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The cyberthreats following in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic are not substantively different from the threats that security professionals have dealt with during other national or global calamities like the Indian Ocean tsunami, Amazon fires, floods, and hurricanes. Sophisticated cybercriminal, state-sponsored threat actors, and hacktivists have always taken advantage of widespread anxieties in times…

This past Sunday, March 8, was International Women’s Day. All weekend, #IWD2020-related posts topped my social feeds. Two posts in particular stood out – one was shared by a fellow cybersecurity professional and features a picture of his daughter, a bright student still in high school, beaming as she shows off a t-shirt that she…

Colin Anderson, global CISO at Levi Strauss & Co., has been with the Retail & Hospitality ISAC since the beginning in 2014, when he and a small group of retail and hospitality organizations came together to develop an intelligence sharing community. As the current RH-ISAC Board Chair, and an IT executive with more than 25…

If there’s one thing that never changes in cybersecurity, it’s this: threat actors will always look for the path of least resistance to gain access to a victim’s network. While companies that collect and maintain personally identifiable information (PII) or protected health information (PHI) are often the preferred targets of threat actors, attackers will target…

Keeping your data safe and protected often seems like an uphill battle. Consistently presenting a hardened attack surface to a would-be attacker and doing so across all the various attack vectors possible is a difficult problem to solve. The attacker only has to be right once, while you and your broader security team have to…