RSA Blog
Securing the Digital World
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Tabletop Exercises Build Resilience and Confidence for Future Elections
9/17/2020The goal of a tabletop exercise is to examine and advance the organizational responsiveness of various business risks. Learn how one recent exercise tested the resilience of the U.S. democratic election process.
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Strategies for Insider Threat Mitigation
9/9/2020In Part II of this blog series, we examine strategies for insider threat risk mitigation including key tenants of data visibility and advanced analytics to provide organizations a road map for addressing this evolving threat.
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Is Cybersecurity Training on your Back-to-School List?
9/8/2020Virtual learning is an experience many teachers, parents and students have never previously planned for, and it’s creating cybersecurity risks. Acceleration of online education should be viewed as a fantastic opportunity to proactively address cybersecurity awareness.
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Five Ways Operational Resiliency Drives Opportunity
9/3/2020Some organizations are not only able to survive a barrage of cyberattacks, natural disasters and outbreaks of illness alongside everyday business challenges, but they thrive. Read about five areas that can help turn your organization’s resilience into a great offense.
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Financial Accountability Regime Holds Executives' Feet to the Fire
8/27/2020The proposed regulation seeks to hold financial services executives accountable for a wide range of misconduct at their companies through stiff fines and penalties.
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Election Security in the Crosshairs
8/25/2020It’s time to address the security and risk strategies for mitigating the threats facing the democratic election process to help improve voter confidence.
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Fewer but Faster: The New Reality for a CIO’s Transformation Plans
8/19/2020Business leaders are looking to recalibrate the future direction of their business while needing to accelerate parts of the business to encourage the right go-forward course. Are they ready to manage the potential risks?
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Opportunities for Risk Management in the “Great Reset”
8/4/2020The World Economic Forum characterizes the coming years as “the great reset” with accelerated efforts towards digital capabilities. Risk and security teams must treat integration as a core element of their strategies to meet the new pace of business.
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From the Ashes of Disruption Emerges Innovation and New Ways to Work
7/28/2020RSA CTO Dr. Zulfikar Ramzan talks with ITPSmagazine about the security and risk challenges of transitioning employee and business operations back to physical locations and why this period of disruption may be a catalyst for a new era of innovation.
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Reimagining the SOC for the Future of Work
7/28/2020Amy Blackshaw and Michael Adler talk with ITPSmagazine about ways to enable a successful virtual SOC and what organizations need to do to manage the growing threat of dynamic workforce risks.
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Three Ways Managing Risk Helps During Economic Downturns
7/22/2020The on-going health crisis has caused global economic downturns across every industry due to lack of demand, widespread shutdowns and furloughs. Organizations that are resilient, manage their third-party ecosystems and optimize their workforce will fare better than those who don’t.
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How to Avoid Money Scams While Holidaying at Home
7/16/2020At a time when more people are remote and using digital tools, be aware of these common payment scams and learn what steps to take to avoid falling victim.
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Managing Digital Risk in a New Age of Internet of Things
7/15/2020IoT risk is digital risk. Manage it correctly to gain the full power of IoT.
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While in Lock Down, Here’s What Fraudsters Did in Q1 2020
7/8/2020Learn what fraud trends RSA monitored in Q1 2020.
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Risk Manager: The Top Career of the Future?
7/7/2020In a time of change, risks will follow. As organizations look to navigate their next normal, expect the demand for risk management professionals to expand greatly in the months and years ahead.
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Healthcare in the Age of Ransomware
7/1/2020Ransomware attacks against healthcare providers increased 350% during the last quarter of 2019, and the rapid pace of attacks continued into 2020. Healthcare is one of most exposed industries to ransomware today, and it's time for proactive action.
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Compliance in a Time of Disruption
6/29/2020On June 1, 2020, the U.S. Justice Department updated the “Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations,” which includes considerations for evaluating the adequacy and effectiveness of an organization’s compliance program. This blog post discusses the impact of the global health crisis on compliance programs, and the factors to consider in the future to align compliance programs with these principles.
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Voice to Tweet Fuels New Fears for Deep Fakes and Cybercrime
6/24/2020With the introduction of voice to Tweet, consumers get a powerful new tool. As with innovation, there is risk. Learn how voice can be exploited across many domains if it falls into the wrong hands.
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Is Municipal Ransomware Something to Lose Sleep Over?
6/4/2020Does a recent drop in reported municipal malware attacks indicate that attackers have moved on to greener pastures? Or, is there a more insidious, coordinated attack looming? The probability is difficult to gauge, but the potential impact is not. Municipalities' soft digital underbelly demands digital risk management.
