Posts Tagged ‘Cyber-Physical Security’
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: Strengthening Insider Threat Resilience with Cyber-Physical Integration
This article was also written in partnership with Josh Massey, Director of Enterprise Risk of The MITRE Corporation’s Enterprise Security Assurance department. As such, Mr. Massey is responsible for establishing, executing, supervising, and directing the implementation and oversight of MITRE’s insider threat program and strategic protection initiatives across MITRE’s six federally funded research and development…
Read More5 Best Practices to Successfully Connect Systems in Your Technology Ecosystem
Integrating technology-based security solutions with manned guarding has gained significant traction, encompassing a wide range of applications. These include situational awareness and threat intelligence platforms, risk mitigation planning, and remote video and alarm monitoring. Major events such as natural disasters, cyber threats, violent hate crimes, and pandemics have consistently acted as catalysts for technology adoption.…
Read MoreThe Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: The Unification of the CSO and CISO
Don’t be surprised by what can be accomplished when a CSO & CISO join forces to fight insider threats. How Do We Unify the Approach? So What Does a Collaborative Approach Look Like? Pre-Incident Indicators of Compromise The Common Insider Threat Investigation Scenario Context is Key Understanding the Bigger Picture Whether you are fighting anonymous…
Read MoreCyber and Physical Security Must Validate Their Value in 2023
Manish Mehta shares with IFSEC Global the importance of communication and collaboration of both physical and cyber security teams for 2023. This article was originally featured on IFSEC Global For corporate security teams and their budgets, 2023 is likely to be quite challenging. An unclear economic picture and proliferating threats will put greater pressure on…
Read MoreCyber-Physical Convergence is Happening, But Not Fast Enough
Leaders should drive discussions about triggers that cause decision-making. When and how should analysts escalate an issue? When should the cybersecurity team check in with HR about an employee’s behavior? Answering these questions and putting processes in place to help will increase your ability to respond proactively to threats and create a common operating picture…
Read MoreHow Financial Services Can Prepare for and Mitigate Cyber-Physical Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure
Watch this panel of security experts as they talk about current challenges and their approaches to security preparedness against emerging threats like:
Read MorePhysical and Digital Executive Protection: Synchronizing Domains
Exploring the relationship between executive cyber protection and physical security teams and some strategies to achieve these goals. Organizations of all sizes continue to face risks from multiple vectors in the digital and physical domains. These domains overlap, and for at least half a decade, organizations have quietly discussed ways to converge these functions. The…
Read MoreNew Physical Security Tools, Information Overload, And The Big Picture For Corporate Teams
This article was originally featured on SecurityInformed.com Technology continues to transform the physical security industry, helping companies become more aware of the full spectrum of risks their organization faces. Our new survey provides strong evidence that the use of these tools is solving some problems, but their implementation may create new challenges. In our 2022…
Read MoreThe Convergence of Physical Security and Cybersecurity – What Will It Take?
According to Ontic’s recently released 2022 State of Protective Intelligence Report, the convergence of physical and cybersecurity operations is an area of investment in 2022 for nearly half (48%) surveyed, and 37% are investing in the buildout/fusion of a cyber-physical Security Operation Center (SOC). Most agree (96%), including 59% who strongly agree, that cybersecurity and…
Read MoreCompanies Are Adopting New Security Tools, but Could Still Miss the Big Picture
We all know that nearly every industry is being transformed by technology. The security and protection sector, which has long lagged behind others, has been gaining traction on this front for years as new tools are created to assist global security teams in identifying and monitoring a variety of threats. The pandemic has accelerated this…
Read MoreThinking Strategically About Protective Intelligence Programs
Whether you’re establishing a protective intelligence program from scratch, or re-evaluating the way your team’s resources are currently allocated, it may be helpful to step back from the day-to-day issues within your programs and think more strategically. In many organizations, security leaders are too busy fighting literal and figurative fires to consider how they might…
Read MoreWhy the Insider Threat Will Motivate Cyber and Physical Teams to Collaborate More Than Ever in 2022
This article was originally featured in IFSEC Global The convergence of cyber and physical security functions reflects the increasing interplay of digital systems and the physical world, and the growing consensus that a gap in one realm leaves the other exposed. But silos between the two security functions continue to exist. In some cases, it’s…
Read MoreStudy Finds Increase in Cybersecurity and Physical Security Attacks Against Executives
In the art of protective and tactical intelligence, trends and analytics matter. Information and intelligence feed “living” threat assessments and should drive your cybersecurity and physical security strategy, coverages, and resources. Protection resources cannot be logically allocated to protect executives and companies without first understanding the holistic threat landscape. In the executive protection security space,…
Read MoreManaging Through Change: How Increased Cyber-Physical Security Threats Will Impact Companies
To fully understand the risk of treating the two areas as separate units, it’s important to consider the evolving threat landscape and learn from:
Read MoreWhy Does Convergence Matter? A Q&A with Bob Hayes, Founder of the Security Executive Council
Bob Hayes is a global pioneer of corporate security. A former CSO at Georgia Pacific, and a security operations manager at 3M, he’s designed and guided some of the most complex enterprise security programs in the world. He was also one of the first security executives to successfully implement a program to unify corporate security,…
Read MoreManaging Increased Cyber-Physical Security Threats in a Hyper-Connected World
This article was originally featured in Dark Reading. When it comes to enterprise security, the physical world and the cyber domain have long been treated as separate — like a Venn diagram whose circles don’t overlap. Those days are over. Companies are facing an enormous increase in threats, with physical exposures interacting with the cyber…
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