Equifax Breach Response Turns Dumpster Fire

I cannot recall a previous data breach in which the breached company's public outreach and response has been so haphazard and ill-conceived as the one coming right now from big-three credit bureau Equifax, which rather clumsily announced Thursday that an intrusion jeopardized Social security...

NIST Calls for Submissions to Secure Data Against Quantum Computing

For a layman, it may be difficult to fathom how a standards body could be playing catch-up to a threat that could be at least a decade away. But that’s the position NIST finds itself in with the risk that quantum computers pose to existing cryptographic algorithms. Working, practical quantum...

A huge applause from the NIST-OCR-HIPAA 2015 conference

It looked like the 8th annual conference may have garnered record-breaking attendance as I noticed hotel staff rushing to add skirted tables and chairs to the back of the room to accommodate a standing-room-only crowd. I guess that was to be expected given the star-studded line-up of presenters...

Determining if your Company is Prepared for FedRAMP

Many companies interested in pursuing FedRAMP are seeking guidelines, checklists and any referenceable source to help them understand and determine their level of preparedness to go through the FedRAMP process. The GSAs FedRAMP.gov site provides documentation on the FedRAMP process in their "Guid...

Cyber 9/11, cyber doomsday...between fear and need for action

It's not a mystery, every nation is worried of the level of security of its infrastructure, the United States are among the most concerned governments due the high number of cyber-attack against its networks. US Government representative such us former States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and...

Survey: SMBs Remain Blissfully Unfazed by Cyberthreats

More than three quarters of small business owners claim their companies are safe from cyber attacks, yet only 17 percent of those businesses have implemented a formal cybersecurity plan. This is just one of many problems for small businesses in the digital realm, according to a joint survey .PDF...

Obama will control internet, signs Emergency Internet Control

Barack Obama has signed an executive order that could hand control of the internet to the U.S. Government, in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack. "The federal government must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical a...

FEMA: State, Local Officials Not Prepared to Respond to Cyberattack

A report by the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA finds that state and local government officials in the U.S. are pessimistic about their ability to respond to a cyberattacks. The National Preparedness Report NPR was commissioned by the Obama Administration. It found that, although the...

"Enter at your own Risk" Cyber Security Awareness Campaign

"Enter at your own Risk" Cyber Security Awareness Campaign Coming this January , For the First time in Cyber History the Best, The Brightest & the Most Daring Come Together For an Information Extravaganza that will blow your Cyber Mind ! It's a time for us to offer education that increases online...

Ted Julian on Data Breach Response and Incident Analysis

Dennis Fisher talks with Ted Julian of CO3 about why even the more enlightened organizations still find themselves unprepared when hit with a data breach, the need for more public data to help analyze the nature and effects of breaches and how third-party breaches affect organizations. Podcast...

After The Hack: Tips For Working With Local Law Enforcement

SAN FRANCISCO–If you are in business long enough, you’re going to get hacked and you’re going to have to call the cops. Maybe you’ll need their help finding the perpetrators of a crime in which your business was victimized. Maybe employees will have conducted a crime involving IT, or maybe you’ll...

Europe tests cyber defences against hackers

BRUSSELS AFP – European computer guards battled Thursday against a simulated attempt by hackers to bring down critical Internet services in the first pan-continental test of cyber defences. All 27 of the European Union's member nations as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland took part in the...

When" a" is the filter-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

When you get to the shell later found the other's don't know is the firewall or ids or hips or a certain cottage products turned out to put \ To the filter, not the path of the jump is very inconvenient to say The following provides evil the a small piece of code to emergency preparedness when...

Five ways to survive a data breach investigation

From CSO Bill Brenner When the digital forensics crew comes in to investigate a possible data breach, company executives often make matters worse by not being prepared. To help companies deal with this issue, CSOonline talks to the experts csoonline.com and offers these five steps that can be tak...