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Security Considerations for the Dynamic Workforce
6/1/2020The way we work has changed forever. From offices to homes and remote locations, what do security operations need to consider? And how do they need to adapt to this dynamic workforce? There are five security considerations that should be top of mind in this new reality.
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Preparing for the Risk Challenges of an Uncertain Tomorrow
5/20/2020Here are four risks organizations will likely face in the new normal.
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Fraudsters Exploit Benefits Programs in New Round of Global Attacks
5/19/2020Cybercriminals are exploiting benefits insurance programs when people are undergoing a historically vulnerable moment.
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Lay the Foundations of Digital Risk Management
5/19/2020Digital transformation has blurred the boundary between cybersecurity and risk management. As companies’ security and risk functions break down silos to deal with today’s challenges, an integrated approach should emerge to deal with tomorrow’s emerging risks. Digital Risk Management must bring IT, Security and Risk teams together in a unified approach and address fundamental areas of digital risk.
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Digital Transformation: Innovation Amid Disruption
5/11/2020Companies pursue digital initiatives to improve customer experiences, deliver new products and services and optimize operations, reduce costs and improve margins. Today’s disruption has accelerated the need for digital transformation to meet unprecedented business challenges.
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Who is Responsible for Securing Telemedicine?
5/6/2020There are areas of our lives and society that might not go back to exactly the way they were before the pandemic. Those could include working from home versus in an office. Retail will likely begin to transform digitally in ways not seen before. Corporate travel might decrease as more people work from home. I’m not sure how I feel about those changes, but one area I have embraced is telehealth or telemedicine.
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Securing the New Digital Reality
5/5/2020The current disruption is paving the way for a more digitally-enabled future. Learn what steps organizations should take to prepare their security and risk management strategies for this new reality.
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New Healthcare Legislation: Striking a Balance Between Privacy and Convenience
5/3/2020As the healthcare industry focuses on managing the current disruption, new interoperability guidance from the 21st Century Cures Act offers patients secure access and open exchange of health information via third-party applications.
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The Future of Preventing Digital Fraud and Improving the Customer Experience
4/29/2020Organizations should prepare for a new normal that includes greater proliferation of digital channels and more digital fraud risk. See what steps a business should take now to mitigate future challenges.
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In Times of Disruption, Don’t Forget Your Third Parties
4/22/2020In a time of disruption, monitoring and checking in with your third-party ecosystem is more important than ever. Prepare today to avoid business disruptions triggered by an external partner.
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Helping you Adapt to the New Normal: RSA’s Commitment to Meet this Moment
4/22/2020A note from RSA Chief Marketing Officer - Across every sector, every enterprise size, and every region, RSA continues our commitment to helping customers and communities manage and adapt to these challenges and we are stepping up across all fronts to meet the moment as we all transition to a new normal.
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How to Integrate Security into the DevOp Process
4/16/2020Oil and water. That’s often how DevOps and Security teams are described. It’s no wonder the two working together to create secure software faster isn’t yet the norm. But it can be. It should be. It just takes a culture shift left.
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Tips for Applying the Known in a Time of Uncertainty
4/15/2020While the future is unclear, turn to the certainties to help your business navigate today's disruption.
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The Impact of Digital Transformation in a Healthcare Crisis
4/13/2020During an extraordinarily challenging time for hospitals, clinics and other providers of care, it’s important to be aware of the importance of digital technology in healthcare – and the importance of managing the risk digital transformation can create.
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Managing Risk in Times of Disruptions
4/7/2020Disruption isn’t a new concept for security and risk leaders. Minimizing the impact of disruptions is a big part of the job. But most organizations are experiencing a whole new level of disruption lately, with unprecedented speed and magnitude of impact. The speed of change alone has many security and risk leaders’ heads on a swivel.
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Pandemic Fuels Cybercrime: 8 Scams to Watch For
3/29/2020From phishing, to account takeovers, social media attacks and more – fraudsters are leveraging the global pandemic to prey on public’s fears. Here’s what consumers need to know.
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Managing Business Disruption in the Digital World
3/23/2020Digital transformation means more technology and a more agile workforce to get more done in challenging times. But it also means more risk of disruption—and better ways to manage that risk.
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Cyber Resiliency Begins at Home
3/19/2020As organizations send employees home, so too do educational institutions. With everyone relying on the home network as never before, it is important to take time securing it – and your family.
