Suing the CISO

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Are CISOs getting sued? Yes. Investors filed a lawsuit that specifically names the CISO of SolarWinds as a defendant. Is this the beginning of a trend to sue the Chief Information Security Officer after a cyber incident?

#InfoSec twitter reacts, and so do the experts on today's podcast: Rebecca Rakoski is co-founder and Managing Partner of XPAN Law Partners, and Glenn Kapetansky is Interim CISO at the University of Chicago Medical School and CSO at Trexin.

Thank you to Trend Micro, a global leader in cloud and XDR security, for being our premier podcast partner, and for providing new research for this episode after analysis of millions of Linux security events.

Resource Links:

• SecureWorld News story, "Suing the CISO: SolarWinds Fires Back": https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/ciso-lawsuit-solarwinds

• Trend Micro's Linux Threat Report 2021 1H: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/linux-threat-report-2021-1h-linux-threats-in-the-cloud-and-security-recommendations

• SecureWorld conferences: https://www.secureworldexpo.com/events

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