George V. Hulme, Author at Security Boulevard https://securityboulevard.com/author/george/ The Home of the Security Bloggers Network Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:17:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://securityboulevard.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/android-chrome-256x256-1-32x32.png George V. Hulme, Author at Security Boulevard https://securityboulevard.com/author/george/ 32 32 133346385 Cybersecurity Insurance: Signals Maturity to Partners, Improved Security Response https://securityboulevard.com/2024/08/cybersecurity-insurance-signals-maturity-to-partners-improved-security-response/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:17:46 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2028879 security, insurance, cybersecurity, cyber insurance, cybersecurity, insurance

A newly released report, Forrester’s The State of Cyber, 2024 finds about 83% of organizations currently maintain cybersecurity insurance, and such policyholders tend to possess improved ability to detect and respond to attacks.

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Why Policy-as-Code is the Best Way to Streamline Authorization https://securityboulevard.com/2023/11/why-policy-as-code-is-the-best-way-to-streamline-authorization/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 14:00:59 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1997797 policy-as-code SecOps GitLab security policy operational resilience SOC certificate DevSecOps: Beyond Manual Policy Implementation

A Styra survey found that policy-as-code is vital for organizations' preventative security and compliance objectives.

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AI More Helpful Than Harmful in Cybersecurity https://securityboulevard.com/2023/10/ai-more-helpful-than-harmful-in-cybersecurity/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 12:00:36 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1991288 OT, cyberattacks, internet cybersecurity BGP

The majority of of IT security managers see the use of AI in security tools as helpful rather than a threat they must defend against.

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AI Essential to Secure Dev, Successful DevSecOps—Yet Risks Abound https://securityboulevard.com/2023/09/ai-essential-to-secure-dev-successful-devsecops-yet-risks-abound/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:00:48 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1988413 AppSec, AI, API app Google application security AppSec

When finding security vulnerabilities within software built by in-house developers, there’s good reason to believe that development teams, thanks in part to the help of AI tools, are actually “shifting left” when developing secure code. At least, that’s one of the findings from a survey of 1,001 senior technology executives commissioned by GitLab, Inc. The..

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Will Consumers Punish Vendors That Suffer a Data Breach? https://securityboulevard.com/2023/03/will-consumers-punish-vendors-that-suffer-a-data-breach/ Fri, 17 Mar 2023 12:00:07 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1968426 Pepsi PBV data breach deep fakes Astoria Company hack

If a new survey from API and application protection vendor ThreatX is accurate, a majority of U.S. consumers are less likely to work with a company following a data breach. At least, they claim that they are. The ThreatX survey highlighted consumers’ evolving attitudes toward data breach concerns and their purported willingness to pay more..

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Organizations Preparing for Cyberwar https://securityboulevard.com/2023/02/organizations-preparing-for-cyberwar/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 13:00:11 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1961917 Perhaps—just maybe—2022, mainly due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the use of offensive digital operations, will go down as the year executives started taking the threat of cyberwarfare as a realistic risk against their operations. This week, device security platform provider Armis took a stab at quantifying the current state of cyberwarfare and..

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Mitigating the North Korean Cybersecurity Threat https://securityboulevard.com/2023/01/mitigating-the-north-korean-cybersecurity-threat/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 14:00:21 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1951455 CrowdStrike Microsoft outages DDoS

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky recently published an analysis that detailed how a North Korean threat actor, which it called the BlueNoroff group, is stealing cryptocurrency by bypassing the “Mark of the Web” flag security feature within the Windows operating system. Kaspersky’s advisory is only the latest in a string of cybersecurity research pointing to North Korean..

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NIST Completes Satellite Command-and-Control Guidance https://securityboulevard.com/2023/01/nist-completes-satellite-command-and-control-guidance/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:00:31 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1951400 NIST CSF vulnerabilities ransomware

NIST’s popular cybersecurity framework is finally ready for space. Well, not really outer space—but it will be applied to the security of ground satellite command-and-control systems. In recent years, the security of satellites has caught the attention of the military and lawmakers. Col. Jennifer Krolikowski, chief information officer at U.S. Space Systems Command, U.S. Space..

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FDA, MDIC and MITRE Publish Medical Device Threat Modeling Playbook https://securityboulevard.com/2022/12/fda-mdic-and-mitre-publish-medical-device-threat-modeling-playbook/ Thu, 15 Dec 2022 13:00:45 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1948054 CSPM, ASPM, CISA cybersecurity healthcare

Modern medical devices are complex, networked and often vulnerable to attack. With that in mind, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has funded the development of a playbook for threat modeling by the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC) and MITRE. The playbook is designed to help health care organizations and medical device manufacturers identify..

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Health Care Under Cyberattack: Unprotected Medical IoT Devices Threaten Patient Care https://securityboulevard.com/2022/12/health-care-under-cyberattack-unprotected-medical-iot-devices-threaten-patient-care/ Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:00:26 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1948052 health care cybersecurity ransomware

Connected devices bring organizations more information and convenience, but they also increase an organization’s attack surface—and medical devices are no different. According to a survey released by reviews platform provider Capterra, as health care organizations connect more medical devices to their network, they are also attacked more often. Capterra’s 2022 Medical IoT Survey was conducted..

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