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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

This guide will provide a high level overview of encryption and how it fits into IT through the following topics: How Encryption Works To understand how encryption works, we need to understand how it fits into the broader realm of cryptology, how it processes data, common categories, top algorithms, and how encryption fits into IT security.

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New SEC Cybersecurity Rules Could Affect Private Companies Too

eSecurity Planet

This requirement copies the strategies of previous legislation that dramatically improved financial reporting for both public and private companies. Also read: Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations. For the board, they must publicly disclose their financial auditing expertise and experience.

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Top 8 Cyber Insurance Companies for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Cyberattacks are not only a technological problem for companies, but they also represent a very real financial threat. He added that while ransomware may have gotten the most attention and headlines, claims for standard privacy-related incidents, breaches, and more continue. That’s where cyber insurance may be able to help.

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

eSecurity Planet

Specialists have even evolved within the MSSP category to provide specific services. Risk assessments and gap analysis of existing security controls provide strategic and technical evaluations of an organization’s cybersecurity strategy to determine if critical assets are sufficiently protected.

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

ARMA International

This part also discusses managing CS risks such as ransomware, privacy, change management, and user adoption. Many narratives that deal with change, strategy, transformation, and implementation involve discussing risk. “In Take the example of the pandemic: only some governments engaged pandemic experts to develop actions plans.

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An Approach to Cybersecurity Risk Oversight for Corporate Directors

Data Matters

A high-profile cyber incident may cause substantial financial and reputational losses to an organization, including the disruption of corporate business processes, destruction or theft of critical data assets, loss of goodwill, and shareholder and consumer litigation. Aligning cyber risk with corporate strategy.

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East Coast Meets West Coast: Enter the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act

Data Matters

For over two and a half years, California has enjoyed the spotlight of having the most comprehensive data privacy law in the United States. The VCDPA, which will not enter into effect until January 1, 2023, borrows heavily from the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).