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How should you investigate a data breach?

IT Governance

Digital Guardian recently asked a group of cyber security experts what the most important step is following a data breach. Several answered with some variation of ‘find out how it happened’. So how should you approach a data breach investigation? The crime scene.

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What is data loss and how does it work?

IT Governance

Data loss refers to the destruction of sensitive information. It’s a specific type of data breach, falling into the ‘availability’ category of data security (the other two categories being ‘confidentiality’ and ‘integrity’). Data loss can also occur when devices suffer water (or other liquid) damage.

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Strategies to Protect your Records from Ransomware

The Texas Record

As information technology continues to advance, it is vital that all local government offices and state agencies understand how to mitigate the risks of an attack on your records management system. Create a plan to manage a data security breach: Designate an incident response team and outline a plan.

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Cybersecurity Risks of 5G – And How to Control Them

eSecurity Planet

Consumer electronics, business, network appliances, and industrial IoT (IIoT) devices are all driving the exponential growth of IoT systems. Insecure implementations may result in unauthorized access to threat actors and potential data breaches.” Also Read: How to Implement Microsegmentation.

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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

Additionally, I am a Fellow and Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government --where I teach Internet security policy -- and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. The security breach was a result of a vulnerability in the software for their websites: a program called Apache Struts.

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Doing Digital Right (A Book Review)

Information is Currency

The challenge isn’t just managing electronic records, but non-records, content and other data as all information needs to be governed because all information provides risk because of many factors such as e-discovery, data breaches and so much more.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. Part 3 will discuss how to manage the various DT risks. This includes defining the product scope of the DT journey and the digital products and services that will deliver transformative change for a new future.