Caron Beesley

The global cybersecurity market is currently worth $173 billion and expected to grow to $270 billion by 2026. Yet as organizations invest more in security technology, a new global survey by IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute suggests that security response efforts are “hindered by the use of too many security tools, as well as a lack of specific playbooks for common attack types.” Of those surveyed, 74% of respondents report that their response plans are ad-hoc, applied inconsistently, or...

Working from home introduces significant cyber risk to any organization. However, recent events reveal that it’s not a case of “if” but “when” bad actors will exploit the rampant vulnerabilities on home networks.
As BitSight reported last week, a group of Russian hackers called “Evil Corp” have targeted large U.S. corporations with sophisticated malware injected into remote computers connected to the corporate network.
Yet despite increased attacks, a study by IBM and Morning Consult reveals ...

Blog for Let's Talk Self Driving an information website that advocates for self-driving vehicles. In partnership with National Safety Council and Waymo (self-driving company).

“Celebrity” vulnerabilities like BlueKeep attract the attention and resources of security teams, often hogging the spotlight, allowing other, less visible, but just as dangerous, weaknesses that could be exploited by bad actors to go unnoticed. IoT devices are a perfect case in point.
Last week, Infosecurity Magazine reported on the discovery of a series of new zero-day vulnerabilities, dubbed “Ripple20”, that puts hundreds of millions of IoT devices at risk. Found in power grids, data center...

Last year’s Capital One data breach ranks as one of the largest confirmed breaches ever, exposing the personal data of more than 100 million Capital One customer accounts stored in the cloud.
Almost a year later, the story hasn’t gone away. Last month, a U.S. magistrate judge ruled that Capital One must provide forensic details about the hack to attorneys representing a group of customers suing the bank.
As fallout from the breach continues, here are key lessons security and business leaders ...

For years cybersecurity spending has experienced stratospheric growth. Then COVID-19 hit and forecasts took a grim turn.
As a result of the economic impact of the pandemic, Gartner estimates there will be a $6.7 billion decrease in global security spending in 2020. Meanwhile, Forrester warns security teams to expect lean budgets and the trimming of already-thin staff, reports Dark Reading.
The truth is, the era of infinite security spending was coming to an end even before the coronavirus str...

While many companies have succeeded in creating a sustainable remote workforce, this “new normal” environment remains particularly challenging for security operations teams. Accustomed to working in a physical security operations center (SOC), where collaboration and teamwork is key, security teams must find ways to operate efficiently while working from home.
While this disruption has presented a challenge, it also offers an opportunity for security leaders to start rethinking how their infr...

Driven by the need to collaborate across remote work environments, COVID-19 has sped up the adoption of cloud services by many government agencies. Yet, questions about security remain.
For a variety of reasons, government agencies often lag years behind their private sector counterparts in cloud adoption. A common talking point among program managers is that agency figures have previously been tentative about moving to the cloud because they don’t understand cybersecurity, are not cloud expe...

As the U.S. biomedical community rushes to combat COVID-19, the FBI announced last week that, in a bid to win the race for a vaccine or cure, state-sponsored Chinese hackers are targeting U.S. researchers in an attempt to “obtain valuable intellectual property and public health data related to vaccines, treatments, and testing.”
China is not alone in its nefarious intelligence-gathering efforts. On May 8th, Reuters reported that Iran-linked hackers had targeted Gilead Sciences, makers of the ...

From design, construction, to facilities management, the need for closer ownership is clear.
Who’s got your data? For anyone in the business of campus design, construction and facilities management, data is a vital asset. Information about each stage of these projects needs to be in the right hands, at the right time to ensure projects are completed on-schedule and on-budget. Yet too often access to data is restricted by systems that don’t talk to each other, legacy data ownership practices t...