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The CISO Life Is Half as Good
Lora Vaughn was at a crossroads and that was before mandated pandemic lockdowns came into play. Here s her story of how life got sweeter after she stepped away from the CISO job.
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The painting propped up behind Lora Vaughn is only half-done. Like so many things undertaken in the past 12 months, it was interrupted by unforeseen misfortune. In the painting s case, a torn rotator cuff first disrupted operations. A broken ring finger caused another hiccup. Yet neither Vaughn nor the painting seem terribly concerned about the delay or the mishaps because in a year spiked with great changes, Vaughn has come through better than ever.
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Realistic Patch Management Tips, Post-SolarWinds
Patch management and testing are different, exactly the same, and completely out of hand. Here are tips from the experts on how to wrangle patches in a time of malicious software updates.
(image by Barbara Helgason, via Adobe Stock) If you didn t already know that patching introduces risk, well.now you know, says Brad Causey, CEO of security consulting and penetration testing firm Zero Day Consulting.
Causey is referring of course to the recent attack on SolarWinds that shook the industry. Software updates for SolarWinds Orion network management software were used to distribute the Sunburst/Solarigate backdoor Trojan to some 18,000 organizations worldwide. (Note: SolarWinds is, itself, also a provider of third-party patch management services. However, those services do not appear to have been affected by the recent attacks.)
Realistic Patch Management Tips, Post-SolarWinds
Patch management and testing are different, exactly the same, and completely out of hand. Here are tips from the experts on how to wrangle patches in a time of malicious software updates.
(image by Barbara Helgason, via Adobe Stock) If you didn t already know that patching introduces risk, well.now you know, says Brad Causey, CEO of security consulting and penetration testing firm Zero Day Consulting.
Causey is referring of course to the recent attack on SolarWinds that shook the industry. Software updates for SolarWinds Orion network management software were used to distribute the Sunburst/Solarigate backdoor Trojan to some 18,000 organizations worldwide. (Note: SolarWinds is, itself, also a provider of third-party patch management services. However, those services do not appear to have been affected by the recent attacks.)