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Lessons for Cybersecurity From a Pandemic
/by RedSealBusiness Security Weekly | May 12, 2020
The coronavirus has focused the world’s attention on disease spread like never before. This discussion will draw out some of the parallels that can inform how we do our work in cybersecurity, and that are helpful in communicating with the people who pay the bills. All the new vocabulary around “social distancing”, “contact tracing”, and “flattening the curve” is useful for our discussions in cybersecurity.
15 Effective Cybersecurity Strategies For Your Remote Workforce
/by RedSealForbes | May 12, 2020
10. Know your access points.
The rush to work from home is a situation in which the prepared do better. It’s critical to keep an up-to-date network map to handle whatever comes along. For example, show where your VPN access points are and whether they have the correct access. Most organizations struggle to maintain a reliable map of their changing world, but it can be automated. – Mike Lloyd, RedSeal
Hidden Threats
/by RedSealTahawulTech | May 2020 (Pages 28-30)
With the increasing number of employees bringing their devices to work and utilising new software solutions and cloud services to boost productivity, shadow IT is becoming one of the most common problems companies face today. Dr. Mike Lloyd of RedSeal if one of several industry experts asked about the risks and how organisations can mitigate them.
Security best practices in a time of pandemic
/by RedSealITProPortal | May 6, 2020
In a world where everything is changing, how should a CISO keep up? The big challenge in security, as in so many other fields right now, is uncertainty. How will a recession impact your business? When will people come back to the office? Will they come back? In your rush to support remote workers, did you build out reliable infrastructure that will stand the test of time, or did your organisation rush to make the online equivalent of a shanty town, with jury-rigged connectivity and rushed security controls?
Top 10 Cyber Incident Response Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
/by RedSealDark Reading | May 6, 2020
Automation can make a big difference in the efficacy and efficiency of an IR program. The trick is figuring out just the right level of automation to cut out the low-value manual work while still leaving the tasks better-suited to human judgment in the care of smart analysts.
“Some organizations underautomate and get lost in the slog because IR is hard,” says Dr. Mike Lloyd, CTO of RedSeal. “Others overautomate, not realizing that machine reasoning still falls short and is easily defeated by a human who knows they only need to beat a machine, not another human.”
The new cybersecurity resilience
/by RedSealSC Magazine | May 1, 2020
Is your cybersecurity posture resilient enough to survive a pandemic? You’re about to find out.
The quick spread of COVID-19 has lent urgency to that mission and underscored the importance of building resilience. “Cyber, or digital resilience should be considered essential – like water, gas, and telephone/internet. Maintaining essential services that keep the lights on, keep people operating in their roles, and keep the digital world safe from attack is critical,” says RedSeal CEO Ray Rothrock, who penned the book Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat?
Taking a fresh look at security for the remote workforce
/by RedSealFedScoop Radio | April 30, 2020
Chief information security officers are working diligently to ensure the productivity of temporarily homebound agency employees, while still adhering to the fundamentals of effective cybersecurity practices.
Because employees are connecting from home, often with their own equipment, there is an increased risk of an employee exposing agency networks to a whole host of security risks, says Wayne Lloyd, federal chief technology officer at RedSeal.
4 Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic
/by RedSealDark Reading | April 16, 2020
An epidemiologist-turned-CTO describes the parallels between the spread of a computer virus and the real-world coronavirus.
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I switched from epidemiology to network security as my day job years ago, but today’s pandemic reminds me of the similarities between the two fields. There are many lessons we can take from the real-world virus and apply them to security in the online world.
Ray Rothrock: The Fortune Teller
/by RedSealSpirit Magazine, Texas A&M Foundation | Spring 2020
Ray Rothrock ’77 uses his proven penchant for predicting the future to bolster resilience against cyberattacks and advocate for a nuclear solution to the planet’s energy crisis.
Podcast: US Election Interference Happening Right Now, Virus Plans and more from RedSeal
/by RedSealThe Top | April 8, 2020
Ray Rothrock joins Nathan Latka on the latest episode of “The Top.” Prior to RedSeal he was a general partner at Venrock, one of RedSeal’s founding investors. At Venrock he invested in 53 companies including over a dozen in cybersecurity including Vontu, PGP, P-Cube, Imperva, Cloudflare, CTERA, and Shape Security. He is on the board of Check Point Software Technology, Ltd. an original Venrock investment, and Team8, both Tel Aviv–based companies.