That’s because the federal government hasn’t been able to find a consensus on how to legislate broadly. Rather than wait, state lawmakers have been nudged by consumers, consumer advocates, and even companies to set their own rules. Of course, companies would rather comply with a single ...
But any data breach can leave you at risk of identity theft if the hackers want to use that information against you. Even a breach of less sensitive information like the one with Under Armour’s MyFitnessPal users can have a big impact—150 million users big to be exact.[3] On a ...
A cybercriminal may steal, alter, or destroy a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.Cyber threatscan range in sophistication from installing malicious software likemalwareor aransomwareattack (such asWannaCry) on a small business to attempting to take down critical infrastructure like ...
with each other; the closer the alignment, the closer you are to hitting your benchmark. In terms of financial benchmarks, I'd look at the cost-payout ratio and make sure you are getting value for money, and not paying absurd premiums that would outweigh the cost of a cyberbre...
How to Measure Data Sensitivity To determine how sensitive specific is and how it should be classified, think about the confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA triad) of that information and how it would impact your organization or its customers if it was exposed. This is a common way...
It’s very valuable to bring people in who have completely different angles: they help you to see, and prepare for, what the opposition would say. So for example we have some strong data protection advocates in our ranks, who might argue against disclosure on those grounds. Having this sort...
Implementing a CMP can have an impact on several different groups in your organization. Make sure you communicate: The marketing team should expect a decrease in web data The development team needs to classify new web scripts into one of the categories we listed above to make it easy to integ...
Upon seeing the term “information disclosure” in the context of security vulnerabilities, most will likely identify this as a risk. But many do not fully understand the extent of the negative impact and pervasiveness of information disclosure. ...
What level of cyber due diligence (vendor security assessment) do you feel is appropriate for vendors/suppliers that are considered in the low tier. For example lets say you have your vendors tiered as critical, high, med, low tier. Those crit...
Natural language processing (NLP):NLPtools can be used to analyze unstructured data sources, such as news articles, social media or customer interactions, and identify any risks that might impact an organization. AI-poweredsentiment analysis, for example, might help customer service agents better und...