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This survey was conducted online in the summer 2017, and it generated more than 260 responses from security leaders around the globe, with emphasis on North America, EMEA, India and APAC. Responses were consistent from organizations in all regions and sectors, with little statistical deviation. Forty percent of the respondent organizations have 10,000 or more employees MORE
How can a large healthcare delivery system efficiently handle identity and access management for thousands of clinicians and other users of patient data? Robert Siebenthaler of PeaceHealth explains how his organization, which operates 10 medical centers, has developed a fine-tuned, role-based approach MORE
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It’s been twenty years since Dr. Simpson Garfunkel conducted the first study analyzing the extent to which personal information remained on second-hand hard drives. In the intervening decade, the study has been replicated many times by other universities and data recovery services. NAID itself has commissioned such studies twice; one several years ago in Australia […]. The post NAID Publishes Second-hand Device Study Principles appeared first on IG GURU. MORE
The post Webinar: Stop, Drop, and Innovate: Six Case Studies via Mid-Michigan ARMA Chapter on Thursday, December 17th at 4pm Eastern appeared first on IG GURU. ARMA Education Information Governance Records Management Webinar Case Studies Innovation Mid-Michigan ARMA Service Providers MORE
Fed Warns of Consequences for Entire Financial System A cyberattack targeting one of the largest banks in the U.S. that stops the processing of payments likely would have a major ripple effect throughout the financial system, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York MORE
Treasury Department Says an Average of 1,100 Businesses Scammed Each Month Business email compromise scams are surging, and they're costing U.S. companies a total of more than $300 million a month, according to a recently released analysis by the U.S. Treasury Department. The report pinpoints which sectors are hardest hit by this type of fraud MORE
SAA’s Records Management Section is excited to announce the launching of a new peer-reviewed case study series under the umbrella of SAA Publications. Suggested case study length is 2,500 to 5,000 words. Elements of the case study include: introduction background/prior relevant work/institutional context challenge addressed strategies and resources employed analysis of successes and setbacks future plans. RM case studies MORE
Researchers Call on Breached Companies to Revamp Notification Even after being notified that their personal data has been compromised in a breach, only about a third of users change their passwords - and most are not strong or unique, according to a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, who call for changes in breach notification procedures MORE
New study shows SMBs face greater security exposure, but large companies still support vulnerable systems as well MORE
Because it's inevitable that some attackers will get around defenses, Kettering Health Network added an extra layer of endpoint security to help mitigate the risks posed by ransomware and other cyberthreats, says Michael Berry, director of information security. He describes what's unusual about the approach MORE
This survey was conducted online in the summer 2017, and it generated more than 260 responses from security leaders around the globe, with emphasis on North America, EMEA, India and APAC. Responses were consistent from organizations in all regions and sectors, with little statistical deviation. Forty percent of the respondent organizations have 10,000 or more employees MORE
Hospitals that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among heart patients in the following months or years because of cybersecurity remediation efforts, a new study posits. As PBS noted in its coverage of the Vanderbilt study, after data breaches as many as 36 additional deaths per 10,000 heart attacks occurred annually at the hundreds of hospitals examined. A copy of the new study is available here (PDF). MORE
Maria Martinez-Carey interviews Richard Gureski from ARMA Milwaukee on how his ARMA chapter is adapting to virtual meetings, and how they set up a growing virtual ICRM CRA and CRM study group available to anyone who contributes to the profession. MORE
The post SoReL-20M Sophos & ReversingLabs release 10 million disarmed samples for malware study appeared first on Security Affairs. Sophos and ReversingLabs released SoReL-20M, a database containing 20 million Windows Portable Executable files, including 10M malware samples. MORE
What are some of the most important aspects in managing vendor security risk when taking on third-parties to handle sensitive data? Mitch Parker, CISO of Indiana University Health, explains the critical steps his organization is taking in its approach to vendor risk MORE
Agency Issues Guidance Spelling Out Its Policy The FDA has issued new guidance spelling out its policy for organizations using electronic health record data in FDA-regulated clinical investigations, such as studies of the long-term safety of various drugs. MORE
Archiving Case Study web archive website preservation Hanzo Dynamic Capture dynamic web capture web archivingObjective. United Airlines has a massive, complex, ever-changing website. MORE
Pioneers Test Using the Technology for Identity and Access Management Government agencies and private sector organizations around the world are experimenting with the use of blockchain to help manage digital identity. Here are three examples of pioneering efforts in the U.S., Canada and India MORE
