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‘Incompetent’ FCC Fiddles With Data Breach Rules

Security Boulevard

The post ‘Incompetent’ FCC Fiddles With Data Breach Rules appeared first on Security Boulevard. FCC FAIL: While Rome burns, Federal Communications Commission is once again behind the curve.

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‘Extraordinary, Egregious’ Data Breach at House and Senate

Security Boulevard

The post ‘Extraordinary, Egregious’ Data Breach at House and Senate appeared first on Security Boulevard. Capitol Trouble: Senators, representatives and staffers suffer PII leak. Could it finally kickstart some action?

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The Security Industry is Protecting the Wrong Thing

Security Boulevard

When the security industry talks about a data breach, often the first question asked involves the state of the victim’s network security – not the breach of data. It’s because organizations have their security priorities backward, and that needs to change. Why is this?

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Hackers Also Have Financial Reporting And Quotas :)

Security Boulevard

We should not be focused so much on the organization’s Return on investment or Return on asset around security spending; we should consider for a moment that with every significant security awareness training, every adaptive control, and every security policy only makes the task “of being hacked” even more expensive for the cybercriminals.

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Common IT Security Roles and Responsibilities Explained

Spinone

To automate your job and remain time-efficient, you’ll probably need specialized software that helps you with app security assessment and whitelisting/blacklisting. A DPO must be appointed in organizations working with large-scale systematic monitoring or processing of sensitive data. You can read more about the role of DPO here.

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Local government cybersecurity: 5 best practices

Malwarebytes

Sponsored by CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the.gov domain comes with several key security benefits: MFA is enforced on all accounts in the.gov registrar, and user accounts cannot use passwords that have been found in known data breaches. Network monitoring. Consider outsourcing.

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Reducing Human Error Security Threats with a Remote Workforce

Security Boulevard

Lack of employee knowledge, distraction, and neglect all can leave remote networks vulnerable. While there is no way to guarantee against data breaches, securing the human element can help mitigate security threats and improve the integrity of your remote work systems.