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DevSecOps for Startups: Building Cybersecurity into Your Product From the Beginning
If you’re leading a startup, you should prioritize security from the beginning. You want to prevent bad actors from stealing your intellectual property and don't want to turn down business opportunities because you can’t comply with regulations or meet security standards. The fastest and most efficient way to build security into your product is DevSecOps.
3 Questions Every Investor Should Ask About Security Before Giving Money to a Startup
Investing in startups is a risk. The earlier the stage, the more the investment is about promises rather than products, to say nothing of proven business models. Yet startups are worth the investment because funding a successful one can mean a huge payoff. The problem is that a significant obstacle often lurks in these investments: poor security.
Operational Technology Security: The Silent Guardian of Industry
Events at the end of 2023 have underscored the importance of operational technology (OT) security – a series of cyber attacks, suspected to be the work of an Iranian government-linked group, targeted US water facilities using Israeli-made technology.
Protecting Your Intellectual Property From Cyberattacks: An Overview
Most businesses have something unique, like a product, process, innovation, code, ingredient, recipe, or idea. It’s their “special sauce” or “better mouse trap.” It sets them apart from the competition and will help them change or disrupt the world (hopefully for the good). It’s called “intellectual property,” and protecting it from bad cyber actors is critical.
Top 3 Cybersecurity Concerns For E-commerce Businesses During Online Shopping Season
The holiday season is here, which means time with friends and family, overpriced pumpkin-spiced lattes, and online shopping! If you’re an e-commerce vendor, what can put a wrinkle in your plans for online shopping domination? Two words: bad actors… or economic slowdown… or angry Swifties. But we at decodingCyber can’t help with the last two, but we can help with bad actors.
How To Fix an Underperforming Cybersecurity Team
Cybersecurity teams are critical for helping organizations protect their network and get ahead of cyberattacks. They’re a smart way to organize cyber defenses and a strategic, efficient way of pooling resources. But cybersecurity teams can underperform as well, and if that’s the case, the team might be harming your business more than helping it.
5 Critical Cyber Risks that Can Threaten Business Profits
In today’s interconnected world, business leaders must confront the pervasive and detrimental risk of cyberattacks and data breaches. Yet the consequences of cyber incidents extend beyond compromising sensitive information — they can severely impact a company’s profitability.
Vulnerability Management: 5 Steps To Protect Your Business
In the most simplistic terms, vulnerability management is an element of cybersecurity that involves finding and remediating weaknesses in your computer systems to minimize ways hackers can negatively impact your business.
Incident Response Plan: How to Prepare for the Worst and Protect Your Business
Imagine learning that you’ve just experienced a cyber incident. A cyber incident might be one of your software vendors telling you they found your password on the dark web. Perhaps you log onto your computer only to see a ransomware message. Maybe you can’t log onto your computer — and no one at your company can. What should you do?
In the Crosshairs: 8 Ways to Engage Cybercriminals to Win the Cyber War
Many companies do cybersecurity wrong. They play defense with little to no thought of offense, allowing their weaknesses and vulnerabilities to be the focal point of their cyber strategy. Instead, they should build a program to engage the cybercriminal, allowing their strengths and resiliencies to guide their cyber strategy and win the cyber war.
In the Crosshairs: 4 Tips for Lessening the Likelihood of a Cyberattack
The vast majority of businesses live with the ongoing threat of a cyberattack. They possess money and data, which cybercriminals want to steal. Therefore, these businesses should do everything in their power to lessen the likelihood that an attack will be successful. But what does that look like?
6 Things to Look for in a Cyber Expert for Your Board of Directors
A board of directors (BoD) has the power to shape an organization significantly, which means it is also responsible for managing security. With the global cost of cybercrime expected to rise to $13.2 trillion by 2028, selecting a cybersecurity expert to sit on the board of directors should be a top priority for any company.
In the Crosshairs: 4 Principles for Assessing the Likelihood of a Cyberattack
You’ll learn how to assess the likelihood of a cyberattack on your business. Our goal is to help you clearly and systematically consider how susceptible you are to an attack and act on that knowledge proactively and proactively.
Preparing For the Next Wave of Data Privacy Obligations
Some things just are better together. Peanut butter and jelly. Coffee and cream. Batman and Robin. Salt and pepper. Security and privacy.
How the SBOM Executive Order Helps Improve Cybersecurity
In the wake of major cyberattacks, such as December 2021’s Log4Shell, Congress and federal agencies have ramped up requirements for transparency in software supply chains. Software vendors are facing new requirements, including providing a software bill of materials, or SBOM, which can help improve cybersecurity measures.
Why You Need a Cyber Expert on Your Board of Directors
Cybersecurity has been a business risk for decades. The board of directors (BoD) has a responsibility to help manage that risk, but most BoDs don’t even have a cyber expert.
Advice for Leaders—Think Like Your Adversary
How do cyber bad actors, a.k.a., our adversaries, think? Easy, like the rest of us. Well, with a slightly different optic. If you're leading an organization, you are charged with staying one step ahead of your adversaries — your data, earnings, and business future depend on it.
Understanding and Mitigating Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risks
Protecting your company from cyber threats is hard enough — so why worry about anyone else? Because of supply chains. Because of Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 suppliers. Because you hire consultants and they hire subcontractors, every one of them is a potential vulnerability.
Building a Cybersecurity Team Structure: Best Practices
Every organization has a cybersecurity team. Some teams are big, some are small. Some invest a lot in protecting their companies, while others … take risks. It all depends.
Zero Trust Security Explained: Strategies for a Secure Digital Future
The world runs on trust, and cybersecurity is no different. Just as you take an elevator without worrying about it crashing, you shop online because you trust that your money and data are safe. How does that happen? Because of a cybersecurity model called zero trust.
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