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Creating Essential Cyber Policies During the PandemicCybersecurity policies are crucial to preventing costly data breaches and cyber threats. However, many policies were written before COVID-19. Now, our work culture has drastically changed. Learn the most effective cybersecurity policies for the new normal, backed by data from the survey conducted of over 1,000 CISOs.
Driving Cybersecurity Performance: Improving results with evidence-based analysisVerizon Business and ESI ThoughtLab examine findings from Driving Cybersecurity Performance to assess what cybersecurity investments generate the most ROI as large firms fend off rising cyberattacks. Presenters include David Grady, Verizon Chief Security Evangelist and Lou Celi.
What Every CISO Must Know for 2020 Cybersecurity Best PracticesCheck Point Software and ESI ThoughtLab present the latest cybersecurity trends from 2020. This webinar looks at findings from the Driving Cybersecurity Performance study to explore how businesses can secure their enterprise in an increasingly digital world.
Driving Cybersecurity Performance: Improving results through evidence-based analysis was sponsored by a diverse coalition of companies that specialize in cybersecurity technology solutions and insurance. Each organization is an expert in its domain and would be happy to share its insights on the research results and what they mean for your business. They can also help you benchmark your company's approach with your peers highlighted in the study through use of our benchmarking platform and database.
Connected vehicles use different technologies, such as cellular networks, to assist drivers. This connection enables a wide variety of features, such as navigation guidance, to communicate with the surrounding driving environment. These features can connect to mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices to leverage apps and services, as well as to other vehicles. Some examples of connected vehicle capabilities include:
Vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) technologies may be available in the near future and provide drivers even further information about upcoming hazards and road infrastructure.
There are varying levels of automated vehicles, ranging from partially automated, which allows for some driver assistance features, to fully automated, which does not require human intervention to operate. However, connected and automated vehicles (levels 3 to 5) are not currently available for public purchase in Canada. The testing of such vehicles is now underway by researchers and developers to promote their safety.
Automated technologies have many benefits, such as driver assistance systems that may reduce road incidents and anticipate dangerous situations and provide convenient transportation for individuals with limited mobility.
Information technology (IT) has become indispensable, underpinning economic growth over the past decades. As organisations of all sizes in both the public and private sector become ever more interconnected and reliant on IT products and services such as cloud-based systems and artificial intelligence, they are increasingly exposed to cyber risks - the risk of financial loss, disruption or reputational damage to an organisation resulting from the failure of its IT systems. These episodes include malicious cyber incidents (cyber attacks) where the threat actor intends to do harm (eg ransomware attacks, hacking incidents or data theft by employees).
Cyber incidents are becoming more sophisticated and their costs difficult to quantify. Using a unique database of more than 100,000 cyber events across sectors, we first document the characteristics of cyber incidents and obtain some stylised facts. The richness of the database also lets us examine the relationship between firm-, sector- and event-specific characteristics, and the relative cost of cyber events.
Cyber costs are higher for larger firms and for incidents that affect several organisations at once. The financial sector incurs a larger number of cyber attacks but suffers lower costs, on average, because of its greater investment in IT security. The use of cloud services is associated with lower costs, especially when cyber incidents are relatively small. By contrast, as cloud providers become systemically important, cloud dependence is likely to increase tail risks. Crypto-related activities, which are largely unregulated, are particularly vulnerable to cyber attacks.
Cyber incidents are becoming more sophisticated and their costs difficult to quantify. Using a unique database of more than 100,000 cyber events across sectors, we document the characteristics of cyber incidents. Cyber costs are higher for larger firms and for incidents that impact several organisations simultaneously. The financial sector is exposed to a larger number of cyber attacks but suffers lower costs, on average, thanks to proportionately greater investment in information technology (IT) security. The use of cloud services is associated with lower costs, especially when cyber incidents are relatively small. As cloud providers become systemically important, cloud dependence is likely to increase tail risks. Crypto-related activities, which are largely unregulated, are particularly vulnerable to cyber attacks.
Cybersecurity is a CEO-level issue. The risks of cyberattacks span functions and business units, companies and customers. And given the stakes and the challenging decisions posed by becoming cyberresilient, making the decisions necessary can only be achieved with active engagement from the CEO and other members of the senior-management team.
This listing is comprised of school districts (SD), charter schools (CS), non-public schools (NP), intermediate units (IU), area vocational technical schools (AVTS), private driver training schools (PDTS), community colleges, universities, correspondence courses (CC) and online theory driver education programs (Online) that have been approved to provide driver education programs in Pennsylvania for the period from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023.
Please Note: Schools on this list have complete driver education programs consisting of at least 30 hours of theory instruction and six hours of behind-the-wheel instruction, UNLESS it is followed by a designation of BTW, CC, CT, Online, or R/P.
The designation CC means that the school has an approved driver education program consisting of theory instruction via a correspondence/independent study course that is considered equivalent to 30 hours of classroom instruction.
The designation Online means that the school has an approved driver education program consisting of theory instruction via the internet and is considered equivalent to 30 hours of classroom instruction.
Dr. Herb Lin is senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and research fellow at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford University.
Not so for cyber weapons. No one would argue that a nation has more cyber power in a military sense if it has 100 identical CD-ROMs with a software-based cyber weapon on it. For cyber weapons, military power accrues as the result of research and development (R&D) processes.
The consequence is that as a general rule, a targetable cyber weapon has to be customized to its target(s) to a much greater degree, and thus any given cyber weapon is likely to be usable over a much smaller target set than for a kinetic weapon. Thus, the cost of a cyber weapon, which is almost entirely in R&D cannot be amortized over as many targets as would be the case for a kinetic weapon. This fact necessarily increases the cost-per-target destroyed.
Lastly, the development of a given cyber weapon may entail specific knowledge the function and behavior of the target. Cyberattacks on electric grids will almost surely require specialized knowledge about the equipment controlled by the targeted computers (e.g., their programming, their vulnerabilities). In some cases, test facilities may need to be constructed to allow operators to test their weapons before they are used operationally. Accounting for the cost of acquiring specialized non-cyber knowledge and test facilities will drive up cost estimates as well.
The next steps in determining the true cost of cyber weapons are to find usable numbers for the various cost drivers (which neither this piece nor Smeets original article do) and then doing an apples-to-apples comparison to kinetic weapons. But as the discussion above suggests, some of those numbers will be very hard to tease out of infrastructure budgeting that supports the entire national security enterprise.
On software alone, Linux comes out way ahead, especially if you are a command-line kind of hacker, but the driver support is an issue. This is that phenomena where you buy the HP or Dell laptop with Windows pre-installed, and then wipe it to install Linux - only to find that the Linux drivers for interacting with the hardware are somewhat generic.
The Windows drivers are usually written by the laptop vendor to ensure they work perfectly with their hardware. You can find this for Linux if you purchase your laptop from a company that ships their hardware with Linux and Linux only, and writes their own custom drivers for their hardware.
This is why System 76 is such a great choice, as they develop and maintain their own drivers for Ubuntu, which is the only operating system they ship with. As a result, their interaction with both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is very high quality, and questionable wireless tools become a lot more stable and useful.