When President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring all federal agencies to ramp up and improve their cybersecurity efforts, it immediately raised the question about whether these requirements would trickle down to state and local governments. Although the order covers only federal agencies, IT organizations across the public sector should expect this to prompt changes in security requirements and strategies.
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If the last year has proven anything, it’s that there is no short-term fix for the ransomware plague. Patching, detection, remediation, off site backups, and quick incident response are all vital, but none of them alone or all of them together is a guaranteed answer to the problem. The road to a true solution will be long and will require serious collaboration between enterprise defenders, government agencies, and law enforcement to disrupt the ransomware ecosystem.
As ransomware has progressed to the level of becoming a national security concern in the past year, the efforts of government agencies have moved from raising awareness and encouraging basic security practices as preventative measures, to tracking down ransomware operators and attempting to disrupt the technical and payment infrastructures. That has led to some notable successes in identifying some ransomware groups and even forcing some to abandon their operations, but prosecutions have been hard to come by,
How the post-pandemic world will challenge CISOs
More permanent remote workers, requirements for protecting health data, and a more dangerous threat landscape await security teams as the COVID crisis ends. Credit: Dreamstime
CISOs will have to manage new security challenges in a post-pandemic world. Reconfigured workplaces and employee health considerations, as well as increased threats, have been foisted on organisations just as many security workers are feeling tired and stressed out, according to experts speaking at last week’s
RSA Conference. When COVID first hit, we jumped in like we do insecurity all the time. We went into firefight mode, and we re good at it, and we practice it, Helen Patton, advisory CISO of Cisco Secure and former CISO at Ohio State University, said. We re hitting the cadence of this going on for so long. You can feel the stress; you can feel the overworked-ness.
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