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82 Percent of Organizations Still Use Spreadsheets to Manage Third Parties
3/15/2020A main tenet of managing vendor risk is knowing your third parties. A recent study by Forrester Research reported that four out of five organizations still use spreadsheets to inventory, assess, and manage third-party relationships. Find out where organizations miss the mark on third-party risk management and what they can do improve the practice.
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Resilient in Times of Disruption
3/9/2020Business disruptions include cyberattacks, natural disasters and outbreaks of illness and they can affect any organization – sometimes globally, creating widespread impacts. These disruptive events spotlight critical risks we should all think about. Read on to learn about these risks and how to better manage them.
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Behind the Crime: New Phishing Attack Launched Every Two Minutes
3/5/2020If the business of cybercrime was a stock, investors would be scrambling to buy it. Fraud is growing at unprecedented rates brought on by data breaches, the increase in digital services, and the fact that automation has vastly improved the ease and scale at which cybercriminals can launch attacks. Learn which global fraud trends had the most impact on businesses in 2019 and what will propel cybercrime in 2020.
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8 Digital Risks Your Board Will Ask About This Year
3/1/2020Cyber risk accountability is moving up the org chart and into the boardroom. Executive and board oversight of operational risk increasingly includes cybersecurity, and investors are demanding companies demonstrate the business impact of digital risk. Know the questions your board will be asking about digital risk and get prepared to answer.
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Reality Check: The Story of Cybersecurity
3/1/2020It’s our stories that make us human. We love a memorable narrative and often exaggerate characters and fudge reality to fit the narrative. The cybersecurity industry has an incomplete and overly simplified view of the characters in our story: the human element. It’s time to review the facts and set the story straight.
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Credential Stuffing Breeds Fraud on a Grand Scale
2/11/2020Digital transformation enables organizations of all kinds and sizes to succeed on a larger scale than ever. Unfortunately, it does the same for fraudsters. Here’s what you need to know about the recent explosion in automated credential stuffing attacks and how to protect your organization and customers.
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Small Business and the Struggle with Cyber
1/15/2020Small businesses often see cybersecurity as expensive and unobtainable, the domain of the large enterprise. While cybersecurity measures are essential for all, small businesses actually have significant advantages over the enterprise and can absolutely play with the big boys, even in sensitive spaces.
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The IoT of Life: When Digital Transformation Becomes Personal
1/14/2020Smart medical devices and wearable technologies are revolutionizing the healthcare industry and having a positive impact on the patients who use and rely on them. As with any ground-breaking technology, there is the unintended risk of cyber attacks targeting protected health information (PHI), or even worse, interrupting healthcare delivery.
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Cloud Adoption Cited as Top Initiative in Workforce Transformation
12/16/2019Digital transformation is changing the global workforce, from how we work to where we work from. Organizations are investing in new digital technology to address the impacts of globalization, demographics, work styles and work sourcing. Learn how workforce trends disrupt traditional norms and best practices for seizing the opportunities and managing the risks.
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How to Trust Your Service Provider
12/15/2019Service providers differ from suppliers, or those historically viewed as “third party”. The differences are often subtle and hard to describe, but they bring with them very different challenges and risks to your ecosystem. It’s critical to recognize this fact and to have a plan for securely integrating them into your business processes.
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The Impact of Digital Transformation in the Public Sector
11/11/2019Today’s government organizations continue to modernize how they deliver services to constituents and deliver mission outcomes with technology. But as digital transformation increasingly defines the work of government today, risk management teams must rethink how to address a much larger risk surface with an increased scale and complexity.
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Operationalizing Incident Response
11/4/2019Risk management, threat intelligence, and incident response come together in a sensible, practical, and operational detect and respond model to positively impact your cyber risk strategy. Staffing models (small and large), tools, and managed service providers can also be leveraged successfully.
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What Makes a Digital Risk Management Program?
10/31/2019Digital transformation needs a strategy to get your business to where it is wants to go, on time and safely. Like a good transit system, a Digital Risk Management program must be reliable, convenient and prepared for anything.
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10/29/2019
The loops and lines Digiville’s Digital Risk Management Transit Authority (DRMTA) represent key elements of a risk and security management program. As your organization expands its digital transformation, your program must evolve, growing tighter and more integrated than ever to provide your organization with the ‘we can get there’ mentality.
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Exploring Digiville with the DRMTA
10/24/2019Digiville, a metaphorical city representing the modern, digital enterprise, requires a top-notch transit system. The DRMTA of Digiville provides convenient, efficient transportation illustrating how risk management and security strategies must intersect and provide your organization with a ‘we can get there’ mentality.
