Here is a quick lesson on how to run your organizations cybersecurity starting with the two most important laws of cybersecurity. Law No. 1: If There Is a Vulnerability, It Will Be Exploited Law No. 2: Everything Is Vulnerable in Some Way No matter what the concerns or problems are [...]
Medical information can be worth ten times more than credit card numbers on the dark web. Cyber criminals can use this data to create fake IDs to buy medical equipment or drugs or combine a patient number with a false provider number and file fictional claims with insurers. Consumers often [...]
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win - Sun Tzu. The Art of War
And so it begins. Effective November 1st in Canada, breach readiness takes on a whole new meaning. New regulations regarding mandatory notification, reporting and record keeping of privacy breaches under Canada’s federal data protection law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) come into effect. In addition to [...]
10 years ago a bulk of cybersecurity attacks focused on defeating cyber infrastructure like firewalls, routers and anti-virus software. But over the last decade, the target of attacks shifted. People turned out to be more vulnerable than hardware or software. Every employee, from the CEO to a new hire, is [...]
A joint survey from BCG and MIT’s Sloan Management Review found that leaders in most industries believe AI technology will have a significant impact during the next five years but is AI right for your organization? Amara’s law states that “we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in [...]
The cost of a data breach can be difficult to estimate, but it is far from impossible. If you take into consideration the corporate context, both internal and external factors, the nature and number of records involved in the leak, the ability to promptly detect incidents and leave room for [...]
Do your employees have breach fatigue? Big breaches make the headlines, so when the average employee comes across regular news of large organizations suffering a data breach, they often struggle to believe that they themselves can help defend against such an attack. Placing this alongside NIST's findings that employees often [...]
Cyber resilience strongly depends on access to real-time threat identification and analysis. Understanding the specific nature of a threat allows organizations to identify and address vulnerabilities in business operations. To ensure your systems and staff are up to date on the tactics and methods cyber criminals use, you need access [...]
Nearly 75% of Organizations in 5 Countries Fail in Cyber Security Readiness, this according to a study commissioned by specialist insurer Hiscox. Depending on your roles and responsibilities, this may bring up a few good questions. Would my organization fall into that 75%? What would the cost of a data [...]