Everyday MBA: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat?

Everyday MBA | May 12, 2018

With Ray Rothrock, Chief Executive Officer

Ray Rothrock discusses his book “Digital Resilience” and what executives, business owners and technical experts should know about potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities and breaches in network and data security. Ray is the CEO at RedSeal, a leader in network modeling and cyber risk scoring. He’s got a masters in nuclear engineering and an MBA from Harvard. Listen for three action items you can use to take advantage of the ideas in this interview.

Cyber-Insurance Can Reshape the Way Organisations Do Security for the Better

Information Age| May 8, 2018 

With Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

With experts now agreed it’s not a case of “if” but “when” your organisation suffers a major breach or outage, the expanding cyber-insurance industry offers a vital way to protect against losses.

Playing the Economic Boom While it Lasts

Chief Executive | May 7, 2018 

Here are 12 ways that U.S. CEOs are taking advantage of the Trump Boom—or should be:

Beef Up R&D

Plant today’s seed corn in new innovation efforts for the best return for the long term, advisers and CEOs say, especially in areas of potentially huge technological returns or disruptions.

“If I’m in an innovation business where I need to constantly reinvent myself or how I manufacture something or need to expand in a unique way, I want to invest in R&D right now,” says Ray Rothrock, CEO of RedSeal, a Sunnyvale, California-based cybersecurity outfit. “If my margins are improving as a result of the tax cuts, I should put that in R&D. It’ll create new, innovative products and jobs and improve your brands. It’s an opportunity that doesn’t come along that often.”

Breaking the Log Jam – Data for Informed Cyber-Insurance

SC Magazine UK| May 2, 2018 

Feat. Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

The problem of cyber-insurance is lack of data for understanding risk: but third party technologies can measure and quantify the defensive state and breach risk of each organisation by using standardised, repeatable yardsticks.

Cyber-security is approaching an inflection point, where several major forces are combining to produce a much-needed breakthrough.  The reason why: cyber-insurance.

Are You Ready for GDPR?

Intelligent CISO | May 1, 2018 | Page 36 -39

Feat. Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

With a recent Veritas study indicating that more than half of organisations are yet to start work on meeting the minimum requirements set by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the clock is well and truly ticking away. The EU’s GDPR comes into force in May so it’s vital that CISOs focus on the impending deadline and look into the future to avoid the significant fines that can be imposed.

Here we speak to industry experts to ask what those companies who have some catching up to do really need to know about demonstrating their compliance to GDPR.

Cyber Security and Defending Your Data – How to Promote Your Digital Resilience

Global Marketing Alliance | May 1, 2018 

By Ray Rothrock, Chief Executive Officer

It might be a grim necessity and a tiresome back-office expense, but tackling cyber security by creating digital resilience should be viewed not as a cost, but as an investment, says Ray Rothrock. Don’t build a wall as defence against cyber attackers, he says – that can prevent growth. Build an army to display how well your brand is continuing to invest in security and can thus be trusted. Here’s how:

More than half of federal IT officials in a new survey say their agencies aren’t keeping pace with evolving cybersecurity threats

A new survey of IT leaders at civilian, defense and intelligence agencies explores how prepared agencies are to continue operating during an attack.

WASHINGTON, D.C.  — Two-thirds of federal IT executives in a new survey say their agencies are moderately-to-highly prepared to withstand a cyberattack and continue to function. But a number of gaps in cybersecurity resilience remain.

Nearly 7 in 10 federal civilian agency IT leaders — and more than half (55 percent) of their defense and intelligence agency counterparts — say their agencies aren’t keeping pace with evolving threats, according to the study.

Though 2 in 3 respondents report their agency “has sufficient tools to identify cyberthreats,” well over half still say their agencies “don’t have all the tools and resources they need in place to respond to cyberthreats,” according to the new study, released by CyberScoop and FedScoop, and underwritten by RedSeal.

The study found about roughly two-thirds of IT officials surveyed say their agency can detect — and more than half say they can respond to — cybersecurity incidents within 12 hours. But tracking “incidents” may belie deeper threats lurking in networks, observed Wayne Lloyd, federal chief technology officer at RedSeal.

The study explored how resilient federal agencies are at withstanding cyberattacks, what tools and activities they rely on most to respond to identify and respond to attacks, and the top investment priorities and concerns of agency officials.

Executives are investing most heavily now in data and network protection tools and threat intelligence, but “they still need help overcoming a talent shortage of cybersecurity professionals,” said Wyatt Kash, SVP of Content Strategy at Scoop News Group, which publishes CyberScoop and FedScoop.

The findings are based on responses from more than 100 prequalified federal agency government IT, cybersecurity and mission, business or program executives. All respondents are involved either in identifying IT and network security requirements, evaluating or deciding on solutions and contractors, allocating budgets, or implementing or maintaining cybersecurity solutions. The study was completed in the first quarter of 2018.

Download the report, Closing the gaps in cybersecurity resilience at U.S. Government agencies,for detailed findings and guidance on how prepared agencies are to continue operating during an attack.

CyberScoop is the leading media brand in the cybersecurity market with more than 350,000 unique monthly visitors and 240,000 daily newsletter subscribers, reporting on news and events impacting technology and top cybersecurity leaders across the U.S.

FedScoop is the leading tech media brand in the federal government market with more than 210,000 unique monthly visitors and 120,000 daily newsletter subscribers, reporting on how top leaders from the White House, federal agencies and the tech industry are using technology to improve government.

 

 

Planning for Digital Resilience is Important

Arabian Reseller | April 28, 2018

Mike Lloyd, the Chief Technology Officer at RedSeal, speaks to Arabian Reseller about the emerging risks in the region and what CXOs need to know about mitigating those risks.

What according to you are the new potential threats and emerging risks in this part of the region?

Reacting to every new threat as it comes along creates an endless treadmill.  It makes more sense to plan for digital resilience – understand your organization by mapping it out so that you can offer an agile response to every new attack. Static defenses are ineffective, but chasing whatever’s trending is equally bad – the goal is flexible, rapid response.

IRS Website Crash Reminder of HealthCare.gov Debacle as OMB Pushes Open Source

FEDWeek | April 20, 2018

Every filing season is a crush for the IRS but this year’s had the added challenge of changes due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed in December – and increasing e-file returns via integrations with vendors such as TurboTax and H&R Block, along with continued declines in operating budget and personnel. It all culminated on Tax Day when the IRS’s processing systems crashed. The error displayed on its website summed it up: “Planed Outage: April 17, 2018 – December 9999.”

School for Startups Radio: Ray Rothrock

School for Startups | April 18, 2018

With Ray Rothrock, Chief Executive Officer

Join host Jim Beach everyday at 2:00pm EST on AMFM247 Radio as he interviews entrepreneurs and great authors that can help you grow your business, or start one. In this episode, he is joined by RedSeal CEO Ray Rothrock, the author of “Digital Resilience,” a non-technical book for management, leaders and really just about anyone interested in getting control of their cyber threat.