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The last few years have seen a dramatic rise in high-profile ransomware cases, leading CISOs to bump ransomware planning to the top of their list of initiatives. However, just as companies have adapted to guard against this threat, ransomware gangs have adapted in turn, employing additional layers of extortion focused on exposing customer data. A…

Any company operating a modern information technology environment can fall victim to system-encrypting ransomware. But not every company has fallen victim. Do companies that experience an operations-impacting ransomware event have poor cybersecurity hygiene? Or is the quality of cybersecurity hygiene not a factor in the frequency of ransomware events? To answer these questions, RiskRecon analyzed…

The prospect of loss motivates us to take precautions to reduce the impact an incident will have. It’s why we have insurance for nearly every aspect of our lives, from health insurance to renter’s insurance to a prenuptial agreement. But, even if you do everything right, something could still go wrong. For retail and hospitality…

As the retail and hospitality industry moves into 2022, what were once unprecedented times have become the new normal, and though many businesses face lingering challenges, the results of this year’s CISO Benchmark Survey also reveal a desire to invest in the digital future. A majority of respondents across all sized companies, from small to…

Our first Member Spotlight of 2022 is Noah Kischuk, a security engineer at PetSmart. Noah joined the PetSmart team in October of 2021, after spending two and a half years with a public state organization pulling double-duty as both systems administrator and incident response analyst. Having earned his degree in information technology with a focus…