THE SCIENCE BEHIND SECURITY

The need to address human risk management, email and phishing attacks, and generative AI among users across organisations of all types provides the backdrop for Mimecast’s SOECS 2024 report Based on interviews with 1,100 CISOs and other information technology professionals from numerous industrial sectors and six countries, the report documents the precise nature of these risks and the steps that are being taken to overcome them. Download Now

The phrase “security culture” is being used a lot more often within organizations, during conversations with other security professionals and even in the media. But there is a problem: the definition is not necessarily clear, and the steps to start working toward creating a positive security culture are even less clear. Organizations only have a vague idea what that really looks like or how to accomplish it. This guide exists to provide a high-level look at what security culture is and what actions you can take to begin favorably changing the security culture within your organization. The goal of this guide is not to give a detailed deep dive into all things security culture (though we’ll provide resources for that in the future); instead it is to help readers understand the fundamentals of what security culture is and what steps you can take to move the culture needle in your organization. It is important to understand that making a meaningful culture shift is not something that happens overnight. Dedication and consistency will lead you to great results. The more established your security culture is, the easier it is to maintain, and new employees tend to align with this culture rather quickly. We are social creatures. Many behaviors are caught rather than taught. When we start a new job, we subconsciously adopt many of the behaviors we see. If people lock their workstations every time they walk away from their computers, new employees often pick up habits like this without giving it much thought at all because it has been socially modeled as just the way things are done here. This is the beauty of a strong and present security culture; once momentum is gained, it becomes easier to maintain. Download Now

Enterprises have been moving to hybrid cloud environments for years, whether for cost savings, data sovereignty, or geographic reasons. As IT environments grow increasingly complex, and security and compliance continue to present new challenges, many organizations are looking for a more effective approach to application delivery This latest solution guide from SDxCentral discusses how to: • Ensure application availability, security, and responsiveness • Create flexible, cost-saving hybrid cloud environments • Improve troubleshooting times Download Now