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The CISO’s Guide to 2023 Spending Vigilance and Investments

Sharon Holland

The increase in ever-more complex data breaches and ransomware attacks is seeing the CISO bring the subject of the cybersecurity to the boardroom. It’s a proactive stance to provide adequate defences, rather a reactive move to counter a detected breach.

However, this all comes at a cost, and with The Economist suggesting that a global recession in 2023 is inevitable, justifying any big investments is going to be even harder.

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The Rise of Double Ransomware Extortion and How to Protect Against It

Data extortion is not a new tactic for threat actors. Big Game Hunting (BGH) is where actors steal and leak data to force ransom payments.  However, if this threat does not work and the victim does not pay this can result in an additional threat of releasing the data to someone else, usually a competitor – double ransomware extortion.

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How retailers are protecting against cyberattacks in a post pandemic marketplace

Retail is a sector that was quick to react to the pandemic; launching online stores if the retailer did not already have one, or expanding what they were offering online if they already had a store.  This included the addition of features such as curbside pick-up.  It is estimated the pandemic accelerated the shift to online retail by 5 years.

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