Tag Archives: CISO

Jim Richberg, field chief information security officer at Fortinet, wrote in a guest piece published Wednesday on GCN that government CISOs with limited budget resources and staff should leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation to accelerate detection and response to cyber attacks.

CNSI has appointed technology leader Mike Jin as senior vice president, chief information officer and chief information security officer to lead information and data security, the company announced on Monday. 

Booz Allen Hamilton and the University of California Berkeley have announced a joint white paper, titled “Resilient Governance for Boards of Directors: Considerations for Effective Oversight of Cyber Risk,” the company announced on Wednesday.

Mathew Newfield, chief information security officer of Unisys, has said President Trump's executive order on supply chain security is a wake-up call for government and technology industry leaders, SearchCIO reported Friday.

Richard Ford, chief scientist at Forcepoint, wrote in a Fifth Domain opinion piece published Wednesday that organizations seeking to address cybersecurity risks should shift their focus towards human behavior amid evolving threats.

Jon Check, senior director of cyber protection solutions at Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business, said agency chief information security officers seeking to make their cybersecurity funds stretch further should look at their priorities. Check wrote in a GCN article published Thursday that agency CISOs should assess their hiring approach and determine whether their cyber tools are updated and capable to address the current security threats.

Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO of Raytheon, has said there are five key takeaways from the White House’s updated National Cyber Strategy and one of those is the Trump administration’s position that cyber crime is a national security threat. Kennedy wrote in a Fox Business opinion piece published Monday that through the strategy, the administration made clear that one of its key priorities is to address intellectual property theft.

Christopher Kennedy, a former program manager at Northrop Grumman, has joined enterprise security automation technology provider AttackIQ as chief information security officer and vice president of customer success.

To comment on Microsoft’s development of machine learning and cloud infrastructure, the usability of as-a-Service offerings and the widespread usage of artificial intelligence in the federal marketspace, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Microsoft’s Scott Price, General Manager of the company’s National Security Group. “Any agency leaning forward to drive artificial intelligence and …

A Raytheon-commissioned study has found that 82 percent of senior information technology professionals said they predict the use of unsecured internet of things-based devices to result in a major data breach over the next three years. The Ponemon Institute polled approximately 1,100 senior IT practitioners in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East …

Siemens and several other companies have signed a joint charter on cybersecurity at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. Siemens said Friday it will work with Airbus, IBM, Daimler Group, Allianz, NXP, Deutsche Telekom and SGS as well as MSC to address 10 cybersecurity action areas under the joint charter. …

PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal business, has said government security professionals should be ready to concisely communicate their teams’ cybersecurity activities and strategies to senior-most government leaders. Puvvada wrote in an opinion piece published Thursday on FCW that federal security officers should present cybersecurity information to agency and department heads in short, …

Onapsis and the Cloud Security Alliance have formed a new working group to oversee the development of best practices designed to help organizations securely move Oracle, SAP and other enterprise resource planning applications to the cloud. CSA and Onapsis said Thursday they will work with chief information security officers from …

Jason Smolanoff, a former CEO of CISO Advisory & Investigations and a 12-year FBI veteran, has been appointed senior managing director at Kroll and leader of the company’s  global cyber security practice. Kroll said Tuesday the more than 16-year federal law enforcement and information security veteran previously supervised investigations of various sophisticated computer and network intrusions …

Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe will be among the keynote speakers at a FireEye-hosted forum to be held in Washington April 12. FireEye said Tuesday that Hurd and McAuliffe will headline the FireEye Government Forum with the theme “The Path to Cyber Resilience” with attending FireEye executives David DeWalt, board …