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By Rick Howard
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It’s time to get off the treadmill: Why you should understand adversary playbooks
Flipping the equation on known adversaries by developing and deploying controls at locations on the intrusion kill chain designed specifically for these known playbooks will increase a company’s ability to block an attack. The...
Having a boardroom conversation about cybersecurity and material risk
Those who embrace a material risk approach to addressing cyber threats will command the attention of senior leaders and steadily drive improvements into their organization’s security posture.
4 things CISOs should stress to the board of directors about cloud security
It's essential for CISOs to get involved in the cloud conversation, so that they can communicate to those at the highest level of the organization why security should not be an afterthought.
On cybersecurity and IT teams of the future, we'll all be SREs
Organizations that adopt the devsecops model will outperform their competitors that don’t.
The impact of DevOps on your bottom line
DevOps is the most important innovation to the IT sector since the invention of the personal computer. During Cybersecurity Awareness Month and beyond, DevOps is a philosophy to which security practitioners should pay attention.
Network defender innovation: time to throw out the old best practices
We have reached a tipping point, a point in our community’s evolution where the security vendor mambo is no longer sustainable.
Cybersecurity spend: ROI Is the wrong metric
Think about what your network defenders do throughout the day, every day, in the course of getting their jobs done. Can you describe it in one sentence? How would you characterize the thousands of tasks that the InfoSec team fields...
