Chris Bedel

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6 Questions to Answer Before Hiring a CISO

"We aren't even quite sure what the position should be doing for us..." is a quote from a bank executive that I recently had a conversation with. He was describing some of the frustrations he had with his former CISO. He knew the position was...

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Share the Common Sense Security Framework with your Business Customers

A 2012 Small Business Administration survey in the United States found that 99.7% of U.S. employer firms were small businesses. The sheer number of...

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Analysis: FFIEC's Update to Cyber Assessment Tool Makes "Baseline" Maturity Easier

A just released update to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's Cybersecurity Assessment Tool will help make meeting regulators'...

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CAT 1.1: What are the Changes?

On Wednesday, May 31st, the FFIEC sent out a press release announcing updates to its Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT), which has not been updated...

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Is There Too Much Cybersecurity Technology?

Businesses are suffering from an influx of too much security technology packaged into too many solutions offered by too many vendors, says former RSA...

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Patch your Microsoft Systems now to Protect Yourself from WannaCry Ransomware

The WannaCry ransomware is bad news. It is known to spread like a worm over the LAN once a machine is infected. Microsoft is urging everyone to...

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Are We Relying Too Much On User Awareness In Cybersecurity?

Steven Chabinsky, former Deputy Assistant Directory of Cyber for the FBI, says that we do rely too much on user awareness and we need to do a "180"...

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Cybersecurity in Enterprise Risk Management

If you aren't familiar with Enterprise Risk Management, or ERM for short, you should take some time in the near future to do so. Audits and...

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Cybersecurity And The Board

Juliette Rizkallah recently wrote an article on forbes.com about the evolution of the involvement by the board of directors in cybersecurity. She...

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