On Friday Title industry software and consulting provider was hit by a ransomware attack. Cloudstar operates 6 data centers and supports over 40,000 customer users. Now those customers are wondering what are they going to do. Cloudstar users who close real estate sales are dependent on Cloudstar’s systems being up. Cloudstar has been down since […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First it was California (version 1 and version 2); then it was Virginia. Now it is Colorado. IT IS NOT GOING TO STOP THERE. California’s CCPA covered human resources data somewhat. CPRA covers it completely and will require HR departments to create programs to protect HR data. This includes notices at the time data is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Talk about a political football, oh my. Florida has passed a law outlawing them. Not sure that Florida is a bastion of privacy – just wants to stick it to certain folks. But, if some other state or other company requires it, the law is meaningless. Lets say, just making something up, that New York […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The GAO, formerly known as the General Accounting Office, works for Congress and does studies of how horribly inefficient the government is. In theory, that is so Congress can create new laws to make them do what any sensible organization would do without the laws. Here is one example. The GAO reviewed the security practice […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]USTRANSCOM Starts CMMC Lite Now The DoD’s transportation command, the folks who are in charge of getting all the stuff that the military needs from where it is to where it needs to be, has announced that they are implementing a light version of CMMC NOW instead of waiting for the five years that it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD Working on CMMC-Fedramp ‘Reciprocity’ by Year End CMMC, the DoD’s new cybersecurity standard is designed to measure security practices of companies and the servers in the computer rooms and data centers. But what about the stuff in the cloud. That is covered by another government standard called FedRAMP. But those two standards have different […]
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