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‘It’s going to take a lot of digging’: The Pentagon’s long search to see if anyone’s hiding in its networks

The military and intelligence community is scrambling to conduct a daunting hunt across disconnected networks to assess potential damage from an extensive federal cybersecurity breach by suspected Russian hackers.

As it searches for lurkers, one complicating factor is that the cybersecurity arm of the Department of Homeland Security warned Thursday that hackers used other means to access government and business networks beyond a software platform from contractor SolarWinds, used by the Pentagon, the military and intelligence offices.

Massive hack of US government launches search for answers as Russia named top suspect

The US government’s ability to carry out its investigation is uneven and may vary by agency, said Chris Kubic, chief information security officer at Fidelis Cybersecurity and a former top cybersecurity official at the National Security Agency.

“If they don’t have the right tools in place, if they aren’t collecting the application logs, the system logs that allow them to do the analysis, it can be difficult for them to determine what was exposed,” Kubic said.

Cybersecurity Leadership: ‘2020 Has Been the Perfect Storm’

With COVID-19 as a backdrop and 5G on the horizon, what will be 2021’s top issues in identifying, protecting and defending against attacks across a dramatically expanded threat landscape? Anup Ghosh, CEO of Fidelis Cybersecurity, joins a panel of other CEO/CISOs to address the challenges of the new year.

Back to the Office: Managing the Risks

As organizations that shifted to a remote workforce consider allowing some workers to return to the office environment, CISOs must reassess their security infrastructures, says Chris Kubic of Fidelis Cybersecurity, who formerly was CISO at the National Security Agency.

The impact of Covid-19 on the way IT services are delivered

Covid-19 hasn’t driven the need for organisational changes with respect to IT and security job functions and roles but it has certainly changed the way IT services are delivered. Many companies have reassessed their level of IT and security staffing looking for efficiencies to offset reduced revenue, have had to quickly deploy and expand remote access and endpoint security solutions to support work at home employees, and have accelerated their migration to cloud-based services, for example, digital transformation.

Winning the Cyber Battle

Data security is still the number one IT concern for businesses worldwide. A research carried out by ThoughtWorks in 2019 revealed that 33 percent of UK business leaders said that ‘data safety and cyber risk’ was a bigger concern than the challenges of Brexit. Roll on six months and those concerns have increased exponentially as millions of people are now working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic. The story is the same for businesses in many countries across the globe and to address this, CIOs and CDOs are consistently ‘adding’ bolt-on security measures.