CSO Update

Nov 06, 2018

10 essential PowerShell security scripts for Windows administrators

PowerShell is a valuable tool for automating Windows administration tasks, including laborious security chores Read More ▶

Your Must-Read Stories

•	The OPM hack explained: Bad security practices meet China's Captain America

•	Data exchanges know all about you; soon they'll impact cybersecurity

•	4 dangerous security assumptions to avoid

•	Automating security at AWS: How Amazon Web Services operates with no SOC

•	Cyber threats fueled by AI: Security's next big challenge

•	Cyber security relics: 4 older technologies still plaguing the infosec world

The OPM hack explained: Bad security practices meet China's Captain America

How the OPM hack happened, the technical details, and a timeline of the infiltration and response. Read More ▶

Data exchanges know all about you; soon they'll impact cybersecurity

Our digital lives, physical locations and credit card usage are traded on exchanges. If there's such a thing as "surveillance capitalism," data exchanges are the closest thing to three letter intelligence agencies. Read More ▶

4 dangerous security assumptions to avoid

Many organizations take steps to guard against data breaches, employing new policies, tools and strategies that make them feel protected, but their defenses may not be as strong as they think. Unfortunately, this false sense of security is all-too-easy to come by. Read More ▶

Automating security at AWS: How Amazon Web Services operates with no SOC

Amazon Web Services CISO Stephen Schmidt explains the company's recipe for combining security automation with ways to get management and staff to take security seriously. Read More ▶

Cyber threats fueled by AI: Security's next big challenge

Security has always been an arms race. But the addition of AI is like jumping from tomahawks to Tomahawk missiles. Read More ▶

Cyber security relics: 4 older technologies still plaguing the infosec world

Understanding the issues of the past can help us be better equipped to deal with seemingly new issues in the present. Read More ▶

Editor's Picks

1.	10 essential enterprise security tools (and 11 nice-to-haves)
2.	7 best practices for negotiating ransomware payments
3.	Are long passphrases the answer to password problems?
4.	Bruce Schneier's Click Here to Kill Everybody reveals the looming cybersecurity crisis
5.	Cybercriminals are using blockchain to improve security. Should you?
6.	5 hard truths every CISO should know
7.	What it takes to be a security consultant

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