When Peter Drucker produced his seminal work, “What Makes an Effective Executive,” in the Harvard Business Review (Drucker, June, 2004), he may not have been writing with cybersecurity in mind. In fact, in 2004, the cybersecurity world had only begun to appear as the many-headed beast it’s become since then. Nonetheless, this text is an excellent guide for executives about incident response and breach management.
Topics: Incident Response, Security Advisory
Phishing via employment-focused social media is on the rise. While performing incident response over the last few months, ProCircular encountered multiple incidents where LinkedIn was used in employee phishing attacks. Several news articles raised awareness of this phishing vector over the last year, and the trend continues with a new wave of attacks by sophisticated threat actors.
Topics: Penetration Testing, Incident Response, Security Advisory
Technology is essential to modern business operations, but cybersecurity risks and data exposure threats come with that. Thankfully, a virtual chief information security officer (vCISO) can bring comprehensive strategic and operational leadership to security for companies that can only afford a part-time person in an executive cybersecurity role. Amid today’s industry-wide shortage of skilled security workers, vCISO could be the best option for finding and retaining critical security leadership.
Topics: Security Advisory
How do you know if you have a solid cybersecurity program? You may have anti-virus installed and you change your computer password quarterly, but how do you know if your security program is truly effective? When you can’t see your gaps, it’s hard to make improvements and even harder to pick up the pieces after a security breach. That’s why Cybersecurity Consultants, like ProCircular’s Andrew Chipman, collect all the information they can, then measure your active security controls against their library of applicable standards.
Topics: Data Protection & Privacy, Hospitals & Health Care Systems, Manufacturing, Security Advisory, Compliance & Governance
New to the world of cybersecurity and wondering where to even begin? Ever wonder what it takes to become a professional hacker? Varying levels of IT knowledge and understanding? Everybody must start somewhere, and here is your chance! Reimagine your career as an Information Security Specialist and stop wasting your time with "what ifs." Allow yourself to grow and shine in a field that you are passionate about. Outreach your potential with this fantastic new course!
Topics: Security Advisory