Author: Jeff Peters

From the Winter 2015 Issue

Cybersecurity and the C-Suite: 10 questions every executive should be able to answer

Author(s):

Jeff Peters, Editor, SurfWatch Labs

As cyber threats proliferate and become a bigger part of the public discourse, the management and responsibility of those threats is increasingly moving towards the highest levels of an organization – corporate executives and the board of directors. Yet many of those in the C-Suite do not have a sufficient high-level understanding of the risks … Read more

From the Summer 2014 Issue

Healthcare is a Growing Target for Cybercrime, and It’s Only Going to Get Worse

Author(s):

Jeff Peters, Editor, SurfWatch Labs

2014 is off to a rough start for healthcare when it comes to cybercrime. A SANS-Norse report stated that healthcare organizations are facing an “epidemic of compromises.”1  A two-year study by Essentia Health, which operates roughly 100 facilities in the Midwest, concluded that most hospital equipment is easy to hack.2   And in April the FBI … Read more