Now comes a study from Boston-based consultancy Air Worldwide that puts some hard numbers on the degree to which threat actors are plundering virtual machines. According to the study, poor management of machine identities leads directly to an estimated $52 billion to $72 billion in losses annually. We had a lively discussion about the backdrop of the study, and its going-forward implications. The study looked at firmographics and technographics and factored in actual events. MORE
The New York Times is reporting on the NSA's phone metadata program, which the NSA shut down last year: A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of Americans' domestic phone calls and text messages cost $100 million from 2015 to 2019, but yielded only a single significant investigation, according to a newly declassified study. did not already possess, said the study, which was produced by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board and briefed to Congress on Tuesday. [.]. MORE
Biometric authentication can be good for security and for business, according to a new study from Goode Intelligence MORE
OmniBallot Voting Platform Is Vulnerable to Hacking, Researchers Say Researchers at MIT and the University of Michigan have uncovered multiple security flaws in the online voting platform OmniBallot which could allow hackers to access and manipulate voter data. The platform is currently in use in three states for military personnel and disabled residents MORE
Report Estimates Anticipated Expenses for California Consumer Privacy Act Compliance The California Consumer Privacy Act could cost companies in the state a total of $55 billion for initial compliance expenses, according to a new study prepared for the state attorney general's office. MORE
Providing resources to build and support clinical studies in InForm. The company needed to supplement its study-building capabilities with outside support. Resources from our InForm build team assisted with study builds, including library development and template creation. Multiple studies built in compliance with the company’s SOPs. Oracle InForm Study-in-a-Box Jump Start. Does your organization face similar study-building challenges? MORE
Increasing Use of Open Source Software Creates More Opportunities for Flaws The number of reported vulnerabilities found in open source software more than doubled in 2019 to almost 1,000, with projects such as Magento, GitLab, and Jenkins posting the largest increases, according to security firm RiskSense MORE
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“The lawsuits are coming, and I hope they have a good general counsel,” said James Lewis , senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. MORE
The pandemic has accelerated the shift to e-commerce and raised new concerns about the use of paper money. Jim Cunha of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston describes a collaborative research project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to determine the feasibility of a digital alternative MORE
160 Weakness Lies in Devices Without Quality Entropy Sources IoT devices are generating duplicate prime numbers while generating RSA keys, putting them at risk of a factoring attack, according to new research, which shows such an attack could be done at scale and at a low computing cost MORE
To explore how and why (or why not) enterprises are … The post Forrester study finds cloud security fears unfounded appeared first on OpenText Blogs. This blog is co-authored by Alison Clarke and Sandi Nelson. MORE
Successful Hacking Operation Often Relied on Simple, Easy-to-Block Tactics Could your organization withstand an attack by the master hacking operation known as "Fxmsp"? Hollywood loves to portray hackers as having ninja-like skills. But Fxmsp often favored the simplest tools for the job, because they so often worked. Defenders: Take note MORE
Cisco is out with findings from its 2019 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, which shows the impact of GDPR compliance as well as how customers are asking more questions about how their data is secured. Cisco Chief Privacy Officer Michelle Dennedy analyzes the survey MORE
Veda Sankepally, an IT security manager at managed care company Molina Healthcare, describes critical steps in this case study interview What are some of moves that organizations can make to improve their identity and access management? MORE
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Researchers Call on Breached Companies to Revamp Notification Even after being notified that their personal data has been compromised in a breach, only about a third of users change their passwords - and most are not strong or unique, according to a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, who call for changes in breach notification procedures
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JANUARY 24, 2019
Cisco is out with findings from its 2019 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, which shows the impact of GDPR compliance as well as how customers are asking more questions about how their data is secured. Cisco Chief Privacy Officer Michelle Dennedy analyzes the survey
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Because it's inevitable that some attackers will get around defenses, Kettering Health Network added an extra layer of endpoint security to help mitigate the risks posed by ransomware and other cyberthreats, says Michael Berry, director of information security. He describes what's unusual about the approach
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Providing resources to build and support clinical studies in InForm. The company needed to supplement its study-building capabilities with outside support. Resources from our InForm build team assisted with study builds, including library development and template creation. Multiple studies built in compliance with the company’s SOPs. Oracle InForm Study-in-a-Box Jump Start. Does your organization face similar study-building challenges?
