After a year of high-profile breaches, organizations should concentrate on reinforcing crumbling security foundations rather than adopting complex new software, said 25 chief information security officers in a survey by IT security content company Security Current.
“Looking back at 2015, I would say it was the year that redefined APT,” Brian Kelly, CISO of Quinnipiac University, told Security Current. “It went from the long-standing definition of Advanced Persistent Threat to Annoying Phishing Tactics.”
In the survey — which included comments from security professionals working in finance, health care, academia and big tech — each CISO offered a unique perspective on 2015’s cataclysmic string of hacks and forecasted the threat climate of the coming year. Yet, some had similar observations — chief among them was the need for basic “cyber hygiene” to ameliorate threats like phishing emails, which historically have been the most successful attacks despite their lack of complexity. For the full article click here
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