Stephanie Goetz

Bank executive reading the Bedel Security blog on her desktop.

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Dive into Secure Cloud Configuration with SCuBA

CISA, the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, began an initiative to help organizations manage cloud risks with the Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) project. While there are many secure cloud configuration guides, such as...

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CrowdStrike and Supply Chain Risk Management—What Can we Learn From this Experience?

Wow, how much technology has changed in the past 15 years? I remember when “vendor” reviews were uncommon, technology was hosted in-house in 95% of...

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Artificial Intelligence–How will it be regulated

Institutions are looking at services using Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as loan decisioning, resume review, and process automation. Using these...

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Hacker Psychology

Many of you have probably heard the adage that one of the best ways to catch a criminal is to think like one. Recently, I discovered several articles...

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NIST Releases Cybersecurity Framework 2.0

The National Institute for Standards and Technology released an update to its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) late February. The CSF was originally...

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The Three Lines of Defense

We have referenced this concept in blog posts previously related to growing your Information Security Program and ensuring independence in your...

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Humans vs. Artificial Intelligence: Who is the better phisher?

What an interesting question and an article published recently gives us the answer, at least for today. Stephanie Carruthers, the chief people hacker...

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Five Findings from the 2023 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report

I was reviewing the 2023 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report this week and wanted to share some findings I found interesting. This report is...

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NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 Draft Updates

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) was initially developed in 2014 and was intended to be a living document, dependent on feedback from...

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Business Email Compromise: Attacks Immune to Multi-Factor Authentication

They’ve come back around…those business email compromises, which were all too common in the late 2010s.

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