The world’s most advance industrial malware – malware that is designed to go after industrial control systems in places like power plants – called PIPEDREAM, may already have infiltrated some critical infrastructure control systems, waiting to unleash who knows what. Global business advisory firm Ankura said that they are concerned that PIPEDREAM cannot be stopped […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cybersecurity and privacy are a key pillar of every company’s risk governance program – or at least should be. Alicja Cade, Director, Financial Services, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud suggests some questions Boards and CEOs should be asking about the company’s cybersecurity program. Here are some questions that she is recommending the Board gets […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FTC revised the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information aka the Safeguards Rule in 2021 and in about 7 weeks the changes become effective. The FTC updates this rule every 20 years or so to make sure that it is still state of the art. The new rule borrowed a lot from New York’s financial […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Tech Industry Pain Good for NSA Rob Joyce, NSA’s cyber director, says that they are seeing a boost in recruitment following waves of layoffs in the tech sector. While he is not giving numbers, any help with mid and high level recruiting would be good for the good guys. Remember that due to the clearance […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Today the FBI arrested the person they say leaked hundreds of classified documents on US surveillance related to the war in Ukraine. The impact of this leak may rise to the level of the damage caused by Edward Snowden in 2013. They continue to find more classified documents as the investigation continues. What is different […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I understand why they want to do this and I hope they have some smart people trying to figure out the rules, but given things move so fast, it is likely that any rule will be obsolete in 6 months and the government is not good at dealing with situations like that. In a document soliciting public […]
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