I. Big brother wants to watch everything
7 nations - Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the USA, the UK, Japan and India have issued a joint international statement that asks technology companies to build a backdoor into their software.
Governments come together to fire the next salvo in the fight between national security vs. privacy.
CISO Check:
Who do you fight for? Privacy or national security?
How will you safeguard privacy and enterprise security if you know the products you are using have an official backdoor built in?
II. Threat intel sharing - bang for the buck?
Threat intel sharing platforms are built for one purpose - sharing threat intel.
Companies are opting out of the DHS led threat intel sharing platform because it does not give them the one thing for which they signed up for - relevant and actionable threat intel.
CISO Check:
How many critical indicators of compromise (IOCs) did your threat intel data provide you in the last three months?
Have you defined metrics to measure the usefulness of threat intel data for your organisation?
III. Quote of the week
If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there. - Madeleine Albright