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AUGUST 19, 2019
Veda Sankepally, an IT security manager at managed care company Molina Healthcare, describes critical steps in this case study interview What are some of moves that organizations can make to improve their identity and access management?
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Since Sentara Healthcare adopted a DevSecOps approach, CISO Daniel Bowden says, his security team has gained improved visibility into the entire application development process
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How can a large healthcare delivery system efficiently handle identity and access management for thousands of clinicians and other users of patient data? Robert Siebenthaler of PeaceHealth explains how his organization, which operates 10 medical centers, has developed a fine-tuned, role-based approach
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Report Estimates Anticipated Expenses for California Consumer Privacy Act Compliance The California Consumer Privacy Act could cost companies in the state a total of $55 billion for initial compliance expenses, according to a new study prepared for the state attorney general's office.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 12, 2020
OmniBallot Voting Platform Is Vulnerable to Hacking, Researchers Say Researchers at MIT and the University of Michigan have uncovered multiple security flaws in the online voting platform OmniBallot which could allow hackers to access and manipulate voter data. The platform is currently in use in three states for military personnel and disabled residents
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Hospitals that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among heart patients in the following months or years because of cybersecurity remediation efforts, a new study posits. As PBS noted in its coverage of the Vanderbilt study, after data breaches as many as 36 additional deaths per 10,000 heart attacks occurred annually at the hundreds of hospitals examined. A copy of the new study is available here (PDF).
Data Breach Today
JUNE 16, 2020
Here's How a Light Bulb's Vibrations Can Be Used to Intercept Conversations A new research paper describes a side-channel attack technique that could enable hackers to eavesdrop on a conversation by tracking vibrations in a hanging light bulb
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 26, 2019
Pioneers Test Using the Technology for Identity and Access Management Government agencies and private sector organizations around the world are experimenting with the use of blockchain to help manage digital identity. Here are three examples of pioneering efforts in the U.S., Canada and India
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Maria Martinez-Carey interviews Richard Gureski from ARMA Milwaukee on how his ARMA chapter is adapting to virtual meetings, and how they set up a growing virtual ICRM CRA and CRM study group available to anyone who contributes to the profession.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 9, 2020
Increasing Use of Open Source Software Creates More Opportunities for Flaws The number of reported vulnerabilities found in open source software more than doubled in 2019 to almost 1,000, with projects such as Magento, GitLab, and Jenkins posting the largest increases, according to security firm RiskSense
OpenText Information Management
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
To explore how and why (or why not) enterprises are … The post Forrester study finds cloud security fears unfounded appeared first on OpenText Blogs. This blog is co-authored by Alison Clarke and Sandi Nelson.
