IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The framework consists of five interrelated stages (or ‘layers’) to mitigate the risk of data breaches: detection, protection, management, response and recovery. Even if one of these defensive layers is breached, the next works to further contain the damage. Why Cyber Insurance is Essential in 2022.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Unfortunately for those of us indulging in wishful thinking, the likelihood and costs of data breaches continue to increase. The Ponemon Institute estimates that data breach costs rose to an average cost of $4.24 Be in-line with insurance policies. Be in-line with insurance policies. Document contingencies.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The healthcare industry has poured vast resources into cybersecurity since 2015, when a surge of major breaches began. While the nature of these breaches has evolved over the last four years, the growth in total healthcare incidents has unfortunately continued unabated. Related: How to get of HIPAA hit list. Sticky problem.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 12, 2018

Good article about how difficult it is to insure an organization against Internet attacks, and how expensive the insurance is. Companies like retailers, banks, and healthcare providers began seeking out cyberinsurance in the early 2000s, when states first passed data breach notification laws.

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IT Governance

MARCH 20, 2024

. % UK businesses that experienced an attack or a breach in the prior 12 months, according to the UK government’s Cyber Security Breaches Surveys 2016–2023 A hard look at the statistics The downtrend since 2020, especially for small and micro businesses, may make organisations feel able to cut cyber security spending.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Disaster recovery is effectively a form of insurance; you are spending money preparing for a scenario that you hope never occurs. You’ll need contact details of regulators, power providers and key members of staff; data breach notification checklists; inventories; insurance policies; and data flow maps, to name a few things.

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Lenny Zeltser

JULY 1, 2020

the scammers get these details from massive data breaches, such as the Equifax breach. The most likely way in which you’ll learn that you’ve fallen victim to the identity theft-based unemployment insurance scam is by receiving an unsolicited debit card in the mail. I believe in this scheme.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In this blog, we look at three other ways that cyber security as a service can benefit your organisation, and help you understand how the process works. According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020 , organisations spend £2.9 But without the right guidance in place, it is difficult to know how to protect yourself.

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IT Governance

JULY 11, 2019

This might seem futile – the police will almost certainly be unable to recover your data, let alone catch the crooks – but evidence of the attack is necessary for filing a cyber insurance claim. If you don’t already have cyber insurance, it’s worth considering. Find out what kind of ransomware it is.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2019

If your organisation didn’t suffer a data breach last year, consider yourself one of the lucky few. The insurance firm Hiscox found that 61% of organisations were compromised in the past 12 months. The post 61% of organisations reported a data breach in 2019 appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

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OneHub

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Whether you work with enterprise businesses exclusively, or are trying to make the switch, knowing how to share documents securely and safely is important. Leaking enterprise data can have serious consequences. Find out how to share files securely with enterprise businesses in this short guide. Insurance documents.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 26, 2016

On October 25, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission released a guide for businesses on how to handle and respond to data breaches (the “Guide”). The 16-page Guide details steps businesses should take once they become aware of a potential breach.

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IT Governance

JULY 17, 2019

Norsk wiped its systems and restored clean versions from backups, knowing that its cyber insurance policy would help cover the costs. See also: How to handle a ransomware attack. How should you investigate a data breach? 7 of the most common cyber attacks you need to prepare for.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 9, 2018

Most people generally understand what happens after a data breach: the crooks use or sell the information to make a quick profit, and organisations must spend money recovering from the incident and paying legal fees and penalties. Things change slightly when the stolen data contains rarer information.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Most companies are no strangers to the consequences of a data breach. Incident readiness includes having a state-of-the-art incident response plan, conducting tabletop exercises, implementing a vendor management program and having adequate cybersecurity insurance. It’s now rare to be unaffected by such incidents.

