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GUEST ESSAY: The story behind how DataTribe is helping to seed ‘Cybersecurity Valley’ in Maryland

The Last Watchdog

With the largest concentration of cybersecurity expertise –– the “oil” — in the world, Maryland is fast changing from the Old Line State into “Cybersecurity Valley.” and Tenable, which went public in 2018 with a market capitalization of approximately $4 billion. There’s oil in the state of Maryland – “cyber oil.”

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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

This guide will provide a high level overview of encryption and how it fits into IT through the following topics: How Encryption Works To understand how encryption works, we need to understand how it fits into the broader realm of cryptology, how it processes data, common categories, top algorithms, and how encryption fits into IT security.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. Relatedly, PIPL outlines some categories of sensitive information that do not receive additional protection under GDPR. See the Top Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Tools.

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How Hackers Access Direct Deposit Paycheck — And What to Do About It

Security Affairs

When PhishLabs published findings from its most recent report , it revealed that phishing attacks in 2018 went up by 40.9%. Those efforts fall into the business email compromise (BEC) category. It works well in many cases but is not immune to hackers. Hackers Do a Payroll Diversion Through Phishing. Plus, in 83.9% jurisdiction offers.

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An Approach to Cybersecurity Risk Oversight for Corporate Directors

Data Matters

* This article first appeared in In-House Defense Quarterly on April 3, 2018. The most prepared cybersecurity programs of today will not attempt to implement a static, “out-of-the-box” solution to cyber risk. Adopting the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Creating an enterprise-wide governance structure. Managing digital identities.

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Previously undocumented Aoqin Dragon APT targets entities in Southeast Asia and Australia

Security Affairs

SentinelOne documented a series of attacks aimed at government, education, and telecom entities in Southeast Asia and Australia carried out by a previously undocumented Chinese-speaking APT tracked as Aoqin Dragon. From 2018 to present, Aoqin Dragon has also been observed using a fake removable device as an initial infection vector.

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and in the footsteps of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), California privacy advocates introduced a ballot initiative on October 12, 2017 called “The Consumer Right to Privacy Act of 2018” (No. The CCPA goes into effect January 1, 2020.

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