April 5, 2024 at 03:39PM
CISO Corner offers security articles for operational readers and leaders, covering issues from cybersecurity awareness to cyber threats in the Middle East. It discusses funding for securing the internet, nearly-hacked 2022 World Cup, Azure AI defense, Ivanti security overhaul, and the importance of a whole-of-society approach to cybersecurity.
From the meeting notes, the following key points can be extracted:
– Cybersecurity awareness and long-term priority for boards: CISOs need to communicate with non-technical audiences, emphasize the human element in cybersecurity, outline how awareness-training programs can be measured, and secure long-term support.
– Cybersecurity threats intensify during Ramadan: Security teams in the Middle East face increased DDoS, phishing, and ransomware campaigns during Ramadan, and they adopt extra vigilance and outsourced support during this period.
– Funding the organizations that secure the internet: The Common Good Cyber initiative is working to build adequate funding into law and policy to support nonprofit organizations focused on securing internet infrastructure.
– Hacking threat to Soccer’s 2022 World Cup in Qatar: A threat actor had access to a router configuration database that could have disrupted coverage, leading to substantial geopolitical implications, brand damage, and financial losses.
– Microsoft beefs up defenses in Azure AI: Microsoft’s AI Studio is rolling out new capabilities to protect Azure AI from threats such as prompt injection, ensuring the resilience of generative AI apps to model and content manipulation attacks.
– Ivanti pledges security overhaul: Ivanti is committed to revamping its security practices and implementing a new secure-by-design initiative for product development following a series of critical bug disclosures in its remote access products.
– Cybersecurity as a whole-of-society issue: Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) emphasized the need for a whole-of-society effort to reshape the market for cybersecurity and the importance of incorporating cybersecurity into business practices and everyday lives.
These takeaways can be categorized and summarized as follows:
1. Importance of cybersecurity awareness and long-term support for boards
2. Cybersecurity challenges during Ramadan in the Middle East
3. Efforts to secure funding for internet infrastructure organizations
4. Threat to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar
5. Microsoft’s enhancements in Azure AI security
6. Ivanti’s commitment to security overhaul
7. Cybersecurity as a whole-of-society issue