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COVID-19 Pandemic Stresses the Importance of Business Continuity
Rich Curtiss, Director, Healthcare Cyber Risk Services, Coalfire
One of the more critical aspects of organizational risk management is that of Business Continuity. Many organizations overlook the importance of developing and instituting a Business Continuity Plan (BCP).
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Keeping Privacy Afloat During a Pandemic
Chalice Beam, Senior Manager, Health & Life Sciences, Coalfire
The world is navigating uncharted digital waters and facing evolving challenges to maintain patient privacy. Protected Health Information (PHI) is a ship sailing in a sea of digital risks and vulnerabilities. Humans wreak havoc at every turn – not always intentionally – and actions during times of uncertainty will have long-term effects. Read more
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Aligning Enterprise Cyber Risk and Business Strategy
Doug Hudson, Senior Director, Cyber Risk Advisory, Coalfire
Most business leaders have a contextual awareness of cyber risk and the threats facing their organizations. However, this contextual awareness rarely contributes to a clear, consolidated directive that can be applied across the organizations. Further, many organizations struggle to align their cyber risk management initiatives and their organization’s business strategies. This creates operational friction between those responsible for managing enterprise cyber risk and the business leaders’ goal of expanding their market presence, maintaining revenue streams, and developing new products and services. What is needed is an approach that aligns enterprise cyber risk and business strategy in a way that communicates how cyber risk can enable the business to expand its markets, protect revenue streams, and securely develop and deploy new products and services.
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The Basics of Exploit Development 2: SEH Overflows
Andy Bowden, Consultant, Coalfire Labs
In this article we will be writing an exploit for a 32-bit Windows application vulnerable to Structured Exception Handler (SEH) overflows. While this type of exploit has been around for a long time, it is still applicable to modern systems.
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Third Party Risk Management and the Cloud
Michael Reiter, Director, Cyber Risk Advisory, Coalfire
Security awareness and preparation are getting more widespread. Corporate boards and C-suite executives are taking Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) more seriously as they see what has happened to other enterprises in the not-so-distant past. I am speaking primarily of the top-level enterprises, but even smaller companies and less tech-oriented companies often have a hard time securing their infrastructure. If you are a widget supplier with a hundred employees, it’s hard—maybe impossible—to dedicate a full-time resource to things like patching, firewalls, identity and access management, and intrusion detection and incident response. The money just isn’t there.
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Quality is Job One When it Comes to the HITRUST CSF Assurance Program
Zach Shales, Director, Healthcare Certification, Coalfire
The HITRUST CSF® remains an essential security and privacy controls framework that addresses the multitude of security, privacy, and regulatory challenges facing both public and private sector organizations. As framework adoption increases across all industries, maintaining integrity is crucial, and continuous improvement should always be top of mind with any endeavor. This was HITRUST’s clear intent when they announced the formation of an Assessor Council back in 2016 and a Quality Subcommittee in 2017. Read more