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MY TAKE: Coping with security risks, compliance issues spun up by ‘digital transformation’

The Last Watchdog

A core security challenge confronts just about every company today. While the benefits of DX are highly-touted , this shift has also spawned a whole new tier of unprecedented privacy and security challenges. The cloud is kind of dragging this movement along and DevOps and security are center stage, at the moment.”

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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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Q&A: Why SOAR startup Syncurity is bringing a ‘case-management’ approach to threat detection

The Last Watchdog

There’s a frantic scramble going on among those responsible for network security at organizations across all sectors. Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy.

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New York Announces Proposed Cybersecurity Regulation to Protect Consumers and Financial Institutions

Hunton Privacy

The proposed regulation requires regulated financial institutions to take various actions, including: adopting a written cybersecurity policy; establishing a cybersecurity program; designating a Chief Information Security Officer to oversee and enforce its new program and policy; and.

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Cachet Financial Reeling from MyPayrollHR Fraud

Krebs on Security

It’s worth noting that the MyPayrollHR fraud wasn’t the first time Cachet has been tripped up by the demise of a payroll company: In 2016, the collapse of Monterey, Calif. But on Oct. 23 — less than 24 hours before another weekly payroll rush — Pasadena, Calif. But, on Sept. 1, 2019 to Aug.

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FTC Seeks Comment on Proposed Changes to its GLBA Safeguards and Privacy Rules

Data Matters

Over the last few years, States have enacted increasingly aggressive legislation concerning data privacy and security, raising concerns that companies will be subject to a patchwork of different standards.

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State Attackers Moving from Stealing Data to Social Meddling

Ascent Innovations

Few unexpected nation states are rising in the ranks of sponsored attackers, including spying on thousands of people across 20 countries via an Android malware campaign, and another one infiltrated Russia’s Cozy Bear liar and uncovered the hack of DNC during the 2016 elections. Cyber-social.