Where encryption was once the central aim of ransomware attacks, it has now been relegated to a supporting role, and data exfiltration has become the weapon of choice.
Developments in Delaware’s Caremark doctrine for breaches of fiduciary duty have paved a narrow path for plaintiffs to hold directors liable for failing to adequately address and oversee their company’s cybersecurity and data privacy risks.
Law enforcement agencies around the world are embracing new predictive policing technology that will help them spot criminals before a crime ever takes place. However, communities often have little or no idea of why or how this technology is being used, and that raises some important privacy and human rights concerns.
Learn about the key initiatives, which can help reduce regulatory, operational and reputational risk, while establishing preparedness for CCPA enforcement.
Post Brexit any alteration to the current data laws UK businesses must abide by will have far reaching implications, impacting where information can be stored and how it can be shared.
With the executive order signed, leading industry standards organizations should be heavily involved to help apply standards and regulations to make sure all connected devices have a proper level of security to create a secure ecosystem and prevent further critical infrastructure attacks.
As more recipients get wise to the usual phishing tactics, attackers are adopting another strategy: pretexting. Protecting an organization against pretexting attacks requires a layered approach that includes preventing attack messages from reaching employees, and making employees aware of how pretexting works.
Hackers are reverse engineering mobile apps and embedding malicious code to steal data for downstream attacks or to cause other direct harm to the user.
Given the growth of wire fraud and grey area when it comes to liability, creating a system that guarantees protection has become incredibly important. The best way to prevent uncertainty about who is at fault is to prevent the risk from happening all together.
2021 was the year of ransomware, with attacks almost doubling in 2020. Cyber insurance providers, reeling from an historic couple of years, are maturing their qualification processes and raising the bar for pay-outs, so businesses can no longer rely on insurance alone as a protection and recovery strategy.
