You don’t have to go far to find cyber security professionals complaining about skills shortages, but the problem has several dimensions which have to be understood and mapped out before we can start to figure out possible solutions.
Recently, RiskRecon, a Mastercard Company, founder Kelly White, sat down with Sam Olyaei, Director at Gartner Research, and Errol Weiss, Chief Security Officer at Health-ISAC, to discuss their client’s experiences regarding recent trends in third-party risk management. During their discussion, they spoke about the wider impact of cybercrime and ransomware threats.
PETER KRASS, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
There's no doubt the cloud delivers a long list of valuable benefits. But it also makes security much more complex.
To learn more about cloud security challenges, and to hear how Illumio CloudSecure can help, we spoke recently with Erika Bagby, a senior product marketing manager at Illumio.
Why does cloud computing make cybersecurity more complex?
Probably when transferring valuable data to the online environment, people are more concerned about their safety. According to IT Governance, in January 2020, the total number of leaked records reached 1.5 billion.
There are real issues in the security operations space but buying more tools won’t help
On January 4, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned that "It is critical that companies and their vendors relying on Log4j act now, in order to reduce the likelihood of harm to consumers, and to avoid FTC legal action." Additionally, the FTC has expressed a desire to further evaluate the dependency on open-source services and the potential impact on customers.
