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What Is an Insider Threat? Definition, Types, and Examples

IT Governance

Financially motivated malicious insiders Security experts often say that ‘personal data is the new currency’. That’s a slight exaggeration (good luck trying to pay rent with your email address), but the point remains: legitimate organisations and cyber criminals alike are trying to get their hands on personal data.

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Is the Resurgence of Phishing Attacks A Cause For Concern?

Adapture

The malware can be a system-locking ransomware, a credential-stealing keylogger, a network-crippling worm, or just about any havoc-wreaking miscreant. login credentials, personal data, etc). The previous three were examples of phishing attacks of the ‘spray and pray’ variety. The rise of COVID-flavored phishing emails.

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How to Perform a Content Migration - Your Checklist for Success

AIIM

Technical Specialists: A migration could require technical support for the movement of data and questions about implementation and data structures. The source and target system administrators should be involved as well. This is especially important when dealing with personal data or other sensitive types of information.

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Why Data Democratization? Why Now? What Does It Look Like?

erwin

In data democratization, the role of IT is not to provide the data to those users, but to ensure that they access only the data they need, with organizational control. For example, the organization doesn’t want to lose control of the data and have it end up in unpredictable places, like USB drives and users’ personal devices.

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Cyber Blackmail: More Than Just Ransomware

The Texas Record

The plethora of attacks has sent security professionals and system administrators scrambling to ensure their systems and backups are safe, and executives taking a second look at their cyber security programs. million dollars in recovery efforts to date. [1]