IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2023

Examples of vishing HR scam In this scam, an organisation’s HR manager receives a phone call from someone claiming to be from the bank. They often do this under the guise of being of tax or social security payments. Definition, Examples and Prevention appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 25, 2024

BPR examples are not one-time projects, but rather examples of a continuous journey of innovation and change focused on optimizing end-to-end processes and eliminating redundancies. This blog outlines some BPR examples that benefit from a BPM methodology.

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IT Governance

JUNE 8, 2020

Organisations often fall into the trap of lumping cyber security together with their other IT functions. Although they are obviously connected – anti-malware, firewalls and a host of other technologies are a core part of cyber security – there is a lot more to it. What they need is a wider understanding of cyber security.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 25, 2022

Yet another adversarial ML attack: Most deep neural networks are trained by stochastic gradient descent. Now “stochastic” is a fancy Greek word for “random”; it means that the training data are fed into the model in random order. So what happens if the bad guys can cause the order to be not random?

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Schneier on Security

JULY 12, 2023

For example, we use publicly available information to help train Google’s AI models and build products and features like Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities. (I I quote the privacy policy as of today.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Organisations are always looking for ways to improve their cyber security defences, but they often overlook the value of enrolling their employees on cyber security training courses. If you want to keep your organisation secure, you need your employees to know what they’re doing. Meet compliance requirements.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Organisations are always looking for ways to improve their cyber security defences, but they often overlook the value of enrolling their employees on cyber security training courses. If you want to keep your organisation secure, you need your employees to know what they’re doing. Meet compliance requirements.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 11, 2022

They can also set an example of what good security hygiene looks like. It's not just the rights and privileges that CXOs have on the network.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 19, 2021

On January 18, 2021, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) released draft Guidelines 01/2021 on Examples regarding Data Breach Notification (the “Guidelines”). Training should take place regularly and be tailored to the controller’s processing and business activities.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Interesting research: “ Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training “: Abstract: Humans are capable of strategically deceptive behavior: behaving helpfully in most situations, but then behaving very differently in order to pursue alternative objectives when given the opportunity.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You’ll often see the terms cyber security and information security used interchangeably. In this blog, we explain what information security and cyber security are, the differences between them and how they fit into your data protection practices. What is information security? This is cyber security.

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KnowBe4

JULY 25, 2022

Just when you thought scammers couldn't get more tricky in their attacks, this example will prove you wrong.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

US Cyber Command and the Information Warfare Division (IWD) of the Australian Defense Force to develop a virtual cyber training platform. The United States and Australia have signed a first-ever cyber agreement to develop a virtual cyber training platform, the project will be designed by the U.S. Australian cooperation.

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IT Governance

APRIL 20, 2020

With the coronavirus pandemic keeping us stuck inside and struggling to find ways to remain productive, now might be the perfect time to take an online cyber security training course. Let’s take a look at five of the best online courses for cyber security. Certified Cyber Security Foundation Training Course.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 24, 2024

New research into poisoning AI models : The researchers first trained the AI models using supervised learning and then used additional “safety training” methods, including more supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and adversarial training. After this, they checked if the AI still had hidden behaviors.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. GDPR (among other legal requirements in the EU and elsewhere) can expose multinational organizations to hefty financial penalties, additional rules for disclosing data breaches, and increased scrutiny of the adequacy of their data security.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Employees forget the guidance given on phishing training courses within six months, new research has revealed. The findings, which were presented at the USENIX SOUPS security conference in August, were the result of a year-long investigation into the effectiveness of staff awareness training. What type of training works best?

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Cyber security awareness training is one of the most important steps an organisation can take to protect its systems. Unfortunately, research by Privatise Business VPN suggests that staff aren’t getting the training they need to secure their organisation’s systems. The benefits of cyber security training.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2023

New research shows the attackers behind one such scheme have developed an ingenious way of keeping their malware from being taken down by security experts or law enforcement: By hosting the malicious files on a decentralized, anonymous cryptocurrency blockchain.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

