IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

IT Governance found 98 publicly disclosed security incidents in May 2023, accounting for 98,226,877 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Personal data 98

Armstrong Archives

DECEMBER 19, 2023

No matter the size of a business, a well-defined record retention policy serves multiple purposes: ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, aiding in efficient document management, and securing sensitive information. Each category will have different legal and operational retention requirements.

Compliance 52

Compliance Archiving Digital transformation Sales 52

KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

That page also has a download link for a PDF of the entire paper (via Reddit). "In In this paper, we introduce generative agents—computational software agents that simulate believable human behavior," reads the summary. Security researchers are jailbreaking large language models to get around safety rules. Users beware.

Insurance 72

Insurance Security awareness Phishing Ransomware 72

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We make IT, security, or any business decision by weighing the risks and the rewards. Or as is often the case with security, what costs can we skip and still escape big penalties later? Unfortunately for those of us indulging in wishful thinking, the likelihood and costs of data breaches continue to increase.

Insurance 125

Insurance Ransomware Data breaches Cloud 125

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The ICO found that Interserve had failed to put appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure personal data (in contravention of Articles 5(1)(f) and 32 GDPR) for a period of ~20 months. On the face of it, this is a sizeable fine issued to a non household name controller for perceived failings in information security.

Security 52

Security GDPR Personal data Insurance 52

Data Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In the summer of 2018, the California Legislature drafted and passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in record time. This abbreviated legislative process produced a bill with numerous gaps and anomalies, however. update their privacy policies with numerous disclosures.

Privacy 60

Privacy Sales Paper Compliance 60

KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

link] Spear Phishing Attacks Increase 127% As Use of Impersonation Skyrockets Impersonation of users, domains and brands is on the rise, as is the use of malicious links, in response to security vendors improving their ability to detect malicious attachments. I suggest you send the following short alert to as many people as you can.

Phishing 82

Phishing Security awareness Compliance Risk 82