Jul 29, 2021

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole continues his assessment of the cyber crisis that is already happening. Cyber attacks are no longer about lone attackers wanting to prove some kind of point or cause random mayhem, they calculate risk/reward just like any other organization, and go after the targets...

Jul 21, 2021

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole is all about why so many organizations are vulnerable to cyber attacks and ransomware specifically. If you don’t cover the basics--strong passwords, never opening email attachments, never patching, etc.-- You might as well leave the front door open and the passcode to...

Jul 15, 2021

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole is all about Ransomware. Ransomware is when an adversary hacks into your system and makes your critical data inaccessible until you can pay a ransom. Many practices we have to prevent ransomware are ineffective in real-world scenarios. Many of us are careless and use the...

Jul 8, 2021

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole focuses on Zero Trust architecture. What Zero Trust means is that by default, all devices in a network have to be authenticated in order to interconnect with other devices. All the security in the world can’t do anything if you can compromise a person, either by...

Jul 1, 2021

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole reviews the basics of cybersecurity. It is inevitable that breaches will occur. The job of a CISO is to make sure that those breaches are small, observed and fixed quickly, and contain no critical data. If you do not follow the most basic rules of cybersecurity, it...