look for threats to hand off to the IR team to eradicate. Enter the world of threat hunting. We will side step any product marketing and dig deep into what threat hunting actually is. The second half of this webinar will consist of demo of some technical threat hunting operations that anyone can practice sharpening their hunt skills.
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How to Implement a Cybersecurity-first Culture for the Modern Workplace

The shift to the remote and hybrid workplace has presented new opportunities to hackers as they look to exploit weaknesses brought about by unfamiliar work practices, multiple and BYOD devices, and most importantly the busy day-to-day lives of our employees. According to email statistics, the average person receives over 100 emails per day (Earthweb), and with human error the cause of 85% of cyber security breaches (IBM) you can see why email is the number one threat vector.
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