White Papers in Training & Security Leadership

Better Together: Security Awareness and Compliance Training

In establishing a robust security culture, the integration of security awareness and compliance training is vital. This cohesive approach bolsters the defense layer across digital and physical realms, reducing risks associated with noncompliance such as fines and reputational damage. There's significant content...

Building a Regulation-Resilient Security Awareness Program

International organisations are racing to comply with evolving cybersecurity regulations amidst a surge in cross-border cyber-attacks. These regulations aim to fortify defenses against threats to data, finances, and reputation. However, the complexity of directives often leaves CISOs and their teams feeling...

Google Cloud's Cybersecurity Edition: First Annual Generative AI Survey Results

Welcome to Google Cloud's Cybersecurity Edition of the First Annual Generative AI Survey, brought to you by Information Security Media Group (ISMG). This survey of over 400 business and cybersecurity professionals conducted in H2 2023 comprises responses from two groups, business leaders – comprising CIOs, board...

Understanding the Role of Cybersecurity Leaders: Adapting to a Rapidly Changing Threat Landscape

Global demand for qualified cybersecurity professionals has never been greater. Research shows there’s a shortage of nearly 4 million cybersecurity workers compared to the number of roles that need to be filled. This whitepaper will walk you through some of the common challenges newcomers to cybersecurity face...

The 2023 Cyberthreat Defense Report: Top 5 Insights

Now in its tenth year, the CDR has become a staple among IT security leaders and practitioners by helping them gauge their internal practices and security investments according to those of their counterparts across multiple countries and industries. If you want to know what your peers in IT are are thinking and doing,...

9 Traits You Need to Succeed as a Cybersecurity Leader

Companies are still struggling to make cybersecurity an integrated and proactive part of their strategy, operations and culture. Even though cybersecurity professionals are responsible for securing businesses, when companies make big, strategic decisions cybersecurity is often an afterthought, resulting in increased...

Research Survey Results Report: Evaluating Managed Security Provider Offerings in 2023

To outsource a non-core competence...or to risk control, understanding cost implications, and/or ability to evaluate functionality in competing offerings? That's the question...right? This report has been a collaboration between ISMG and Optiv since the beginning of 2023 when ISMG surveyed 426 senior cybersecurity...

Preparing for New Cybersecurity Reporting Requirements

Government-imposed rules on incident reporting by organizations impacted by cyberattacks are not new – many sectors have been subjected to them for decades. What is new is that governments are introducing new, more stringent incident reporting rules that will affect a broader set of organizations. The new...

Fortune 100 Company Accelerates Operational Agility with CyberArk Blue Prism Integration

Insurance Company Implements CyberArk Blue Prism Integration to Secure Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

ICS Cybersecurity: Protecting the Industrial Endpoints That Matter Most

A global, integrated oil and gas company operating across five continents is using digital transformation to grow its business, enter new markets and be more competitive. Critical to this effort is a cloud-based digitalization initiative to enable advanced analytics and decision-making, fueling greater efficiency,...

Checklist: Is Zero Trust In Your Cybersecurity Strategy?

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) is one of the biggest concepts in cybersecurity, and for good reason – it’s one of the most secure and reliable ways to protect critical assets, like systems, networks, applications, and data, from bad actors or inappropriate user access. Use this Zero Trust checklist as a...

Research Results Report: 2021 Cybersecurity Complexity Study, EU & UK

The 2021 Cybersecurity Complexity Study was conducted in the summer of 2021. Focused on EU & UK enterprises, the survey received more than 200 responses from organisations primarily in professional services (37%) and financial services (32%), but also in retail, utilities and manufacturing, mainly with...

Build Your Cloud Security Skills to Innovate With Confidence

Today, security is everyone’s business—and it’s the foundation of everything you do in the cloud. AWS Cloud security training helps you build your skills quickly and effectively—with the flexibility to learn on your own terms. Improving your security expertise can give you the confidence to innovate more...

The 10 Essential Capabilities of a Best-of-Breed SOAR

Ask a group of security analysts about the challenges of working in cybersecurity, and you'll likely hear some common themes, like a high volume of security alerts, too many security point-products to manage, and a shortage of skilled cybersecurity talent. Many teams have turned to security orchestration,...

Kubernetes Security Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

Organizations are using DevOps and Agile practices, coding in containers and microservices, and adopting Kubernetes at a record pace to help manage all these components. Even five years ago, the level of agility, speed, and flexibility the cloud-native stack enables was but a dream. Since Google first introduced...