Intelligent CISO Issue 27 | Page 9

news Venafi reveals security concern about election infrastructure According to Venafi’s survey, 70% of security professionals believe their local governments cannot adequately defend election infrastructure against domestic and international cyberattacks. In addition, 75% believe that the spread of disinformation is the greatest threat to election integrity. “Many of the cyberattacks targeting elections come from machines, which can automatically spread information and direct attacks on the systems that count votes,” said Kevin Bocek, Vice President of Security Strategy and Threat Intelligence at Venafi. “Security professionals are rightly concerned about cyberthreats impacting the democratic process. Organisations may have difficulty curbing deceptive or inaccurate information from people – however, they can keep their machines from spreading malicious disinformation.” enafi, an inventor and leading provider of machine V identity protection, has announced the results of a survey on election infrastructure cybersecurity. The survey evaluated the opinions of 485 IT security professionals attending RSA Conference 2020. Bocek continued: “The election season is already in process and COVID-19 adds a new layer of security complications. Cyberattackers may take advantage of this period of uncertainty to undermine further public confidence by spreading disinformation. As a result, it’s not surprising security professionals are concerned that governments won’t be able to safeguard election data.” DIMENSION DATA TO PROVIDE INCIDENT RESPONSE REMEDIATION ASSISTANCE FREE TO UAE HOSPITALS imension Data, an Africanborn global systems integrator D and managed services provider, is offering Incident Response Remediation assistance at no cost to UAE hospitals combatting the pandemic, following a significant spike in COVID-19 themed cyberattacks on the healthcare sector. Dimension Data’s service will enable affected UAE hospitals to rapidly restore operations after a successful cyberattack and thus continue to deliver critical services to patients. Public and private hospitals, as well as acute care hospitals, urgent care clinics, community health centres and other emergency care settings, are all eligible to 40-hours of incident response support, at no cost, on the condition that they are directly providing care to COVID-19 patients. “The incredible rate at which the virus has spread has overwhelmed the healthcare sector. Dealing with the impact of the virus is challenging enough without the added complication of critical operations being derailed by cyberattacks,” said Redouane Gaouar, Director Go-to-Market Practices and Strategic Partner Alliances at Dimension Data Middle East. “By offering our incident response service at no cost, our intention is to get front line doctors and nurses as well as all supporting functions trying to work in a compromised hospital, back to saving lives as quickly as possible.” Redouane Gaouar, Director Go-to-Market Practices and Strategic Partner Alliances at Dimension Data Middle East www.intelligentciso.com | Issue 27 9