King County Metro, the transit department serving communities across Washington State, has instituted a campaign to prevent harassment on public transit.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98559-king-county-metro-starts-anti-harassment-campaign-on-seattle-trains

Compromised mobile devices can present a cybersecurity threat to organizations. Here are 10 steps security teams can use to assess the risk level of a cell phone.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98557-10-signs-a-mobile-device-has-been-infected-with-malware

Maryland religious and nonprofit community organizations will receive $10,691,398 to enhance security measures and training.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98558-maryland-house-of-worships-receive-10m-to-bolster-security

According to a Netwrix report, 61% of respondents in the healthcare industry suffered a cyberattack on their cloud infrastructure within the last 12 months.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98556-86-of-cloud-attacks-in-healthcare-result-in-financial-consequences

IT auditors’ lack of hands-on skill in information technology influences data breach likelihood and technical evidence interpretation for critical infrastructure, according to The Next Generation Cybersecurity Auditor study_._

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98555-technical-competency-gaps-in-151-000-it-auditors-in-the-audit-industry

The 2022 Security Benchmark Report recognizes security leaders achieving great things in training, making strides in diversity, equity and inclusion, adding value and enabling the business and more.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98537-the-2022-security-benchmark-report-achievers

The purpose of The Security Benchmark Report is to create a database to measure security teams and organizations versus their peers, both among the industry as a whole and among individual sectors, for even better comparison.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98528-the-2022-security-benchmark-methodology

The 2022 Security Benchmark Report includes comparisons of all security functions, sector reports and top critical issues. This editorial report provides security teams with metrics they can use to measure their security functions against their peers.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98520-the-2022-security-benchmark-report-main-report

Organizations have significantly matured their security postures since last year in response to operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity threats.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98552-ot-ics-cybersecurity-threats-remain-high

9/11 inspired Adam Marrè, former video game developer, to join the army and become an FBI agent and CISO. In this op-ed, Marrè argues it doesn’t take a computer genius to embark on a successful cyber career.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98551-from-video-game-developer-to-ciso-how-to-successfully-make-career-pivots

How can organizations focus on building foundational security measures to take power away from cybercriminals?

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98550-protecting-operations-and-data-against-cyberattacks

Security consultancy Advanced Data Risk Management (ADRM) has been awarded the 2022 Elliot A. Boxerbaum Award by SecuritySpecifiers for excellence in security design.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98549-adrm-receives-2022-elliot-a-boxerbaum-award-for-security-design

108 million accounts were breached worldwide in Q3 2022, according to new cybersecurity research from Surfshark.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98548-over-100-million-accounts-were-breached-in-q3-2022

Scott Schafer has been named the 2022 recipient of the George R. Lippert Memorial Award from the Security Industry Association (SIA).

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98547-scott-shafer-receives-the-2022-sia-george-r-lippert-award

Organizations and their security teams must understand how bots are attacking APIs to better mitigate this cybersecurity risk.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98546-the-role-of-bots-in-api-attacks

Organizations must take proactive steps to address the fundamental challenges of data protection, data storage and data compliance processes with cyberstorage solutions.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98545-with-record-high-data-breaches-now-is-the-time-for-cybersecurity-storage-adoption

With a constant flow of visitors, healthcare settings need to balance security with visitor experience to maintain safe hospitals. Using biometrics can help.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98544-the-future-of-healthcare-visitor-management-will-leverage-biometrics

Marc Rogers, internationally-renowned ‘white hat’ hacker and member of the U.S. Ransomware Taskforce, has joined Q-Net Security as Chief Security Officer (CSO).

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98542-marc-rogers-joins-q-net-security-as-chief-security-officer

Security executives, government security leaders and their direct reports will connect this fall in Washington, D.C. for the 2022 SECURITY 500 Conference.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98543-attend-the-security-500-conference-in-washington-dc-on-november-14

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released the first iteration of the Cross-Sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs).

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/98540-cisa-releases-critical-infrastructure-cybersecurity-performance-goals