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UK Suffers Third Highest Rate of Ransomware Attacks in the World

IT Governance

UK organisations suffer the third highest rate of ransomware attacks globally, with small businesses most at risk, a report by NordLocker has found. The other most vulnerable sectors were business services (23), construction (22), manufacturing (19) and transport (18). What else should organisations do?

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10 things you must do to become cyber secure

IT Governance

Conduct staff awareness training. Your employees are the ones following your policies and procedures, so they are directly responsible for keeping threats such as ransomware and phishing at bay. System monitoring enables organisations to detect criminals’ attempts to attack systems and business services.

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Proposed Amendments to NY Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulations Impose New Obligations on Large Entities, Boards of Directors and CISOs

Hunton Privacy

As part of the “training and monitoring” requirements under Section 500.14 The CISO’s obligation to report to the senior governing body ( e.g. , board of directors) has been expanded to include plans for remediating inadequacies and timely reporting on material cybersecurity issues or major cybersecurity events.

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NYDFS proposes significant cybersecurity regulation amendments

Data Protection Report

The proposed changes mark a turn by NYDFS toward more specific, granular and prescriptive requirements notably with respect to governance, risk assessments and asset inventories (detailed below). Governance. The draft amendments would also require that relevant employees be trained for their implementation. Extortion Payments.