Data Breach Today
APRIL 9, 2018
What Remediation Steps Should Be Taken? Over 200,000 Cisco networks switches worldwide reportedly were hacked Friday, apparently affecting critical infrastructure of large internet service providers and data centers across the world, especially in Iran, Russia, the United States, China, Europe and India. What remediation steps should be taken?
AIIM
APRIL 9, 2018
When you’re working to document your processes, an initial goal is to map the workflow of the typical, standard task, getting the most common branches outlined. This will comprise of the steps you know well, the steps that already run fairly smoothly. Yes, this will not cover every scenario, but that’s ok at this stage. An interpretation of Pareto’s Principle , otherwise known as The 80/20 Rule is that 80% of the completed work will come from 20% of the scenarios.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 9, 2018
Time Inc.'s Deputy CISO on the Challenge of Ensuring Content Security In this era of "fake news," Time Inc. Deputy CISO Preeti Palanisamy takes seriously the challenge of maintaining the integrity of journalism from content creation through production and eventual publication.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 9, 2018
Facebook has released a tool that lets you see if you were caught up in the Cambridge Analytica fiasco—and what other apps know about you know.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 9, 2018
With Alabama and South Dakota recently becoming the last two states to adopt breach notification laws, notification processes become more complicated, says privacy attorney Adam Greene, who offers an in-depth analysis.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 9, 2018
CTO Troy Leach Describes Three Key Initiatives As payment card fraud schemes continue to evolve, the PCI Security Standards Council has to recalibrate its standards and programs, says Troy Leach, the council's CTO, who describes three key updates.
IBM Big Data Hub
APRIL 9, 2018
There’s a general need for next-gen executives to not only understand corporate regulations, but be able to adhere to and follow them using metadata solutions like data governance. As the business world’s top asset becomes data, data governance will ensure that data and information being handled is consistent, reliable and trustworthy. Establishing and deploying an analytics platform that embeds data governance and data integration, amongst other solutions, has never been more critical.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 9, 2018
NTT Security's John Petrie on Interacting With Board of Directors One of the most important priorities for a CISO is having a place at the table with the board of executives, says John Petrie of NTT Security. "It's very helpful to have interaction with the board so when things like budgeting or things like how you're going to change your programming come up, they are attuned to what you're talking about.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 9, 2018
This vulnerability is a result of an interaction between two different ways of handling e-mail addresses. Gmail ignores dots in addresses, so bruce.schneier@gmail.com is the same as bruceschneier@gmail.com is the same as b.r.u.c.e.schneier@gmail.com. (Note: I do not own any of those email addresses -- if they're even valid.) Netflix doesn't ignore dots, so those are all unique e-mail addresses and can each be used to register an account.
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Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 9, 2018
The recent data breach impacting 150 million user accounts of Under Armour's MyFitnessPal application and website offers important lessons for mobile app developers, security expert Joan Pepin explains in this interview.
Threatpost
APRIL 9, 2018
A new wave of document attacks targeting inboxes do not require enabling macros in order for adversaries to trigger an infection chain that ultimately delivers FormBook malware.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 9, 2018
A new study from Pew Research shows that the bulk of links on Twitter don't come from actual humans.
IT Governance
APRIL 9, 2018
Phishing scams are relatively mundane compared to the sophisticated attacks that you read about in the news, but it’s important to remember that sometimes the biggest threats are right at your doorstep. Or, rather, your inbox. Fortunately, two recent reports have indicated that most organisations are well aware of the threat of phishing. They are certainly helped by the frequency with which their employees are targeted, with Proofpoint’s Understanding Email Fraud Survey finding that 75% of organ
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
Dark Reading
APRIL 9, 2018
Retailer says customer payment and other information may have been exposed via the breach of [24]7.ai online chat provider.
TAB OnRecord
APRIL 9, 2018
Are you attending the AIIM conference this week? If, so please come say hello! Our booth this year is in the Solutions Lounge. More ways to connect with TAB at AIIM: visit our booth to learn how TAB’s solutions are helping organizations automate their business processes and go digital. get our latest white paper, “Lessons from [.] Read More.
IT Governance
APRIL 9, 2018
This week’s extract is taken from Graham Day’s book Security in the Digital World. This must-have guide features simple explanations, examples and advice to help you become security-aware in a developing digital world. Discussion Podcast Episode 10 – Security in the Digital World, THE HOW: “There is no rule as to how attacks might appear, but the people who put them together are extremely imaginative and will go to great lengths if they think they can profit.” Learn how to: Keep your infor
The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 9, 2018
Lauren Sager Weinstein, Transport for London’s chief data officer, explains what happens to its customers’ information. Plus Jon Baines on the General Data Protection Regulation We take protecting the privacy of our customers extremely seriously ( How to keep data truly safe? Don’t collect it in the first place , 4 April). Aside from cases where it is essential that we know the identity of a holder of an Oyster card – such as when checking customers are entitled for free or discounted travel – t
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IT Governance
APRIL 9, 2018
As the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance deadline nears, it is increasingly apparent that a significant number of organisations won’t be ready in time. Although everyone should be aiming to meet the 25 May 2018 deadline, it’s not the end of the world if you don’t. After all, you can continue to put measures in place after this date.
OpenText Information Management
APRIL 9, 2018
Last week OpenText™ once again welcomed its Partners to our annual deep dive workshop for OpenText Vendor Invoice Management® for SAP® Solutions (VIM) and OpenText Business Center for SAP Solutions (DCP), which traditionally takes place in the European HQ of OpenText in Munich, Germany. The workshop is a busy event with a fully packed agenda, over … The post Partner deep dive: The future of OCR and machine learning appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
APRIL 9, 2018
“Trust but verify” is a Russian proverb President Reagan used as doctrine for nuclear disarmament between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in the mid-1980s. Its application was instrumental in ending the nuclear arms race and the threat of war. Today, the same doctrine can be applied to enterprise applications and data that is being threatened by a complex dynamic of attack vectors.
Dark Reading
APRIL 9, 2018
Ransomware, spyware, and cryptomining were the biggest enterprise threats during an otherwise quiet quarter for malware, researchers report.
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Threatpost
APRIL 9, 2018
A breach that exposed the credit card information of Delta Air Lines and Sears Holdings now expands its impact to include Best Buy and Kmart.
Dark Reading
APRIL 9, 2018
"Serverless" forces software architects and developers to approach security by building it in rather than bolting it on. But there is a downside.
Preservica
APRIL 9, 2018
The Art Institute of Chicago takes steps to preserve its history and records. To preserve its corporate records and institutional knowledge, The Art Institute of Chicago has implemented a cloud-hosted active digital preservation platform. The museum chose a solution from Preservica , which helps organizations protect critical, long-term digital information.
Dark Reading
APRIL 9, 2018
Cisco says companies fixing previously known protocol issue should also patch against critical remote-code execution issue.
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DLA Piper Privacy Matters
APRIL 9, 2018
Italian companies can now rely on guidelines on how to comply with the European privacy regulation (GDPR) which unvail some interesting positions. . After the French and the Dutch data protection authorities, the Italian privacy regulator, Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, (the “ Italian DPA “) issued its 6 step methodology on the GDPR which aims at also increasing awareness on the most relevant changes introduced: 1.
Dark Reading
APRIL 9, 2018
Here are common misconceptions about these securing these devices - and tips for locking them down.
Information Management Resources
APRIL 9, 2018
These professionals are core to the success of software companies, and this role can quickly lead to leadership opportunities and top salary potential.
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