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The Impact of Digital Transformation in Manufacturing
10/22/2019In the wake of a massive digital transformation revolution, the manufacturing industry is facing its biggest innovation disruption in modern times. In our blog series, “The Impact of Digital Transformation,” we explore how the manufacturing industry is addressing a larger and more complex risk environment as a result.
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10/21/2019
Digital transformation creates a new landscape for across the globe. While organizations go through major shifts fueled by technology, understanding the lay of the land is helpful to appreciate the breadth of challenges in managing risk and security. Digiville represents the different districts critical in managing risk in the digital world.
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The Impact of Digital Transformation in Financial Services
10/17/2019Digital transformation has opened a multitude of new choices, channels and conveniences for consumers. However, the speed and pace of innovation has also introduced new risks. In our blog series, “The Impact of Digital Transformation,” we explore how the banking industry is addressing a larger and more complex risk environment as a result.
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The Impact of Digital Transformation in Energy
10/14/2019Many factors push the energy industry to make significant investments in protecting what is widely recognized as a basic human need. In our blog series, “The Impact of Digital Transformation,” we explore how the energy industry is addressing a larger and more complex risk environment as a result.
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Calling the Shots in Digital Risk Management
10/11/2019Like a point guard in basketball calls the shots, organizations require someone to own their digital risk management strategy. However, answering the question of ownership for digital risk is actually more complicated than it seems.
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The East India Company, Rockefeller and Risk
10/10/2019Digital initiatives are changing how companies operate today and how they dream about tomorrow. The risks that are pursued and the opportunities that are uncovered rely on quantifying digital risk effectively. This includes understanding loss exposure in financial terms and the ROI and business case of the positive results as factors in a risk assessment.
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The Impact of Digital Transformation in Healthcare
10/9/2019Many factors are pushing the healthcare industry to make significant investments in digital transformation. In our blog series, “The Impact of Digital Transformation,” we explore how the industry is addressing a larger and more complex risk environment as a result.
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Seven Habits of a Risk Ready Digital Enterprise
10/2/2019Executives responsible for risk management today are frequently tasked with the seemingly impossible duty to present a clear and coherent depiction of risk across a complex business. One way to prepare for the inevitability of a board discussion on risk is to focus on seven key habits representing a ‘risk ready’ digital enterprise.
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Digital Risk: Don’t Believe the Myths Misconceptions
9/25/2019Today’s organizations face a new litany of risks related to digital business. Defining ‘digital risk’ too narrowly leads to myths and misconceptions that may not truly reveal the impact of digital transformation to operational and strategic risk.
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Ramnit Malware Makes a Return with New Tricks
9/18/2019The developers of the Ramnit Trojan have continued to evolve its capabilities for nearly a decade. It has returned again with changes in functionality, targets and methods of distribution. Yet, Ramnit isn’t the only malware to evolve and adapt to exploit current trends.
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Compliance and Digital Transformation: Imperatives to Modernize
9/15/2019Compliance is more than abiding by laws and regulations. It is also about establishing policies and procedures to execute strategies and achieve objectives and fulfilling contractual obligations of customers and third parties. Digital Transformation can introduce new and different compliance obligations, and increase the time and costs dealing with it. Organizations need to look at compliance through the lens of risk management and apply appropriate procedures and digital technologies to manage compliance risk in the most efficient and effective means possible.
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A View into the Challenge of Digital Risk
9/5/2019Today’s digital world is driving a shift in perceptions and practices in managing risk and security. The 2019 RSA® Digital Risk Report provides insights into the current state of digital risk, considerations for board discussions and industry perspectives.
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Expanding the Digital Risk Conversation
8/12/2019Pursuing digital transformation is about much more than technology. It requires expanding communication among teams, rethinking what it means to collaborate, and realigning everyone in the organization toward a common goal.
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Do You Know How Third Parties Really Impact Your Business Objectives?
8/6/2019You may think you know how third parties affect your organization’s risk profile. But there may be a lot you don’t know—like whether their third parties are adding to your risk, or whether they’re putting you at risk for cyber threats you may not even know about until it’s too late.
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Real-Time Observations in Security Hygiene
7/31/2019The most recent breach is notable in that several missteps occurred. These missteps are good reminders of the importance of security hygiene in a hyperconnected world. Take a moment to review and then ask yourself if there’s anything here you can apply to your organization
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The Secret Cost of a Frictionless Life
7/25/2019Is making it possible for people to board a plane faster worth compromising their privacy? Maybe. What about brokering their personal data for targeted marketing? Maybe not. All digital initiatives carry a price. You just must be able to decide what you’re willing to pay.
