What Is a CISO? Chief information security officers (CISOs) are people responsible for managing and ensuring the protection of an organization’s information. This role may be a stand-alone position or be included under the responsibilities of the vice president (VP) of security or the chief...
or ISOC—is an in-house or outsourced team of IT security professionals dedicated to monitoring an organization’s entire IT infrastructure 24x7. Its mission is to detect, analyze and respond to security incidents in real-time. This orchestration of cybersecurity functions allows the SOC ...
NIST ensures that companies not only follow the best practices but also have well-tested practical cybersecurity solutions. The NIST cybersecurity framework is formed around 5 core functions: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover. Among their initiatives is NCCoE. the National Cybersecurity...
CSO Executive Sessions: Guardians of the Games - How to keep the Olympics and other major events cyber safe 07 Aug 202417 mins CSO and CISO CSO Executive Sessions: How should software solution providers keep themselves and their enterprise clients safe?
Nonrepudiation means that a user cannot deny (that is,repudiate) having made a transaction—such as altering data or sending a message—because the user needed to passauthenticationto perform the transaction in the first place. While not technically part of the CIA triad, nonrepudiation does comb...
Multifunction SOC (SOC/NOC): A dedicated SOC, employed with staff who perform both SOC and NOC (Network Operations Center) functions. Virtual SOC: No dedicated on-premise facility, usually managed by part-time employees or an MSSP who respond to major security incidents and alerts. SOCaaS (SO...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is software designed to manage and integrate the functions of core business processes such as finance, human resources, supply chain, and inventory management into one system. ERP systems store highly sensitive information and are, by definition, a mission critical ...
Zero Trust in the Real World: A Typical Example To show how Zero Trust works in the real world, let's imagine a large company, "AcmeCo.," has set up Zero Trust Architecture. Now let’s look at how ZTA functions in real life, step-by-step, with a user named Quinn, who works in...
(CTO).In the past, these titles were almost interchangeable. Now, they are increasingly separate functions and roles. The CTO commonly oversees the company's information systems and technologies. The CIO usually manages research and development,oversees the development of technologiesinto products and...
What Does Threat Intelligence Do? Key functions of threat intelligence include: Enhancing detection capabilities.Threat intelligence integrates with security tools such assecurity information and event management (SIEM)systems, IDS, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions. These integrations provi...