Category: CSO

Leaking company secrets via generative AIs like ChatGPT

For a third party, knowing what people from company X are asking of ChatGPT (or any other generative AI) could be quite interesting and profitable…

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Talking about ChatGPT with your colleagues

I wonder how many security teams have reached out to their colleagues about the use of ChatGPT and other hot new generative AI tools. Here’s…

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Vulnerability management – we’re doing it wrong

Security professionals (and the people who measure our performance like auditors and regulators) have traditionally taken a stance that “all serious vulnerabilities should be patched”…

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Cloud computing concentration and systemic risk

I came across an interesting blog post over at Finextra which got me thinking about a topic that has been in the back of my…

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Hunting for secrets on GitHub

We need to work with system designers and developers to make them understand that using a secure credential vault with programmatic access is not an optional luxury – it is a basic security requirement. Credentials do not belong in code, even if that code is stored in a safe inside a vault inside a volcano.

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Too much information?

An interesting piece in the Harvard Business Review highlights the one of the challenges information security professionals face when dealing with security awareness; we actively…

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Securing the real perimeter – part 1

I was thinking about the way that the concept of a “perimeter” has changed in the time I have been in information security. (Obviously, I…

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We’re number 1!

Something for those of us who have to continue to remind our executives how important it is to continually increase our cybersecurity budgets… Global insurer…

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Boredom and security

We security management types would like to think that every task we give our minions is exciting and engaging. However, there are lots of security…

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Can experience be a hindrance in making security decisions?

Some interesting insight from the Harvard Business Review’s January 2020 IdeaWatch section: A study looked at how people react to information which indicates that a…

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