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Data Protection Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

Earlier this month, Delaware revamped its data breach notification law, with changes to go into effect April 14, 2018. Most notably, the new law requires any entity that has suffered a data breach that includes social security numbers to provide free credit monitoring services to affected residents for one year.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 27, 2015

After a number of high-profile data breaches, corporate cybersecurity is facing increased scrutiny and attention from consumers, the government and the public. In a webinar, entitled Cyber Insurance: Addressing Your Risks and Liabilities , hosted by Hunton & Williams LLP and CT , Hunton & Williams partners Lon A.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) disclose a data breach after MOVEit attack on IBM. The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) disclosed a data breach that impacted more than four million individuals. ” reads the reads the notice. by the company.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 30, 2019

It’s summer, and life’s a breach. A data breach, that is. It’s your service provider’s breach, but it involves your (more likely, your customer’s) data. So put down the beach reading, for some breach reading. Who “owns” a data breach?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

Welcome to our new-look list of data breaches and cyber attacks. So, each month, we’ll update this page with the latest figures and links, so be sure to bookmark it to keep an eye out for the latest data breach news. His research also revealed that the stolen data contains 305 lines of data, including 74.4

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The framework consists of five interrelated stages (or ‘layers’) to mitigate the risk of data breaches: detection, protection, management, response and recovery. Even if one of these defensive layers is breached, the next works to further contain the damage. Why Cyber Insurance is Essential in 2022. How we can help.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

“Depending on location, 16Shop will also collect ID numbers (including Civil ID, National ID, and Citizen ID), passport numbers, social insurance numbers, sort codes, and credit limits,” McAfee wrote. 16Shop documentation instructing operators on how to deploy the kit. Image: ZeroFox.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Organisations are reporting record numbers of data breaches, while the costs associated with those incidents continue to spiral. The framework consists of five interrelated stages (or ‘layers’) to mitigate the risk of data breaches: detection, protection, management, response and recovery. . trillion (about £8.9

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Norton Rose Fulbright Canada’s cyber litigation team recently obtained an order in favour of an insurer, granting it relief from forfeiture in respect of more than 11 bitcoins from the assets seized from a prolific ransomware gang. [1] Insurers excluded from restitution order.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2023

health administrators are still smarting from a data breach earlier this year at the health insurance exchange DC Health Link , which exposed personal information for more than 56,000 users, including many members of Congress. That data later wound up for sale on a top cybercrime forum. Washington, D.C.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

The 911 call center needs a robust phone system, trained staff, and a decision-tree process to understand how to route issues to the appropriate emergency or non-emergency agencies to address a caller’s needs. Both internal and external risks should be considered since both data breaches and hurricanes can significantly impact the business.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. Healthcare Data Privacy Laws. Health data and patient data in the U.S. The post Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

Rules for handling children’s data might become even stricter if the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), currently under consideration in the US Senate, becomes law. Privacy impact assessments Privacy impact assessments (PIAs) determine how much risk a particular activity poses to user privacy.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Company officials at Capital One Financial Corp ought to have a crystal clear idea of what to expect next — after admitting to have allowed a gargantuan data breach. Related: Hackers direct botnets to manipulate business logic Thompson is accused of pilfering sensitive data for 100 million US and 6 million Canadian bank patrons.

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Getting Information Done

APRIL 18, 2017

With recent high-profile breach incidents, including Home Depot, Target, and Sony, many companies are asking themselves, “Will I be next?” Some of these data breaches are not only a result of internal malicious acts but also unintentional mistakes by employees. As a result, companies are turning to cyber insurance.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Data protection and data privacy Data protection , defined as protecting important information from corruption, damage or loss, is critical because data breaches resulting from cyberattacks can include personally identifiable information (PII), health information, financial information, intellectual property and other personal data.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2023

Worryingly, it also allowed threat actors to modify the data, changing salary amounts and details of bank accounts used for salary payments. Researchers found about 435,000 payslips, 300 tax filings, 3,800 insurance payment documents, and 21,000 salary sheets belonging to various companies using the HR platform’s services.

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Armstrong Archives

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Secure document disposal , as part of this comprehensive policy, protects against data breaches and maintains confidentiality, which is vital in today’s digital landscape. Training should cover how to classify, store, and eventually dispose of records according to the policy.

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Information Governance Perspectives

MARCH 20, 2020

I was recently interviewed for an article on Data Governance & Privacy for a number of periodicals including Info Risk Today on “Data Governance: How to Tackle 3 Key Issues: The Importance of Accountability, Data Inventory, and Automation. Below is the full text of my interview for additional context.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Late last year, Atrium Health disclosed it lost sensitive data for some 2.65 According to a recent Ponemon Institute study , some 59% of companies experienced a third-party data breach in 2018, yet only 16% believe they are effectively mitigating third-party risk.

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