Trump Administration Should Read and Heed Obama Cyber Report

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SIGNAL | January 31, 2017

By Ray Rothrock

As the nation deals with intelligence reports of Russian hacks of the U.S. presidential election, some of us in industry are pondering how President Donald Trump will tackle cybersecurity issues.

He already has a good road map. In December, the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity issued its “Report on Securing and Growing the Digital Economy.” Kudos are in order. It is high time the executive branch dug deeply into cybersecurity issues.

 

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20 Ways to Attract Good Luck

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Inc. | January 30, 2017

If you’ve ever known someone who seems to consistently experience good luck, know this: luck is something you can attract toward yourself. In fact, research has found a correlation between good luck and the right attitudes and choices in life. Check out these quotes from a pile of executives who share their views on how anyone can be luckier….

#14. Be prepared.

“Preparation is a necessary prerequisite to good luck. Good luck occurs when an opportunity presents itself and you are prepared with knowledge, experience, and risk-taking ability. You need knowledge to recognize opportunities among the noise, you need experience to identify the patterns these opportunities often form, and you need the courage to take a chance. What people often say is good luck is simply a good choice based on evidence and risk.”

–Ray Rothrock, chairman and CEO of cybersecurity resiliency company RedSeal.

 

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Cyber-criminals Can Rat on Rippers Using New Reputation Service

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SC MEDIA UK | January 27, 2017

Anyone who has ever spent any time trawling the Dark Web will appreciate what a den of inequity it is. Cyber-criminals use forums as marketplaces to trade in everything from stolen credit cards to exploit kits that help steal those credit cards in the first place.

The trouble is, there doesn’t tend to be much loyalty amongst thieves. “Fraud between cyber-criminals has always been an issue that limited the profitability of their malicious campaigns” the Digital Shadows report states.

Those who commit fraud are often known as rippers, and every transaction within these dark markets now includes a “ripper tax” that decreases the profit for “legit criminals”.

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CEOs Disconnect Between Cyber Security Perception and Reality; Report

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ITP.net | January 11, 2017
The Middle East’s leading technology website

Cybersecurity analytics firm RedSeal has revealed that there is a disconnect between CEOs confidence in cyber defence strategies and actual results.

The survey, which is based on 200 CEOs from various industries, such as technology, finance, manufacturing, government and retail, discovered that 80% of CEOs are confident in their company’s cybersecurity strategies, regardless of the fact that security incidents have increased by 66% year-on-year since 2009.

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RedSeal CEO: Executives Need “Visualization” to Help Determine Cybersecurity Effectiveness

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GOVERNMENT SECURITY NEWS | December 22, 2016

The past two weeks have been affirming ones for Ray Rothrock and his team at RedSeal.

Just hours after his company shared their findings regarding corporate executives and their cyber naivete – including an alarming statistic showing more than 80 percent of CEOs are confident in their companies’ strategies even as cyber incidents continue to rise – officials from Yahoo announced they discovered a breach that originated three years ago and compromised the data of more than a billion users.

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RedSeal Survey: CEOs Remain Confident in Their Companies’ Cybersecurity Measures Despite Increase in Attacks

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GOVERNMENT COMPUTER NEWS | December 20, 2016

RedSeal (www.redseal.net), a leader in the cybersecurity analytics market, today released the results of a CEO study, which surveyed perceptions of – and confidence in – their cybersecurity posture.

The study found that more than 80 percent of CEOs are very confident in their firm’s cybersecurity strategies, despite the fact that security incidents have surged 66 percent year-over-year since 2009 according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 2017 Global State of Information Security Survey.

 

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What Did Yahoo Know? And When Did They Know It?

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SC MAGAZINE | December 16, 2016

Yahoo’s billion-user breach calls the company’s security practices into question.

A second massive and “distinct” Yahoo breach – affecting more than one billion users – that was disclosed Wednesday has raised a number of questions, primarily why the internet company didn’t suss out the intrusion earlier, how to mitigate a troubling pattern of attacks, and what this second disclosure might mean for Verizon’s impending acquisition of Yahoo….

…Those companies with greater visibility into their networks better position themselves “to address the concerns of consumers, business partners and shareholders” after an attack, RedSeal CEO and Chairman Ray Rothrock told SC Media. “Digital resilience – the ability to battle the bad guys when they are inside your network, continue your operations staying in business and protect high value assets like customer data – is the new gold standard,” said Rothrock, adding that “digital resilience scores – similar to credit worthiness scores – [could] provide a benchmark and support a cyberstrategy for improvement.”

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RedSeal Recognized as Best Cyber Operational Risk Intelligence by GSN Homeland Security Awards Program

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Government Security News | Dec 19, 2016

Government Security News announced today that RedSeal has been recognized for Best Cyber Operational Risk Intelligence as part of its 8th annual Homeland Security Awards Program.

Judging in this category is based on a combination of increase in client organization’s security, technological innovation or improvement, filling a recognized government IT security need, and the flexibility of a solution to meet current and future organizational needs.

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Survey Roundup: “Naive” CEOs Put Firms at Cyberattack Risk

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WALL STREET JOURNAL | December 16, 2016

CEO Disconnect: A survey of 200 chief executives by cybersecurity analytics firm RedSeal and data company 72 Point found 80% of the respondents operate with “cyber naiveté” that exposes their companies as ripe cyberattack targets. So while 80% of the CEOs said they were confident in their company’s cybersecurity strategies, half still prioritized the outdated view of keeping hackers out of their networks compared to 24% who are taking steps to deal with hackers who already have breached their networks.

“CEOs’ confidence reflects a disconnect with the reality of increased cyberattacks and the massive financial losses associated with them,” the survey report concluded. “In addition, their confidence is based on a strategy determined to be insufficient and out of date more than two years ago.”

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Survey: CEOs Lack Metrics, Data on Cybersecurity

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CYBERSCOOP | December 13, 2016

More than 8 in 10 American CEOs say they plan to spend more on cybersecurity next year, even though nearly 9 in 10 say they need a better way to measure the effectiveness of what they’re already spending.

The data come from a new survey of 200 U.S. CEOs released Tuesday by RedSeal, the cybersecurity analytics firm.

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