By Denson Todd, Director of Cyber Risk Services, SSIC 2018 is a new era of security. Or is it? At the beginning of 2017, there was a sense that recent data breaches had finally launched cybersecurity into a boardroom conversation, … Continued
By Denson Todd, SSIC Director of Cyber Risk Services “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it,” stated Warren Buffett. While I don’t dispute Mr. Buffett’s business wisdom overall, I wonder – does this … Continued
By Denson Todd, Director of Cyber Risk Services, SSIC I’m going to be drafting off a previous blog, “How Bad is It?,” by my colleague Bob Vescio. In Bob’s blog, he describes some of the current issues in cyber … Continued
By Robert Vescio, SSIC Managing Director In my previous post, “How Bad Is It (Part I),” I discussed how I use cybersecurity research reports to calibrate my understanding of what is truly going on in the world. I noted that … Continued
By Leonardo Scudere, Managing Director, The Americas, SSIC As it is already widely known, WannaCry Ransomware has impacted up to 200,000 systems in more than 150 countries around the world. Of this total, Russia appears as the most affected country with 113,692 … Continued
By Bob Vescio, Managing Director, SSIC Well, it is that time year again. Most of the well-known cybersecurity research reports have been published. I am referring to the reports that aggregate and summarize the cybersecurity stats from the 2016 calendar year, … Continued
By Thomas J. Lyden, Managing Director, SSIC In the 20 plus years I’ve been in the cyber business, the technology has never ceased to amaze me. That being said, technology alone is not the answer. When you follow the money, … Continued
In the spirit of the holiday season, here is a little analogical tribute to a Christmas classic. As a security professional, do you feel like one of the village crowd chasing the elusive gingerbread man?
In my first post in this series, I discussed why it is so important to move away from compliance and/or regulatory intuition and media-based decision making for how we understand and address risk in our companies.
Don’t read the title and tune out thinking you have got this one covered. Let’s start with a story and see if we can’t build some common ground for this series before we move on. You’re a decision maker in your company, or at least you have the authority to influence decisions within your company.