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Driving Investment in Digital Risk Management
7/23/2019Do you know what goals and initiatives are most important to executives at your company? Do you know how to demonstrate success in language they’ll understand? Learn how to be a winner in the age of digital transformation and get executives to understand the strategic role that security and risk management play in helping your organization meet its objectives.
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7/23/2019
We talk a lot about the what and how of cybersecurity. “What we can do to leverage modern technologies?” “How can we ensure that the future is, indeed, better?” Several hundred billion dollars and a few decades in it is time to rethink the why.
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Starting the Conversation Between Security and Risk Management
7/17/2019There’s more to responding to a cyber incident than just stopping the attack. Getting business, risk management and security leaders to collaborate to minimize the risk and business impact of the eventual attack is key—and it all starts with a conversation.
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Summing Up: RSA Perspectives on Security and Risk Management Trends
6/27/2019Get top-level highlights of RSA perspectives on the Gartner Top Security and Risk Management Trends research note, including practical insights on what top trends mean for your organization’s digital transformation initiatives.
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Perspectives: Don’t Let Risk Derail Your Cloud Ambitions
6/25/2019Many of today’s security and risk management tools are no match for the cloud’s scale and rapid pace of innovation. By aligning cloud security to business needs, having deep visibility into the cloud, and making cloud access secure and convenient, you help ensure the most disruptive force driving digital transformation won’t derail your business.
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Perspectives: Prepare to Manage Today’s Dynamic Workforce Risk
6/24/2019When it comes to managing workforce risk, a defensive approach that relies on passwords and static rules is no match for a revolving-door workplace and an ever-expanding attack surface. A combination of identity analytics, risk-based authentication, biometrics and UEBA keeps workers agile while protecting sensitive and critical business resources.
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Managing Third-Party Risks from Fintech
6/13/2019Banks around the world are partnering with fintech companies to deliver innovative new services to consumers, but without a holistic, cross-channel fraud prevention strategy, these partnerships often create new channels for fraudsters to exploit.
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Extending Zero Trust to Digital Risk Management
6/6/2019How do you establish the right level of trust in a Zero Trust world? The answer: It depends. The greater the risk associated with rogue access, the higher the level of trust you need to grant access to a resource. With the right level of visibility, you can gain the insights to accurately gauge risk and take action to protect what matters most.
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Perspectives: The Third-Party Risk Consequences of Outsourcing
6/6/2019Outsourcing critical operational areas to an expert third party can be a smart way for today’s digitally driven organizations to achieve their objectives without overtaxing internal resources. But it can also introduce third-party risk. The ability to manage that risk is crucial to successful third-party relationships.
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Perspectives: Turning Security and Risk Management Trends into Action
6/4/2019RSA experts share their perspectives on Gartner’s report “January 2019, Top Security and Risk Management Trends.” You’ll get practical insights on what the top trends mean for your organization’s digital transformation initiatives, especially what they imply for the challenges of managing digital risk.
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Perspectives: It's Not If, It's When, A Cyber Attack Will Hit
6/4/2019Get the RSA perspective on the trend toward beefing up SOC capabilities for threat detection and response, including a real-world scenario with specific recommendations for coordinating SOC staff and business team actions to limit the damage from a cyber attack.
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Managing Third-Party Cyber Risk – Next Level Challenges
5/22/2019Cyber risk is likely the area of highest risk to digital organizations today. Third-party risk is a close second. Now, coupling those two together -- with cyber risk originating from your third parties -- requires taking your risk management capabilities to a whole new level. Read this blog to learn more.
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Fraudsters Launch New Site to Expand Account Takeover
5/22/2019There has been a shift in focus to account takeover in cybercriminal communities over the last few years as financial institutions have created huge barriers for committing fraud. The demand for credential stuffing tools have increased, however, most have been restricted by the limited availability of pre-built configurations. New innovations among fraudsters have enabled them to target new websites with account takeover attacks.
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Standard Frameworks in a World of Digital Transformation
5/20/2019How do standard frameworks apply in an era of rapid technological change? We discuss where they still deliver value, and how to adjust for new realities.
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Going Horizontal and Vertical in Managing Digital Risk
5/7/2019In a highly volatile digital world, strategically aligning different risk management functions results in a much stronger capacity to manage risk – and more importantly, help your business innovate and leverage technology.
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With the Increased Adoption of Advanced Technologies, Can Digital Risk Be Far Behind?
