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Identifying, Assessing and Evaluating Risk Is the Easy Part
Identifying and reacting to the initial risk is relatively easy. Taking into account all of the resulting risks this action creates is the hard part.
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Don't Be the Next Equifax: Tips to Avoid a Security Breach
The Equifax breach illustrates why building a layered approach to cybersecurity is critical when dealing with sensitive data
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8 Biggest Risks for Internal Auditors in 2018
Internal auditors put their own roles at risk if they fail to focus on the broader business's success
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Gimmal Workplace Compliance Prepares for GDPR
With the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) scheduled to come into force next May, information management vendor Gimmal is upgrading its flagship solution, Workplace Compliance, to help businesses stay on the right side of the new regulations. As part of the upgrade, Houston-based Gimmal’s Workplace Compliance app now includes
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Equifax Breach Drags Open Source Security Into Spotlight Once More
Consumer credit reporting agency Equifax recently announced a massive security breach which exposed the data of 143 million US customers. The stolen data included names, social security numbers, birthdates and home addresses.
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How to Collaborate With External Stakeholders While Remaining Compliant
Whenever organizations bring external partners into their business processes, it raises security questions. How will those partners impact your company’s governance, risk and compliance policies? It’s one thing to enable a business partner or consultant to deliver a core piece of your workflow, since your customers will hold you
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Your Riskiest Data Is Often Hiding in Plain Sight
Allow me to state the obvious: Data is everywhere. While it may sound basic to the point of insulting, it’s something even the best Compliance Officers can overlook.
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How Will You Respond to the Cyber Crisis?
It feels like almost every week yet another ransomware attack strikes. The recent Petya attack spanned the globe and eluded detection and prevention by corporate defenses. All indications show our ability to address the mounting threats is insufficient. The recent survey, "Majority of organizations are in the dark regarding daily network attacks " illustrates the point.
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Do You Know What's in Your File Shares?
It feels like every day we hear news of yet another major data privacy and security breach. Just this week, the Petya ransomware made headlines worldwide, following in the footsteps of the WannaCry attack in May, which infiltrated US federal agencies.
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'Unprecedented' Petya Cyber Attack Follows in WannaCry's Footsteps
A cyber attack dubbed “Petya” took root in Ukraine on Tuesday and is spreading across the world in what appears to be a repeat of the recent WannaCry malware attack — but “without the kill switch that saved us last time,” New York City-based cyber security firm Carbon Dynamics told
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How to Protect Workflows When They Cross Enterprise Boundaries
Back in the day, content-driven workflows were easy. Your collaborators were all part of your organization and editing rights were determined by a user’s application credentials or LDAP profile.
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The Chief Privacy Officer Balancing Act
Security and privacy professionals have been taught to respect the confidentiality, availability and accuracy of data that we collect and create — particularly when it includes sensitive information. Most security models are built on this framework.
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Report: DDoS Attacks Have Slowed, But Increased in Size
DDoS Attacks are nothing new. In fact, hackers have been maliciously flooding servers since 1999. But in October 2016, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks suddenly became far more relevant to the everyday web surfer, after Dyn — one of the world’s leading DNS providers — suffered the largest DDoS attack in history. The
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6 Warning Signs Your Business Might Not Survive a Disaster
A New York bank had what it thought was a rock-solid plan to recover its non-critical “customer convenience” systems from its backup tapes if a disaster ever struck.
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