As more employees are being forced to work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, security teams are scrambling to ensure that they know what assets are being used to access the corporate networks. That challenge for those who had no contingency plan for employees working outside of their normal, assigned workspaces is considerable. Security information and event management … [Read more...] about Are you ready for COVID-19?
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Q&A: Tips & tricks for asset management
It was not so long ago that IT asset management consisted of an individual walking around a company with clipboard in hand, putting numbered stickers on computers, printers and other physical assets, then listing that number on a form. That approach was hardly sufficient then and today it’s absolutely … [Read more...] about Q&A: Tips & tricks for asset management
Life as a CISO: A Q&A with Ray Espinoza of Cobalt.io
We were fortunate to get an hour with Ray Espinoza, Director of Security at Pentest as a Service company, Cobalt.io, as he joined our very own CISO, Lenny Zeltser, for an informal Q&A. We’ve highlighted a few big ideas here, but you’ll need to catch the entire webinar available on-demand for all the valuable insights and discussions. THE JOURNEY TO COBALT Ray’s career … [Read more...] about Life as a CISO: A Q&A with Ray Espinoza of Cobalt.io
Life as a CISO: Earning information security certifications
There are many ways to attain and maintain information security expertise. The path that one person followed isn’t necessarily appropriate for another. What role do professional certifications play in the process, and what other considerations should you keep in mind when expanding your skills? Here’s what has worked for me. As a practitioner who aims to keep up with … [Read more...] about Life as a CISO: Earning information security certifications
Knowing your assets is job one
Enterprise-level asset management today internalizes just about every major security environment change that has hit Fortune 1000 companies over the past several years: cloud, internet of things (IoT), shadow IT, BYOD, mobile, virtualization, third- and fourth-party data access, and so much more. It transforms asset management into something that was difficult to track into … [Read more...] about Knowing your assets is job one