Historically, to become a successful hacker, you had to have the knowledge and skills to create your own attacks from scratch. However, all that has changed with the proliferation of the underground market for phishing-as-a-service.
While one might think that health care providers are the primary entities that could potentially leak, share, or exploit private patient data, the truth is that the most audacious HIPAA violations are being perpetrated every day by Big Tech.
While roughly half of all businesses are using some type of monitoring tool to detect insider threats, the truth is that none of the most commonly deployed solutions can entirely prevent leaks of sensitive documents.
New CMMC 2.0 pares down the scope of the original requirements, allowing greater flexibility and relaxing the rules for DoD contractors and subcontractors who do not directly handle sensitive or classified information.
UK SOX is coming and many organizations are feeling worried about exhausting all existing compliance resources, incurring high costs, or the amount of testing and data management required to ensure compliance.
Understanding the value of intellectual property and ensuring they are protected is mandatory for companies looking to thrive in a digital ecosystem. Blockchain technology can help establish a proof of existence, creatorship and ownership of intellectual property by timestamping and tracking computer-aided design (CAD) files.
There is an increasing overlap of cyber and physical security breaches, crime and espionage. Cybercriminals slip between the gaps of those tasked with physical, information and cyber security, as they often do not coordinate their activities and see their realms as completely separate.
For nonprofits, it’s important to be aware and be protected from cybersecurity risks. While the core monetary focus of any nonprofit is always to helping those in need, some expense must be made on protecting nonprofits from hacking and cybercrime.
When data accuracy, quality, storage and security suffer, it can lead to poor decision making, data breaches and non-compliance issues. This is where data remediation becomes necessary.
Organizations that have more mature data governance and information security programs are likely to have some level of integration between these functions already, but many continue to struggle with the idea and often treat them as separate, siloed programs.
