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Brought to you by ITPro Today Excelling in cybersecurity requires mastery of a broad range of security skills — like how to manage vulnerabilities, how to interpret cybersecurity metrics, and how to design systems to be resilient against attack. But before you learn all that, you need to know how to speak like a cybersecurity expert. You must be able to explain the difference between an APT and AES, or how IAM differs from PAM. To that end, we’ve prepared this Cybersecurity Acronyms Cheat Sheet to serve as a reference guide for cybersecurity acronyms you should be familiar with in 2024. It covers basic security acronyms that have been around for decades, as well as some trendier terms that have emerged only in recent years. Download your free cheat sheet below! Download Now

As head of Product I’m responsible for making sure we have secure software to ship, that our IT Resilience platform is secure from code to Cloud. Our customers are very savvy and laserfocused on security. We need to be out ahead of questions we know they’re going to ask about our security posture. We are also taking a long view, making sure we have all the right security processes in place now for future growth and continuous compliance.” – Rob Stechay, SVP of Product, Zerto Security at the Board Level, Are You Prepared?: As applications become central to business operations, and risk, security is frequently a board-level topic. Board Directors and CEOs are seeking to better understand the risk profile and the and the security posture of the company. The questions include: • What is our risk exposure? • Is my organization’s risk posture improving? • What is our overall maturity level? • What are our most critical applications and data? • What is our remediation process? • Is this impacting revenue? CIOs and CISOs don’t have datadriven answers to these, due largely in part to the lack of overall visibility across code repositories and application deployments. It is extremely difficult, and typically manual, to correlate and aggregate security testing results. Download Now

VERIZON’S 2021 DATA BREACH INVESTIGATIONS REPORT SHOWS THAT PHISHING CONTINUES TO BE THE TOP THREAT ACTION USED IN SUCCESSFUL BREACHES. CYBERCRIMINALS STOLE LOGIN CREDENTIALS IN 85% OF BREACHES LINKED TO SOCIAL ENGINEERING. Cybercriminals never take holiday. In fact, 2020 gave them reason and renewed motivation to ramp up their nefarious efforts. Phishing incidents nearly doubled in frequency from 2019 to 2020, from 114,702 incidents in 2019, to 241,324 incidents in 2020, according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Overall, phishing held sway as the most common type of cyber crime last year, according to the FBI. The idea that technology can prevent all cyber-related incidents has never been further from the truth because cybercriminals know the easiest way in is through your people. Security leaders must understand that there is no such thing as a perfect, fool-proof, impenetrable secure environment. Many organisations fall into the trap of trying to use technology as the only means of defending their networks and forget that the power of human awareness and intervention is paramount in arriving at a highly secured state. Every security leader faces the same conundrum: even as they increase their investment in sophisticated security orchestration, cyber crime continues to rise. Security is often presented as a race between effective technologies and clever attack methodologies. Yet there’s an overlooked best practice that can radically reduce an organisation’s vulnerability: security awareness training and frequent simulated social engineering testing. Download Now