Federal regulators have smacked health insurer Anthem with a record $16 million HIPAA settlement in the wake of a cyberattack revealed in 2015, which impacted nearly 79 million individuals. What missteps does the settlement highlight?
The Pentagon is warning that a data breach at a third-party travel management service provider exposed records for an estimated 30,000 civilian and military personnel. The breach alert follows a recent GAO report warning of serious cybersecurity shortcomings in U.S. weapon systems.
Security ratings are increasingly popular as a means of selecting and monitoring vendors. However, ratings can also be used as a means of benchmarking your own organization for internal and external uses.
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Security ratings are increasingly popular as a means of selecting cybersecurity vendors. But Ryan Davis at CA Veracode also uses BitSight's ratings as a means of benchmarking his own organization for internal and external uses.
In Australia, it can take as few as 15 minutes to steal someone's phone number, a type of attack known as SIM hijacking. Such attacks are rising, but mobile operators have no plans to change the authentication required around number porting, which can be set in motion online with minimal personal information.
In today's risk landscape, third-party risk management (TPRM) programs are becoming increasingly critical for businesses. In fact, Gartner estimates that by 2020, 75% of Fortune Global 500 companies will treat vendor risk management as a Board-level initiative to mitigate brand and reputation risk. However, there are...
A recent incident involving a chronic care management company spotlights how paying a ransom to recover decryption keys from ransomware attackers can put sensitive data at additional risk. Security experts offer insights on how to prepare for the many challenges posed by attacks.
Identifying the right controls to manage specific risks is a vital component of an enterprisewide security program, says Gregory Wilshusen of the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning will have a significant impact on lowering the cost of securing an organization because it will reduce the need for advanced skillsets, predicts Rapid7's Richard Moseley.
To build out the business structure and technical functionality that enables your organization to deliver products and services quickly and efficiently, you have to know how you're doing compared to how your competitors and peers are doing.
In other words, CIOs today must be highly effective at...
Without fostering feelings of responsibility and accountability for cybersecurity among employees, security awareness training won't necessarily make an organization any safer or less vulnerable.
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Why current awareness practices don't work;
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Big data and artificial intelligence have sparked a paradigm shift in risk management. From cybersecurity to PR to logistics, continuous monitoring is already making a major impact.
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How can security ratings help you identify, quantify, and mitigate cyber risk? Smart benchmarking requires objective, verifiable and actionable metrics on security performance.
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To create a framework for effective cybersecurity benchmarking;
Security ratings can be used to...
Look at information security through the lens of business risk, and you'll begin to make decisions about security in light of their impact on the business. With security threats emerging faster than ever, what information is most important to protect? What happens if it's not protected? What strategic business...
A coherent risk analysis program tailored to the organization is a vital component of any effort to improve cybersecurity and meet regulatory requirements, says attorney Shawn Tuma.
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