Do you have a written incident response program? Do the people who are part of it – the outside legal team, crisis communications team, forensics team, for example – know they are part of it? Are contracts signed with outside service providers – or at least providers periodically reviewed and selected vendor already approved? Has […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to a KPMG survey of Financial Times 350 companies, 68% of the Boards have not received any training to deal with a cyber incident. This means that WHEN – and not if – a significant cyber event occurs, the board will have no plan in place to deal with it. This is distinct from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Besides being the refrain from a 1960’s Pete Seeger song, it seems to be my most common response when I read the news each day. Whether it is unprotected Amazon servers, Mongo database servers set up without passwords or something else, human error seems to be at the root of way too many data exposures. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you thought that people were overhyping the effects of ransomware, perhaps you should rethink that. The Maersk shipping line, which runs container ships and ports around the world, among many other businesses, had to shut down some of their port operations after computers were infected with the NotPetya ransomware. This week Maersk’s CEO […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Internet of Things never fails to amaze me. And make us think outside of the box. As the British publication The Register said, your smart lock may be knackered. Google says that knacker means damage severely and I think they are right. Here is the story. For AirBnB hosts, one security challenge they have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This case of intrigue may seem like it belongs in a spy novel, but in this case, it is winding up in the Board Room and the court room. Here is the story. Chicago based Guaranteed Rate courted the employee of a much smaller rival mortgage company, Benjamin Anderson. While still employed at the smaller […]
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