Why Cyber Resilience Matters - Andrew Harding, Theresa Lanowitz - BSW #361
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What are the barriers to cyber resilience today? Why is it so difficult? And what is coming next, that will generate resilience challenges further down the line?

After five years of focusing on the short- and medium-term future of cybersecurity and edge, this year, LevelBlue wanted to understand what is preventing cyber resilience—and what business leaders are doing about it. Theresa Lanowitz, Chief Evangelist at LevelBlue, joins us to discuss the results of their research.

Segment Resources: LevelBlue.com/futuresreport

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While CISOs are often responsible for technology implementation, they are not getting the support they need at a strategic level. The Accelerator found that 73% of CISOs expressed concern over cybersecurity becoming unwieldy, requiring risk-laden tradeoffs, compared to only 58% of both CIOs and CTOs.

Understanding the C-suite’s business priorities is critical for shaping effective cybersecurity strategies. Identifying how these essential roles look at the business helps to ensure alignment among CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs, as well as the teams that report into them. It’s a key first step towards bolstering cyber defenses, especially with the CEO and Board support.

This segment is sponsored by LevelBlue. Visit https://securityweekly.com/levelbluebh) to learn more about cyber resilience and how to start the conversation in your organization!

Employees spend up to 80% of their working hours in a web browser, and threat actors are increasingly leveraging browsers to target users and initiate attacks. Disrupting the tool employees use for 80% of their job would have massive impact on productivity. Rather than ripping and replacing, enterprises can turn any browser into a secure enterprise browser.

Segment Resources: Menlo homepage: https://resources.menlosecurity.com/videos/browser-security)

Menlo research on three new nation state campaigns: https://www.menlosecurity.com/press-releases/menlo-security-exposes-three-new-nation-state-campaigns)

Every browser should be a secure enterprise browser: https://www.menlosecurity.com/blog/every-browser-should-be-a-secure-enterprise-browser)

Defending against zero-hour phishing attacks: https://www.menlosecurity.com/blog/state-of-browser-security-defending-browsers-against-ever-evolving-zero-hour-phishing-attacks)

This segment is sponsored by Menlo Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/menlobh) or schedule a demo to learn more about the role of browser security in eliminating the risk of highly evasive threats!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-361)