Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This is happening despite an exponential increase in organizational cyber training over the past decade. Why should employers educate employees about cyber security? or.con rather than.com, for example. Ensure that your systems are up to date with the latest security patches and software updates.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 7, 2017

There has never been a better time to get into cyber security. If you’re thinking about starting a career in cyber security, here are five things you should do. As with most industries, you’re much more likely to get ahead in cyber security if you have experience. Cyber security isn’t something you can pick up quickly.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

There has never been a better time to get into cyber security, with growing demand for experts promising increased salaries and job opportunities. In this blog, we provide tips for getting your cyber security career started no matter your background. Where can you learn about the cyber security industry?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2022

At the end of April, ForAllSecure hosted a day-long hackathon at Arizona State University where 181 students participated in the day-long in person training program. Demand for this in-person training was so high that a second, online training was scheduled soon after. Next, students were introduced to Docker and GitHub Actions.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). “Another example of illegitimate activity is when someone deploys the RMM agent on, say, 100 endpoints in 100 different AD domains.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

These projects include tools, training programs, and a red team platform for exercising various types of offensive cyber operations, including cyber espionage, IO, and operational technology (OT) attacks.” The company was commissioned for the development of tools, training programs, and a hacking platform.

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IT Governance

APRIL 15, 2020

The video conferencing platform Zoom has been heavily criticised in recent weeks , amid a series of allegations related to its inadequate cyber security and privacy measures. It’s worth emphasising, then, that for all of Zoom’s security faults, the blame for this incident lies with users rather than the platform. Cyber attacks.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Microsoft’s exam description notes that the qualification demonstrates candidates’ “fundamental knowledge of cloud concepts, as well as Azure services, workloads, security, privacy, pricing, and support”. The Azure Administrator certification, for example, must be renewed each year. So what do you need to pass the Azure AZ-900 exam?

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

APRIL 21, 2020

For example, for recruitment purposes, pre-contractual measures or legitimate interests are acceptable legal bases for the CNIL. The new guidelines provide a list of personal data that can be collected for standard HR processing (identification data, data about professional career, training, work-related injury, etc.).

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Armstrong Archives

AUGUST 25, 2023

Patients expect their health information to be kept safe and secure, and a breach of that trust can instantly cause a patient to look down upon the agency that violates it. For example, imagine a hospital employee accidentally shares a patient’s medical records with someone who shouldn’t have seen them.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Although there have still been a few surprises, with the death of Queen Elizabeth II and blazing heatwaves across the UK to name but two, it was a familiar year in the cyber security landscape. Google , Clearview AI , and Meta all receives hefty penalties in 2022, demonstrating the continued important of effective information security.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Regulated firms remain responsible for any data that they outsource and, in line with this, they must exercise appropriate oversight of any outsourcing – firms may want to consider, for example, what would happen if there was an issue, including whether back-up is adequate and if they would receive appropriate information if something did go wrong.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Some guidance is provided on how to ensure that the DPO can perform his or her duties independently without receiving any instruction to exercise his/her mission, without conflict of interests and with real effectiveness for the organization. The DPO should report at the highest level of the organization’s management.

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AIIM

MARCH 16, 2021

Here is an outline of the steps included in this exercise to build your Metadata plan. Determine if rules need to be established; for example, a title field may be limited to 100 characters, or date/time fields set to use international display standards. Let's get started! Five Essential Steps: Build and Execute a Metadata Plan.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 16, 2023

A red team engagement gives your blue team a chance to more accurately assess your security program’s effectiveness and make improvements. Instead, their goal is to expose gaps in cybersecurity defenses, helping security teams learn and adjust their program before an actual attack happens. In practice, they are not.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2019

But as I’ve observed in previous stories about swatting attacks, it would also be nice if more police forces around the country received additional training on exercising restraint in the use of deadly force, particularly in responding to hostage or bomb threat scenarios that have hallmarks of a swatting hoax.

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ARMA International

MAY 16, 2022

For example, a previous box management system utilized by our office did not support a consistent format for data entry and did not require key information. Examples include: Setting your budget. Is customer support and training available post-conversion, and for how long? Your current system may be outdated. Things to Consider.

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Reltio

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Reltio Master Data Management(MDM) Training Refreshed and Ready for You. We’re keeping the best of our existing MDM training library, revising and reformatting content, and introducing brand new courses at a rapid pace.”. Our MDM Training is designed to move in sync with the technology it’s designed to support. It should be.

