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Automated Security and Compliance Attracts Venture Investors

eSecurity Planet

In 2013, Adam Markowitz founded Portfolium, an edtech startup that matched college students and graduates with employers. “I I remember the first time we were asked for a SOC 2 report, which quickly became the minimum bar requirement in our industry for proof of an effective security program,” he said.

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Millions of Expedia and Booking.com customers at risk after data breach

IT Governance

A database belonging to Prestige Software – containing over 10 million files – has been found publicly accessible online. Security experts working for Website Planet discovered that the Spanish software firm failed to password-protect an AWS S3 bucket that held the personal details of hotel guests dating back to 2013.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2018 – 17,273,571 records leaked

IT Governance

Remember when I said last month that “with the GDPR less than a month away I imagine future lists will be even longer thanks to the introduction of mandatory data breach notifications”? Well, May’s list of incidents is very long, and the GDPR only came into effect at the end of the month. Data breach. I’m not, though.

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2020 in review: July to December

IT Governance

Welcome to the second part of our cyber security review of 2020, in which we look back at the biggest stories from July to December. That meant that anywhere that planned to reopen was required to collect customers’ names and contact details upon entry and store the data for 21 days. You can read the first part here >>. October.

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ISO 27001 training in Birmingham

IT Governance

Achieving certification to ISO 27001 demonstrates to existing and potential customers that your organisation has defined and put in place best-practice information security processes. ISO 27001 is the only auditable international standard that defines the requirements of an information security management system (ISMS).

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The Cost of Doing Nothing

ForAllSecure

In security, some may refute that there is “no savings to worry about" if no investment has been made to begin with, arguing that they’ve been “just fine so far” In this blog, we will argue there is a cost in doing nothing. A 2019 Ponemon study revealed that the cost of a data breach is $4.88 million dollars.

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The Cost of Doing Nothing

ForAllSecure

In security, some may refute that there is “no savings to worry about" if no investment has been made to begin with, arguing that they’ve been “just fine so far” In this blog, we will argue there is a cost in doing nothing. A 2019 Ponemon study revealed that the cost of a data breach is $4.88 million dollars.

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