UK organisations are overlooking the importance of cyber security staff awareness training, instead investing in expensive and unnecessary technologies, a VMware and Forbes Insight study has found. So, why are businesses trapped in this cycle of investing in cyber security solutions they don’t need? Same solutions, same results.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The vast majority of cyber attacks against organizations pivot off the weakest security link: employees. Related: Gamification training gains traction. This is a platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing tests focusing on the problem of social-engineering. Here’s a guide to five such services.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2022

Meanwhile, 200,000 well-trained and technically skilled military service members are discharged each year. Training and certification must become more accessible and hiring criteria must change to encourage veterans to apply for these roles. This experience can also be helpful when training cybersecurity talent. And it works.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Congress is considering legislation that would prevent the world's largest train maker, the Chinese-owned CRRC Corporation, from competing on new contracts in the United States. But another part involves fears about national security. This is a complicated topic. The risk of discovery is too great, and the payoff would be too low.

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IT Governance

JULY 18, 2019

Let’s take a look at how it works, along with an example to help you spot the clues of an attack. However, other than creating a false sense of security, the attack works in the same way as any other type of phishing scam. An example of a spear phishing email. Here’s an example of a real spear phishing email.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Interesting research: " TrojDRL: Trojan Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents ": Abstract: : Recent work has identified that classification models implemented as neural networks are vulnerable to data-poisoning and Trojan attacks at training time.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

With smart-working many companies turn to tools like robotic process automation (RPA software) to help make adjustments on the business processes … is it secure? It’s become evident that many businesses lack the necessary anti-hacking training. Lack of Necessary Training in New Users. Rising RPA Adoption.

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IT Governance

JUNE 6, 2019

In this blog, we use real-life examples to demonstrate five clues to help you spot phishing scams. For example, emails from Google will read ‘@google.com’. Take this example of a scam mimicking PayPal: Image: WeLiveSecurity. Take this example of a scam imitating Windows: Image: KnowBe4. Not even Google.

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IT Governance

MAY 27, 2021

For all the talk of criminal hacking, ransomware infections and the technologies to prevent them, the key to protecting your organisation is cyber security awareness training. The importance of cyber security staff awareness. Cyber security awareness best practices. Training should occur multiple times a year.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

Since that day I received hundreds of emails from students, researchers and practitioners all around the world asking me questions about how to follow up that research and how to contribute to expanding the training set. Now, if you wish you are able to generate training sets by yourself and to test new algorithms directly into WEKA.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 29, 2018

one of the biggest cyber security threats is inside your organisation , there’s never been a better time to ensure your organisation has an effective GDPR staff awareness training programme in place. . How to deliver staff awareness training – seven top tips . Deliver cost-effective GDPR training to your staff .

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 29, 2018

one of the biggest cyber security threats is inside your organisation , there’s never been a better time to ensure your organisation has an effective GDPR staff awareness training programme in place. . How to deliver staff awareness training – seven top tips . Deliver cost-effective GDPR training to your staff .

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 24, 2023

In an ideal world, cybersecurity analysts would get legitimate daily reports on improving a company’s security. Scammers now routinely spray out fake bug reports designed to take advantage of the naiveite and/or lack of vigilance of security analysts in the field. Security analysts should be on high alert.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That’s why Requirement 12 of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) instructs organisations to implement policies and procedures to help staff manage risks. It provides a detailed outline of information security responsibilities for all staff, contractors, partners and third parties that access the CDE.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A UK government report published last year found that 48% of organisations lacked the expertise to complete routine cyber security practices. The report also found that 30% of organisations had skills gaps in more advanced areas, such as penetration testing, forensic analysis and security architecture.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Explore some real-world instances below and discover when and how to use DLP procedures for optimal data security. Industry-specific rules: Check relevant regulations on a regular basis to verify data security compliance , and use DLP to protect sensitive data and reduce regulatory risks.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Related: The primacy of DevSecOps Through harnessing the power of Generative AI, enterprises can usher in a new era of DevSecOps, elevating development velocity, security, and robustness to unprecedented levels. AI engineers can train the AI model on a dataset of historical code changes.

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IT Governance

JUNE 15, 2022

In an increasingly digital world, there are an escalating number of cyber security risks for business to address. IT Governance identified more than 1,200 publicly disclosed data breaches in 2021 , while another report found that security incidents cost almost £3 million on average. Poor patch management. Weak passwords.

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