5/6/2019Digital transformation results in many organizations using robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). This, in turn, raises issues about privacy, cybersecurity and other digital risks; and now regulations may be on the way. Here’s a look at what’s happening and how to be prepared.
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Risk Profiling Your Digital Initiative
5/2/2019Digital initiatives can take many different forms and viewing them through the lens of the operating model provides insights into what risks may bubble to the top.
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Common Denominators of Digital Risk
4/24/2019As your digital opportunity unfolds, be mindful of the need to identify, assess and treat risks in effective, efficient manners and gain the upper hand in your market.
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Social Media and the Digital Transformation of Cybercrime
4/23/2019Cybercriminals are increasingly connecting with each other on social media, according to a recent NBC News report. But it’s not news to RSA researchers who have been monitoring, tracking and reporting on the growth of social media-related cybercrime for years.
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Surviving the Collateral Damage of a Data Breach
4/21/2019When a health care company working with multiple hospital systems and health plans suffers a data breach, it isn't the only one impacted. The incident also puts hundreds of thousands of patients' personal data--including medical information--at risk.
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The Dark Side of Digital Transformation
4/16/2019It happens all the time: An organization launches an innovative new service to make it more convenient for their customers to do business—only to find they’ve also made it easier for cybercriminals to do their business. Here’s what financial services and payment providers can do to manage the digital risk that can come with digital innovation.
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Digital Risk Management: Where do I start?
3/13/2019The fast moving, high stakes of digital business takes a new perspective. Knowing where to start clearing out the blind spots will help you understand what exposure there is and create an integrated strategy that enables innovation while managing risk.
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3/10/2019
Better. The 2019 RSA Conference theme celebrates our successes and urges us to continue improving the security of our digital world. This year's RSA keynote took us on a fictional journey, but also presented many key truths. There are actions we can take now to help bring about our better digital world -- our Bio-Digital era where we win with Trust.
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Why You Shouldn’t Worry about Risk
3/4/2019Risk professionals use the age-old question ‘What keeps you up at night?’ to identify an executive’s biggest concern. But worry is about fear and your executives shouldn’t be afraid in today’s world. They should have informed concerns. And you – as the security or risk person in the room – should be feeding insights to raise their visibility of the likelihood of events and diminish their distress on the negative impacts.
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2/13/2019
The start of the year brings many health-related resolutions. A balanced strategy in your personal health choices is the key to success with those resolutions. That same balanced perspective is at the forefront of conversations within the anti-fraud community – especially across omnichannel banking.
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Cybercrime Results Are In and The Winner Is…
2/12/2019If cybercrime were a legitimate business, it might be one stock market enthusiasts would consider investing in. Or at least that is what the data from 2018 indicates with growth in fraud attacks across every category. Learn how fraudsters are leveraging social media apps for cybercrime automation and get a complete snapshot of global fraud trends in the latest RSA® Quarterly Fraud Report.
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Data is the New Currency - Own Your Data or Someone Else Will
1/22/2019National Data Privacy Day reminds us how important it is to be empowered to take ownership to protect our privacy, control our digital footprints and advocate for the protection of privacy and data.
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Fighting Holiday Fraud: Lessons from Black Friday/Cyber Monday
1/3/2019Think you know what to be on guard for when it comes to Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping fraud? The latest statistics may surprise you--and help prepare you to fight fraud on these busy holiday shopping days in 2019.
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A Theoretical Riskicist's Guide to the Universe
12/13/2018Risk has so many variables it is really overwhelming to investigate the future and predict how risk management will transform. When thinking about the future of risk management, it must be approached much like we approach another really, really complex concept... the universe. The Riskicist's Guide leads you through the complexity and come out the other side with a better understanding of how best to manage risk in your organization.
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Rise of the Machines: A New World of Identity Governance
11/28/2018It may not be unfolding exactly as predicted in the Terminator movies, but the rise of the machines is upon us. How do you protect and govern robots and other machines in the age of AI and IoT? Here are three areas of focus for identity governance.
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Loyalty Points Fraud: Why Reward Programs are a Growing Target
11/26/2018You have worked hard to build reward points across the many companies you do business with. Perhaps you have been building up travel points for a family vacation or hotel rewards for a romantic weekend getaway. Unlike your bank or credit card, you are probably not checking the balance on your customer loyalty accounts, and fraudsters could be stealing reward points without you even knowing it. Here's everything you need to know about why it's happening, how they're doing it, and what consumers and businesses can do to avoid being defrauded.
