Those Security Threats Are All in Your Head
This week's newsletter tackles the cognitive threats to cybersecurity and old thinking about identity being the "new" perimeter. Also: The disconnect between CISOs and security vendors continues.
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Fix it! NO, Not Like THAT
Security pros often don’t understand why their business won’t accept certain types of solutions. Thus, they can’t articulate those problems to vendors. If both sides can't grasp why existing solutions aren’t organizationally viable, they stand no chance at building better solutions that are viable.
Identity Is the Perimeter. Attackers Know It. Do You?
Dave Lewis, Global Advisory CISO at 1Password, says if you treat identity as your perimeter, you stop caring about where traffic comes from and start caring about who is asking for access, how they proved it, and what they are allowed to do. Here's how to go about it.
Have We Already Had a Cognitive Pearl Harbor?
Winn Schwartau warned of a “Digital Pearl Harbor” decades ago and is now raising a more unsettling possibility: the real attack may already be underway, targeting human perception itself.
Security Teams Are Fighting the Wrong DDoS: The One Happening in Their Heads
Security teams have spent years trying to reduce alert fatigue, but the real bottleneck isn’t tooling, but the human brain’s inability to process the volume of information being thrown at it.