How Should We Gauge a Company's Cyber Health?

Defense in Depth

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As an outside observer, how can you tell if a company is staying cyber healthy? While there is no financial statement equivalency to let you know the strength of a company's security profile, there are signals that'll give you a pretty good idea.

Check out this post for the discussions that are the basis of our conversation on this week’s episode co-hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO, LinkedIn. We welcome our guest Matt Honea, CISO, SmartNews.

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In this episode:

• As an outside observer, how can you tell if a company is staying cyber healthy?
• What are the signals to let you know the strength of a company's security profile?
• How do we go about trying to determine a company's cyber health?
• Why is it important to know about another company's cyber health?