Herman Brown is the Chief Information Officer at SF District Attorney’s Office where he also holds the function of CISO. He’s got private sector experience to match his public sector experience. He re…
Security
Profiles In Scourge: Decisive Moments In Cyber Security
The cyber security community does battle with scourge every day. There are times of course, that scourge wins. But way more often than not, cyber security executives who incidentally, have gained a mo…
Incident Of The Week: Thwarted Ransomware Attack Against Tesla Serves As A Warni…
Early last month, Tesla was notified by an internal employee that they had been approached with an unusual offer. For $ 500,000, the employee was to install ransomware onto the company’s network in ord…
Security Culture
As noted in our recent CISO Strategies & Tactics for Incident Response, establishing a security culture with clear communication is an imperative. Some say awareness is simply the first step and that…
Compliance vs. Security
The CISO role is tasked with balancing compliance directives with security objectives. Thus, we turned to the CSHub community to calibrate the scale that measures that balance.
Credential Stuffing In The Media Industry
The impact of credential stuffing attacks is wide reaching and cannot be overstated. As long as usernames and passwords exist, criminals are going to target them, placing
consumers, organizations, an…
Change In Cyber Security Employment
19.1% of talent has been let go. Nearly 50% of the cyber security community has not changed their approach. Whether externally imposed, or self-imposed- top cyber security talent are reevaluating empl…
Incident Of The Week: Social Media Data Scraped And Found Unprotected Online
A database of 235 million social media profiles were found unsecured by researchers with Comparitech. While data scraping is technically legal, it goes against the terms of use for the brands affected…
How CISOs Follow The Money
The Crown Jewels, Internal Dollars, Funded Adversaries, VC Money, Value At Risk, Business Alignment shared as options of how to follow the money. Also suggested are a few ways to protect the organizat…
Incident Of The Week: Russia’s Cyber Threat Du Jour Prompts The FBI And NSA To R…
Russian cyber threats made the news again when the FBI and NSA released a statement about the new Fancy Bear malware Drovorub.

