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Cyber Defense eMagazine August 2019

Cyber Defense eMagazine August Edition for 2019 #CDM #CYBERDEFENSEMAG @CyberDefenseMag by @Miliefsky a world-renowned cybersecurity expert and the Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine as part of the Cyber Defense Media Group

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smarter. Network perimeters aren’t dead. Rather, they’ve gone everywhere. We now need internal<br />

perimeters around all the uncontrollable endpoints in our networks.<br />

Resilience is also key, because perfect protection and containment are not possible. Experienced<br />

organizations balance their efforts between protection and recovery, recognizing that incidents are<br />

inevitable, but serious damage is not. Resilience means understanding your infrastructure ahead of an<br />

attack, thinking through how an incident could spread, and building response and containment plans, just<br />

the way first responders anticipate and practice for the inevitable bad days.<br />

IoT presents novel challenges for today’s CISO. The three-step strategy recommended here starts by<br />

understanding the categories of IoT devices that you use (whether you planned to or not).<br />

Next, realize that standard techniques we use to control general-purpose computers don’t work, and so<br />

we have to rely on segmentation. Third, we cannot expect to stop all incidents, so having a well thought<br />

out containment plan, based on real knowledge of your environment, is essential to damage control. This<br />

is how CISOs can deal with the IoT headache and deliver resilience in this complex new world.<br />

About the Author<br />

Dr. Mike Lloyd has more than 25 years of experience modeling and<br />

controlling fast-moving, complex security and network systems and<br />

holds 21 patents. He joined RedSeal as the Chief Technology Officer<br />

(CTO) in 2004 and has been growing the company’s brand and<br />

reputation through its technological innovations ever since.<br />

Dr. Mike can be reached online at RedSeal’s website<br />

https://www.redseal.net/<br />

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