Blog Posts Tagged with "breaches"
Gartner SOAR Adoption Rate Prediction: From 1% to 15% by 2020 - Why Should You Care?
September 06, 2018 Added by:Rishi Bhargava
SOAR tools allow for an effective way of fighting security threats through a central collection of intelligence that can be quickly transformed into action.
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How to Prevent Cloud Configuration Errors
May 29, 2018 Added by:Reuven Harrison
With unified visibility into the whole network, at all levels, IT managers will be able to strike a balance between security and functionality.
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Access Management Increases Security, Cuts Costs
April 22, 2016 Added by:Dean Wiech
While IT spending may be cut back, investments in identity and access management (IAM) solutions continue to grow because of security issues, flexibility and an overall cost savings.
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Celebrity Privacy Breaches and High School Physics
February 01, 2013 Added by:Danny Lieberman
In our previous post on patient privacy, we noted that patient data loss is a lot like planes disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle – no one really knows where the planes disappeared to, since the people on the planes never return to tell the story...
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Privacy Crusaders – Their Own Worst Enemies
January 28, 2013 Added by:Danny Lieberman
It is no accident that the largest healthcare organizations have the highest rate of patient-privacy breaches. The old saying – “the bigger they are, the harder they fall” is true, but more than that is happening when it comes to patient-privacy breaches in America as a whole...
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Closing the Vault Door
December 18, 2012 Added by:Suzanne Widup
For those of you who have appreciated The Leaking Vault series of data breach reports, I have some sad news. As I was days away from releasing the third installment, I received an email from Brian Martin with the Open Security Foundation stating that I do not have permission to use their data without a license...
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The "January Effect" - An Annual Phenomenon Since 2009
December 16, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
A phenomenon that I've noticed each year since 2009 - a major breach or act of cyber warfare that kicks off the New Year. It may start in December and then get publicized in January, or happen in January and get publicized a bit later but it has happened four years in a row now so I fully expect it to occur once again...
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The Barnes and Noble Breach Take Aways
December 05, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
Put video monitoring on all your POS locations. This does not stop such a swap from occurring, but it does at least record such an event if it does occur. This is particularly important in situations where the customer also acts as cashier as with any self checkout situation...
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Why I'm Upset About the S.C. Department of Revenue Breach
December 04, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
I’m a South Carolina taxpayer, and therefore, a potential victim of the massive South Carolina Department of Revenue Breach. I work in the identity theft and data risk industry, so when I heard about how everything was being handled and what was being offered, I was upset...
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Suing our way to Better Security... Redux
November 14, 2012 Added by:Jayson Wylie
One of the latest publicly known Government Data Breaches has incurred yet another lawsuit for the people by the people’s lawyers. Monetary and punitive damages that can be incurred through Personal Identifiable Information (PII) loss resulting in fraud or victimization...
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Is it really so simple to crack your password?
October 29, 2012 Added by:Plagiarist Paganini
The numerous attacks and data breaches occurred during the last 12 months demonstrate that despite attention to security, the principal causes of the incidents are leak of authentication processes, absence of input validation on principal applications, and of course the human factor...
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October Is National Cyber Security Month
October 01, 2012 Added by:Allan Pratt, MBA
No information is guaranteed to be 100% breach-free. You must be vigilant when it comes to knowing what information about you is online. No business entity is solely responsible for securing the Internet. You play the most important role in protecting your own digital life...
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Breaches: Digital Transparency, WARPs, and Collective Intelligence
September 19, 2012 Added by:Christopher Laing
For collective intelligence directed at security breaches, I would argue, that an effective means of transparently sharing details without fear of recrimination and embarrassment would greatly reduce the impact of such breaches. Fine idea, but how can this be achieved?
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How to Handle a Credit Card Breach While Abroad
September 13, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
A 60-day window covers two billing cycles, enough for most account-conscious consumers who keep an eye on their spending. Victims of fraudulent credit card charges only wind up paying the unauthorized charges if they fail to report the credit card fraud within 60 days...
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Rapid 7 Analysis of Data Breach Incidents
September 11, 2012 Added by:Plagiarist Paganini
Excluding attacks by foreign governments and cyber criminals that exploit 0-days, with best practices and the adoption of compliance at the current standard, in matters of security it is possible to avoid data breach incidents, or at least reduce the amount of exposed information...
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Utility Breach Prompts Enforcement and Industry-Wide Security Review
September 06, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
Expect an uptick in privacy enforcement by state utility regulators. Utilities across the country are advised to review their information security programs (including vendor management requirements) and breach response processes to address their regulators' concerns...
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- Augmented Reality Will Compromise the Privacy and Safety of Attack Victims
- Ending the Cloud Security Blame Game
- Edge Computing Set to Push Security to the Brink
- Make It So: Accelerating the Enterprise with Intent-Based Network Security
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- Why the Latest Marriott Breach Should Make Us "Stop and Think" About Security Behaviors
- Examining Potential Election Vulnerabilities: Are They Avoidable?
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- Cyberattacks a Top Concern for Gov Workers