Many small businesses and a lot of large ones use third party IT service providers called MSPs or Managed Service Providers. In almost all cases, these MSPs have the keys to your IT universe. They have access to your data. They also have access to all of your access rules. If they also help you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Optus, the second largest telecom vendor in Australia was hacked and the hackers want a million dollars in exchange for not selling the data on ten plus million people that they stole. Optus is being investigated over the breach by the Australian Federal Police. The hacker leaked sample data that appears to validate that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It used to be that you stuck a key in a hole in your dashboard (and later in your steering column) and that was the end of the electronics. There were a few circuit boards, but mostly there were a lot of electro-mechanical linkages. Electronics sourcing says there are a thousand chips in a car […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Organizations manage risk. Risk has a lot of dimensions. Everything from not being able to get raw materials to hurricanes. Possibly your biggest risk is your third party relationships. As companies continue to outsource parts of their supply chain to other companies, those companies have your data. And if those companies get breached, you get […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Office of Management and Budget released guidance for federal agencies AND CONTRACTORS, telling them what they need to do in order to comply with the executive order on cybersecurity. Of course, since this is the government, it took OMB more than a year to release this. This does have a big side benefit and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I’m not sure this secret weapon is legal. In fact, I am pretty sure that it is illegal. But, apparently, that isn’t stopping some lawyers and others from using it. I am not saying that everyone is a crook. They are not. But some, apparently, are perfectly willing to break the law. Carlo Pacileo was […]
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