Data Breach Today
JULY 2, 2020
Successful Hacking Operation Often Relied on Simple, Easy-to-Block Tactics Could your organization withstand an attack by the master hacking operation known as "Fxmsp"? Hollywood loves to portray hackers as having ninja-like skills. But Fxmsp often favored the simplest tools for the job, because they so often worked. Defenders: Take note
Data Breach Today
JULY 19, 2019
Treasury Department Says an Average of 1,100 Businesses Scammed Each Month Business email compromise scams are surging, and they're costing U.S. companies a total of more than $300 million a month, according to a recently released analysis by the U.S. Treasury Department. The report pinpoints which sectors are hardest hit by this type of fraud
IG Guru
DECEMBER 10, 2020
The post Webinar: Stop, Drop, and Innovate: Six Case Studies via Mid-Michigan ARMA Chapter on Thursday, December 17th at 4pm Eastern appeared first on IG GURU. ARMA Education Information Governance Records Management Webinar Case Studies Innovation Mid-Michigan ARMA Service Providers
Hanzo Learning Center
AUGUST 13, 2020
Archiving Case Study web archive website preservation Hanzo Dynamic Capture dynamic web capture web archivingObjective. United Airlines has a massive, complex, ever-changing website.
IG Guru
MARCH 21, 2019
It’s been twenty years since Dr. Simpson Garfunkel conducted the first study analyzing the extent to which personal information remained on second-hand hard drives. In the intervening decade, the study has been replicated many times by other universities and data recovery services. NAID itself has commissioned such studies twice; one several years ago in Australia […]. The post NAID Publishes Second-hand Device Study Principles appeared first on IG GURU.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 17, 2019
Weakness Lies in Devices Without Quality Entropy Sources IoT devices are generating duplicate prime numbers while generating RSA keys, putting them at risk of a factoring attack, according to new research, which shows such an attack could be done at scale and at a low computing cost
Dark Reading
MAY 1, 2019
New study shows SMBs face greater security exposure, but large companies still support vulnerable systems as well
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
What are some of the most important aspects in managing vendor security risk when taking on third-parties to handle sensitive data? Mitch Parker, CISO of Indiana University Health, explains the critical steps his organization is taking in its approach to vendor risk
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 17, 2020
Fed Warns of Consequences for Entire Financial System A cyberattack targeting one of the largest banks in the U.S. that stops the processing of payments likely would have a major ripple effect throughout the financial system, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 14, 2020
The post SoReL-20M Sophos & ReversingLabs release 10 million disarmed samples for malware study appeared first on Security Affairs. Sophos and ReversingLabs released SoReL-20M, a database containing 20 million Windows Portable Executable files, including 10M malware samples.
The Last Watchdog
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Now comes a study from Boston-based consultancy Air Worldwide that puts some hard numbers on the degree to which threat actors are plundering virtual machines. According to the study, poor management of machine identities leads directly to an estimated $52 billion to $72 billion in losses annually. We had a lively discussion about the backdrop of the study, and its going-forward implications. The study looked at firmographics and technographics and factored in actual events.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 5, 2018
This survey was conducted online in the summer 2017, and it generated more than 260 responses from security leaders around the globe, with emphasis on North America, EMEA, India and APAC. Responses were consistent from organizations in all regions and sectors, with little statistical deviation. Forty percent of the respondent organizations have 10,000 or more employees
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JULY 18, 2018
Agency Issues Guidance Spelling Out Its Policy The FDA has issued new guidance spelling out its policy for organizations using electronic health record data in FDA-regulated clinical investigations, such as studies of the long-term safety of various drugs.
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The New York Times is reporting on the NSA's phone metadata program, which the NSA shut down last year: A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of Americans' domestic phone calls and text messages cost $100 million from 2015 to 2019, but yielded only a single significant investigation, according to a newly declassified study. did not already possess, said the study, which was produced by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board and briefed to Congress on Tuesday. [.].
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“The lawsuits are coming, and I hope they have a good general counsel,” said James Lewis , senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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JANUARY 22, 2018
This survey was conducted online in the summer 2017, and it generated more than 260 responses from security leaders around the globe, with emphasis on North America, EMEA, India and APAC. Responses were consistent from organizations in all regions and sectors, with little statistical deviation. Forty percent of the respondent organizations have 10,000 or more employees
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