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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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SEC Chair: Sweeping New Cybersecurity Rules Are Coming Soon

Data Matters

On Monday, January 24, 2022, in a speech at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law annual Securities Regulation Institute conference, Gary Gensler, Chair of the U.S. 11 But the SEC declined to go that far when it adopted Reg SCI.

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SHARED INTEL: Akamai reports web attack traffic spiked 62 percent in 2020 — all sectors hit hard

The Last Watchdog

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. As a leading global content delivery network (CDN), Akamai has a birdseye view of what is coursing through cyber space moment-by-moment. Q: Can you give me a feel for the major categories of attacks?

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An Approach to Cybersecurity Risk Oversight for Corporate Directors

Data Matters

The growing volume and severity of cyber-attacks directed against public companies has caught the attention of federal regulators and investors. More and more, directors are viewing cyber-risk under the broader umbrella of corporate strategy and searching for ways to help mitigate that risk.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Tales From A Ransomware Negotiator

ForAllSecure

I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m going to talk with a ransomware negotiator I ran into in the hallways at this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco.You hear a lot of talk about ransomware as a technical attack, but what’s it like to be on the inside dealing with that situation. By no means. Is that enough?

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Part 3: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about effecting risk management and change management?

ARMA International

Thus, common tools and techniques are risk matrices, risk registers, risk logs, risk breakdown structures, risk categories, Monte Carlo simulations, and sensitivity analyses. Cyber criminals have even outsourced their development to ransomware developers, who in turn have refined their processes. In this case, U.S. 2020, p 6).