Small businesses especially, seem to be realizing, finally, that consumers don’t want to be the “product”. After Apple changed the rules last year to require businesses to get permission to track users’ behavior and share their information, things changed. The biggies – Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are estimating that they will lose $18 billion in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember the Equifax breach a few years ago? Almost 150 million people were affected. Now its competitor is under the microscope. The class action microscope. A class action has been filed that says that Experian did little to prevent account takeovers by bad guys. The suit, quoting Brian Krebs’ blog (yes, really), says that hackers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have noticed something recently from some members of the CMMC consulting community. Create fear. Statements like CMMC will be in contracts in May of next year and if you are not CMMC compliant you will not be able to get DoD contracts are in their sales pieces. Here is the reality. CMMC is really […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The only way that any company is going to get to real security is if they get to Secure by Design. What does that mean? Well, there is no hard and fast definition, but here are some good suggestions: LIMIT SHADOW IT You can’t protect what you don’t know is there. Shadow IT also has […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]TSA Updates Cybersecurity Guidelines for Pipeline Operators After the Colonial Pipeline meltdown last year, TSA, who regulates pipeline cybersecurity (don’t ask), issued a set of regulations for pipeline operators to follow. Given that TSA had less than a dozen people in their cybersecurity department and zero industrial IoT expertise, it is not a surprise that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Voyager Digital is a cryptocurrency “bank”. It isn’t regulated like a bank, which a problem for users. The have debit cards and make loans. They trade crypto. Accept deposits. They also offered insane “rewards” (12%) so they could invest in the crypto space. In order to fuel these crazy payouts, they had to make risky […]
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