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Europe’s Spies Are No Different Than U.S. Spies

While there has been a lot of noise over the ECJ ruling invalidating Safe Harbor based on NSA spying among other things, there has not been much talk about what the EU countries are doing.  Basically, it is no different than what we are doing. Given that most communications live on the Internet, you certainly […]

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Vendor and Supply Chain Risk

Businesses have always outsourced work.  It used to be plumbers and what were referred to as “the trades”.  Now it is programmers and manufacturing. What is different now is the degree of connectedness that those suppliers have. A couple of examples: Target uses HVAC contractors to maintain the refrigeration in their stores. It used to […]

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Buying A Smart Home – Food For Thought

In the world of a connected home (or any other building), when you sell it or buy it, you need to consider the security and privacy implications.  Does the former owner still have access to the security cameras?  HVAC?  Alarm system?  Are the smart devices not so smart anymore?  Have they EVER been patched?  Are […]

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Board Involvement In Cybersecurity Still Not What It Should Be

Price Waterhouse surveyed 10,000 CEOs, CFOs, CIOs and other executives and amazingly only 45% said their boards participated in cybersecurity strategy.  While that is up from 42%, it should be close to 100%. The PwC study respondents reported a 38% uptick in cyber-assaults since 2014, with the boards spending $77 billion on tools and processes […]

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