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Inadequate Cybersecurity

Security Boulevard

It is customary to begin an article on cybersecurity with statements about huge increases in threats and attacks and mounting cyberspace losses from fraud, identity theft, ransoms, data exfiltration, blackmail, etc. Few, who confront cyber issues daily, question such assertions, but there are some who say “prove it!”

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Notification no-nos: What to avoid when alerting customers of a breach

SC Magazine

For instance, Winick cited a 2017 New York Post article that suggested credit rating company Equifax had blamed its software vendor for a major breach, “thus violating another crisis communications commandment of ‘Be accountable.’” Sometimes, however, a business offers very little in the way of comfort, helpful information or restitution.