GitHub Hires Former Cisco Executive Mike Hanley as Chief Security Officer
Software development platform GitHub announced on Wednesday that it has hired Mike Hanley as its new Chief Security Officer (CSO).
Hanley joins GitHub from Cisco, where he served as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). He arrived at Cisco via...
Reddit Names Allison Miller as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Social news community site Reddit announced on Monday that it has hired Allison Miller as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and VP of Trust.
Miller joins Reddit from Bank of America where she most recently served as SVP Technology Strategy...
SecurityWeek Names Ryan Naraine as Editor-at-Large
SecurityWeek has named Ryan Naraine as Editor-at-Large, adding a veteran cybersecurity journalist and podcaster to its editorial team.
Naraine joins SecurityWeek from Intel Corp., where he most recently served as Director of Security Strategy and leader of the chipmaker’s security...
Why Cyber Security Should Be at the Top of Your Christmas List
Santa has been making his list and checking it twice. Will you (and your organization's cyber security practices) make the Nice list? Or did you fall on the naughty side this year?
Either way, now is the best time to...
United States Federal Government’s Shift to Identity-Centric Security
Across the globe, government agencies have begun transformation and modernization of their IT ecosystem to deliver services in an agile, secure, and timely efficient manner, this means broad and rapid adoption of cloud infrastructure and services at pace we've...
How Extreme Weather Will Create Chaos on Infrastructure
Extreme weather events will soon become more frequent and widespread, devastating areas of the world that typically don’t experience them and amplifying the destruction in areas that do. We have already seen devastating wildfires and an increase in hurricane...
BSIMM11 Observes the Cutting Edge of Software Security Initiatives
If you want to improve the security of your software—and you should—then you need the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM), an annual report on the evolution of software security initiatives (SSIs). The latest iteration, BSIMM11, is based on...
Sustaining Video Collaboration Through End-to-End Encryption
The last several months have been the ultimate case study in workplace flexibility and adaptability. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread emergency activation plans through March and April, businesses large and small have all but abandoned...
Will Robo-Helpers Help Themselves to Your Data?
Over the coming years, organizations will experience growing disruption as threats from the digital world have an impact on the physical. Invasive technologies will be adopted across both industrial and consumer markets, creating an increasingly turbulent and unpredictable security...
Securing the Hybrid Workforce Begins with Three Crucial Steps
The global shift to a remote workforce has redefined the way organizations structure their business models. As executives reestablish work policies to accommodate remote employees well beyond the initially anticipated duration, a new era of work will emerge: the...
A New Strategy for DDoS Protection: Log Analysis on Steroids
Anyone whose business depends on online traffic knows how critical it is to protect your business against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. And with cyber attackers more persistent than ever – Q1 2020 DDoS attacks surged by 80%...
COVID-19 Aside, Data Protection Regulations March Ahead: What To Consider
COVID-19 may be complicating organizations’ cybersecurity efforts as they shift more of their operations online, but that doesn’t lessen the pressure to comply with government regulations that are placing increased scrutiny on data privacy.
Despite the pandemic, companies are obligated...
SecurityWeek Extends ICS Cyber Security Conference Call for Presentations to August 31, 2020
The official Call for Presentations (speakers) for SecurityWeek’s 2020 Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cyber Security Conference, being held October 19 – 22, 2020 in SecurityWeek’s Virtual Conference Center, has been extended to August 31st.
As the premier ICS/SCADA cyber security conference,...
SecurityWeek to Host Cloud Security Summit Virtual Event on August 13, 2020
Enterprise Security Professional to Discuss Latest Cloud Security Trends and Strategies Via Fully Immersive Virtual Event Experience
SecurityWeek will host its 2020 Cloud Security Summit virtual event on Thursday, August 13, 2020.
Through a fully immersive virtual environment, attendees will be able...
Avoiding Fuelling the Cyber-Crime Economy
We all know that the prices of key commodities such as oil, gold, steel and wheat don’t just impact individual business sectors as they fluctuate according to supply and demand: they also power international trading markets and underpin the...
Dairy Giant Lactalis Targeted by Hackers
France-based dairy giant Lactalis revealed last week that it was targeted by hackers, but claimed that it had found no evidence of a data breach.
The company said a malicious third party attempted to breach its computer network, but it...
Crypto firm Tether says it won’t pay $24 million ransom after being threatened with document leak
Controversial cryptocurrency developer Tether says it will not give in to extortionists who are demanding a 500 Bitcoin ransom payment (currently worth approximately US $24 million).
Mysterious Macintosh Malware
This is weird:
Once an hour, infected Macs check a control server to see if there are any new commands the malware should run or binaries to execute. So far, however, researchers have yet to observe delivery of any payload...
What Did I Just Read? A Conversation With the Authors of '2034'
Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis discuss their inspirations, personal experiences, and what keeps them up at night.
2034, Part VI: Crossing the Red Line
“Eventually, the Americans would find them. But by then it would be too late.”
