The New York Stock Exchange, in partnership with Palo Alto Networks, 40+ authors and The Security Roundtable, have published a free eBook entitled Navigating The Digital Age: The Definitive Cybersecurity Guide for Directors and Officers. While some might argue about the hyperbole surrounding calling it THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE, it does provide a lot of information […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Businesses have long complained about complying with 46 different cybersecurity/privacy laws (plus the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands) and the lack of a national privacy law. Alabama, Kentucky, New Mexico and South Dakota are the only states without such laws. The states have fired back saying that a national […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if complying with 47 states individual laws on breaches wasn’t complicated enough, if you are a defense contractor, you now have to comply with DoD rules on disclosing breaches. I suspect that part of this is due to the fact that the DoD thinks that many of the state laws are too loose and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those companies who ask why they should invest in reducing cyber risk when they have cyber breach insurance – here is why. As a result of recent breaches, cyber insurance premiums for those companies whom insurance companies deem to be in high risk industries saw their premiums go up, on average, 32%. In addition, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AT&T released it’s first public cybersecurity incident analysis report last week. As a network security services provider, they get to see the attacks in real time. One service that AT&T offers is to mitigate security threats in the network before they ever reach you. They also offer cyber security consulting services. AT&T’s competitor Verizon also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This afternoon, Google Apps went down for a few hours. Judging by the activity on the Twitterverse, you would have thought the world had ended. You can check the outage yourself by going to Google’s AppsStatus page on the web (google.com/appsstatus). It appears that Google Docs, Sheets, Drive and other parts of the Google Apps […]
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