Given the ongoing prevalence of advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks, organisations have every right to be wary. To prevent APT attacks, they simply need to practise basic cyber hygiene.
While the wheels of digital transformation were set in motion much earlier, the pandemic accelerated their speed. It significantly impacted how organisations approach their IT ecosystem and security. Today’s landscape, with no perimeter, requires a Zero Trust approach.
Code obfuscation prevents the reverse-engineering of programs and is used to protect sensitive intellectual property (IP) such as algorithms that a company doesn’t want bad actors or competitors to see; the foremost example of this being security code.
Implementing SASE is unlike rolling out any other technology. It requires dedicated coordination between security and networking teams, a streamlined security and networking architecture, and a fundamental understanding of the business goals and current processes.
The CFIUS has broad authority to suspend, modify, or prohibit a transaction from closing in order to address national security concerns. CFIUS filings have risen in the wake of FIRRMA which widened the scope of CFIUS compliance to include certain minority investments, specifically in the field of emerging and critical technologies.
Three common problems regularly hold back cybersecurity strategies – not testing enough, not resolving or disclosing known vulnerabilities, and not having proper security programs in place to measure testing effectiveness.
With consumer awareness of privacy at an all time high, there is not only regulatory risk, but also reputational and brand risk for those CMOs who drop the ball – an increasingly likely occurrence as the changes to the familiar status quo mount.
Human error accounts for the vast majority of security breaches largely due to successful phishing campaigns. Here are tips on fortifying the human firewall via the Fogg model of behavior design.
When the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) takes effect and replaces the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) on January 1, 2023, businesses will have new privacy obligations with respect to personal information of employees, applicants for employment, independent contractors, owners, directors, officers, and their beneficiaries and emergency contacts who are California residents.
Privacy-enhancing technologies, like homomorphic encryption, AI-generated synthetic data, and federated learning support privacy enhancing processes and can help meet data protection challenges.
