Cybersecurity strategy guides how organizations prioritize risks, protect critical systems, and prepare for incidents, recovery, and resilience.
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Security strategy is the long-term direction an organization uses to manage information-security risk and support its business objectives. It sets priorities for protecting systems and data, assigns decision-making authority, defines acceptable risk, and guides investment in controls, skills, architecture, and suppliers. A sound strategy turns risk assessments and threat intelligence into measurable security outcomes rather than a disconnected list of tools.
For practitioners, strategy determines which assets and attack paths receive priority in vulnerability management, how privacy and regulatory obligations shape data handling, and what capabilities must exist for detection, containment, recovery, and testing. It should account for dependencies such as cloud services, software providers, identities, and legacy systems, while establishing review points as technology, threats, and business operations change. Effective governance links these choices to owners, budgets, metrics, and documented exceptions.
Respondents in Dark Reading's Strategic Security Survey believe that the primary cause of their organization's next major data breach would involve social engineering, negligent users, and insecure remote workers.
Beijing, now Moscow.… Who else is hiding in broadband gateways? The US government today said it disrupted a botnet that Russia's GRU military intelligence unit has been using for phishing expeditions, spying, credential harvesting, and data theft against American and foreign governments and other strategic targets.…
The industry is evolving from one of conventional threat detection toward a strategy that emphasizes context and preempts user behavior.
Agency Is Surveying Previous Auditees to Reassess Dormant Audit ProgramAs U.S. federal regulators fine-tune a strategy to push the healthcare sector into a stronger cybersecurity posture, they are also dusting off a HIPAA compliance audit program that's been dormant for the last seven years. A new round of HIPAA audits for regulated entities is in the works.
The Agency Is Surveying Previous Auditees to Reassess the Dormant ProgramAs U.S. federal regulators fine-tune a strategy to push the healthcare sector into a stronger cybersecurity posture, they appear to be dusting off a HIPAA compliance audit program that's been dormant for the last seven years. Is a new round of HIPAA audits for regulated entities on the horizon?
Trend Micro’s Chief Technology Strategy Officer discusses the biggest cybersecurity trends and what to watch for in 2024.
Trend Micro’s Chief Technology Strategy Officer discusses the biggest cybersecurity trends and what to watch for in 2024.
Legislation Aims to Evaluate and Improve Agency's Cybersecurity PostureA new bipartisan Senate bill would require the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to biennially conduct cybersecurity reviews and tests on its IT systems and report to Congress on how it is updating its cybersecurity strategy to keep up with evolving cyberthreats.
Company Will Use Investment to Expand Services, says CEO Dave GerryBugcrowd received a $102 million venture capital investment to fuel strategic growth, the company announced Monday. "Our customers are outgunned and outmatched. They need to tap into all this creativity that exists within the hacker community," said company CEO Dave Gerry.
Company Will Use Investment to Expand Services, says CEO Dave GerryBugcrowd received a $102 million venture capital investment to fuel strategic growth, the company announced Monday. "Our customers are outgunned and outmatched. They need to tap into all this creativity that exists within the hacker community," said company CEO Dave Gerry.