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AIIM

MAY 12, 2022

Late last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that J.P. Morgan Securities LLC had agreed to pay $125 million to help settle charges of “widespread and longstanding failures by the firm and its employees to maintain and preserve written communications” over the course of several years.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

Individuals and organizations should prioritize security awareness training, implement email security measures, and encourage vigilance when dealing with unusual or urgent requests. In order to send a message, they could be using spoof email addresses, making use of compromised accounts, or exploiting weak security measures.

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IT Governance

MARCH 17, 2020

Cyber security experts have found that the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has led to a surge in phishing scams , with both individuals and organisations at risk. For example, millions of employees will likely to be forced to work remotely, as the UK government prepares for a lockdown scenario.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

But it would also be nice if more police forces around the country received additional training on exercising restraint in the use of deadly force, particularly in responding to hostage or bomb threat scenarios that have hallmarks of a swatting hoax.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

They might, for example, need to approve additional actions or adjust the plan depending on the organisation’s ability to complete certain actions. As such, “conducting tabletop and disaster recovery exercises with everyone remote may be an adaptation, but it isn’t an insurmountable one”. Beware of elevated privileges.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Part four covers how an organization can facilitate the exercise of individual rights in its AI systems, including rights related to solely automated decision-making. The Guidance outlines how these trade-offs can be managed, and provides worked examples to assist organizations in assessing trade-offs.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 11, 2019

On the same date, some participating DPAs released the results of the Sweep exercise carried out in their respective jurisdiction. Training & Awareness: Organizations were generally found to be quite good at delivering some form of data protection training to their employees.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) strongly advised public companies to improve their cybersecurity. While the new security proposals have not yet become law, cybersecurity managers can begin to prepare metrics and audits that will not only help comply with those laws, but can also help create positive change now.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The only processing operations exempt from the GDPR are national security and law enforcement activities and purely personal uses of data. For example, a business that collects user health data needs stronger protections than one that collects only email addresses. However, all organizations may want to keep such records.

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Data Protection Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The ICO’s latest guidance confirms the principles set out in the guidance on Explainability, and reiterates that striking the appropriate balance between explainability and statistical accuracy, security, and commercial secrecy will require organisations to make trade-offs. A process should be in place to weigh and consider these trade-offs.

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Data Matters

JULY 8, 2019

Ensuring that a company is properly prepared for and responds to privacy and cyber security threats is a key corporate governance responsibility for directors and senior officers. Carry out a gap assessment of existing cyber security policies and procedures against information security regulatory requirements in the EU, US and elsewhere.

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IT Governance

APRIL 2, 2019

Anyone with an interest in information security will have encountered ISO 27001 , the international standard that describes best practice for an ISMS (information security management system). It’s a supplementary standard that provides advice on how to implement the security controls listed in Annex A of ISO 27001.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

DECEMBER 3, 2021

However, businesses that are not used to compliance with laws like the GDPR may find some of the new obligations challenging, for example, the PDPL introduces rights for individuals to access; rectify; correct; delete; restrict processing; request cessation of processing or transfer of data; and object to automated processing. Data security.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 22, 2024

The only data processing activities exempt from the GDPR are national security or law enforcement activities and purely personal uses of data. Returning to a previous example, a company collecting phone numbers for marketing purposes would be a controller. The organization offers data subjects easy ways to exercise their rights.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 7, 2019

A contract with the individual : for example, to supply goods or services they have requested, or to fulfil an obligation under an employee contract. Vital interests : for example, when processing data will protect someone’s physical integrity or life (either the data subject’s or someone else’s). Job applications.

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IT Governance

JUNE 13, 2019

This essentially means that you must consider privacy and information security risks at the outset of all projects that involve personal data. In this blog, we explain how data protection by design and by default works, and provide examples of the steps you should take to achieve it. Examples of data protection by design.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In relation to breaches, however, the heaviest fines apply to failure to report a breach to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) or to notify individuals, where there is a real risk of significant harm, as well as failure to record security incidents. How will “real risk of significant harm” be assessed in your organisation?

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

If you operate in Singapore, handle Singapore data, or maintain a server in Singapore, it is crucial that you have protocols in place to guide employees on what to do when a data breach occurs and consider doing a data breach tabletop exercise. (We Carry out data breach drills or tabletop exercises.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

That may sound daunting, but when cyber resilience is done right, your cyber security and incident response strategy will seem straightforward. Cyber resilience risk assessments cover everything associated with cyber security – i.e. the way you mitigate risks, meet regulatory requirements and deal with incidents that can’t be prevented.

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