The Coming Cyber Crysis In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole continues his assessment of the cyber crisis that is already happening. Cyber attacks are no longer about lone attackers wanting to prove some kind of point or cause random mayhem, they calculate...
Why Organizations Are Vulnerable to Ransomware In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole walks us through why so many organizations are vulnerable to cyber attacks and ransomware specifically. If you don’t cover the basics – strong passwords, never...
The Cost Of Ransomware In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole is all about Ransomware. Ransomware is when an adversary hacks into your system and makes your critical data inaccessible until you can pay a ransom. Many practices we have to prevent ransomware...
What Is Zero Trust? In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole focuses on Zero Trust architecture. What Zero Trust means is that by default, all devices in a network have to be authenticated in order to interconnect with other devices. All the security in the...
Back to (Cybersecurity) Basics In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole reviews the basics of cybersecurity. It is inevitable that breaches will occur. The job of a CISO is to make sure that those breaches are small, observed and fixed quickly, and contain no...
How to make friends with failure to succeed as a CISO In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole is all about failure. In the world of business, failure is one step, or even many steps, closer to success. Successful entrepreneurs are able to embrace failure...
