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Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
While the threat of ransomware is real, with the right preparation organizations can increase resiliency against an incident. A multi-layered approach is key.
The now-public whistleblower allegations that Twitter may have active foreign spies on its payroll are sure to raise concerns about insider threats at companies everywhere. But focusing only on potential spies is a mistake.
Cisco Duo customers may have had VoIP and SMS MFA logs exposed to an attacker in early April. Third party breach is the result of one of the provider's employees being phished. The attackers then seemed to target the MFA logs of specific clients of interest.
While there was no unauthorized access of user accounts for the third party breach, Dave’s users can expect phishing and identity fraud scams based on the information that was breached.
Personal and financial information for at least 57,000 parties doing business with Bank of America was exposed in a third party data breach in late October of last year. Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS), an insurance process management services provider, is the third party that was compromised.
Third party data breach struck Quest Diagnostics’ billing vendor which exposed patients’ sensitive information including social security numbers and medical information.
Third party data breach of two relocation services providers may have exposed the passports, financial information and other personal information of Canadian government employees dating back to 1999.
GE suffered a third-party data breach where sensitive employee information was exposed through their contractor, Canon BPS, who handles the company's human resource tasks.
About 90 major hotels and resorts worldwide had their security logs exposed in a third party data breach. Source of the breach is ironically from their management company's intrusion detection system.










