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How to Prevent Data Breaches: Data Breach Prevention Tips

eSecurity Planet

With the ever-present threat of data breaches, organizations need to adopt best practices to help prevent breaches and to respond to them when they occur to limit any damage. And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices.

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News alert: Harter Secrest & Emery announces designation as NetDiligence-authorized Breach Coac

The Last Watchdog

15, 2024 – Harter Secrest & Emery LLP , a full-service business law firm with offices throughout New York, is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a NetDiligence-authorized Breach Coach ® , a designation only extended to law firms that demonstrate competency and sophistication in data breach response.

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Top 7 Data Governance Blog Posts of 2018

erwin

From rules regarding active consent, data processing and the tricky “right to be forgotten” to required procedures for notifying afflicted parties of a data breach and documenting compliance, GDPR introduces a lot of complexity. The Top Five Data Governance Use Cases and Drivers. Data Governance 2.0

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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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OCR Labs exposes its systems, jeopardizing major banking clients

Security Affairs

Data leak affected QBANK, Defence Bank, Bloom Money, Admiral Money, MA Money, and Reed. Using leaked data, threat actors could potentially breach banks’ backend infrastructure and consequently the infrastructure of their clients. Experian collects financial data on individuals to help rate their creditworthiness.

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It’s time to think twice about retail loyalty programs

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. To make a long story short – the top reason that they didn’t invest in data security was “lack of perceived need” at 52%. This had me asking a simple question – Why? Doing the math perhaps?

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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Even when banking organizations are upgrading security posture to safeguard sensitive financial information, hackers can steal the data intelligently by tying known vulnerabilities together, and making it turn out to be a potential attack. The stolen data is used both to commit fraud directly and indirectly. Data security.

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