Cybersecurity Shorts: Cybersecurity Response and Trends, Supply Chain Attacks, Updates on Fed Policy, Zero Trust and More

In today’s episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Cybersecurity Shorts Series, I’m joined by Dell Technologies’ John Boyle and Rick Martinez. John is a cybersecurity and supply chain defense product manager and Rick is a senior distinguished engineer and a senior director at Dell. Our conversation today revolved around the current state of the cybersecurity industry, supply chain attacks, fed policy and orders, why zero trust is a thing these days, and more.

Some highlights of the discussion with Rick and John included:

• Recent breaches and trends. Discussion around the major cybersecurity breaches that have recently happened, including:
• Colonial pipeline
• JBS Foods
• New Cooperative hack

and response and trends around those attacks, as well as how/whether COVID and other things have contributed to the frequency of attacks.

• Speaking of supply chain. Supply chain attacks are expected to quadruple in 2021 – and why a posture of ‘strong security protection’ is no longer enough.
• President Biden’s executive order. This order, signed at the end of July to protect America’s critical infrastructure and what that involves.
• Zero Trust. We’re hearing a lot about zero trust being the right security posture for the future. Rick elaborates a bit on that and provided some examples.
• What industries are most at risk? Our conversation moved to thoughts on what industries are most at risk and how organizations who don’t have a security posture in place are struggling.
• What can businesses do to protect themselves and some key technologies that can be adopted that will make a difference.
• Overview of Dell security offerings both above and below the OS worth considering.