All Cybersecurity articles – Page 16
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PremiumAsk a CCO: What’s your role in creating/implementing cyber-security policies?
Five senior compliance practitioners share insights on their roles in implementing and overseeing cyber-security policies and procedures.
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ArticleSpecial report: Compliance, infosec & battling cyber threats
LifePoint Health’s VP for Compliance Program Operations/Chief Privacy Officer Ellen Hunt and VP/CISO Andy Heins share how they work ”hand in glove” to protect their company’s data from bad actors.
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WebcastCPE Webcast: How modern cyber-threat intelligence can enrich system security
Threat Intelligence is normally used to enrich the process of security assessment, providing proof on the enforcement of security controls required to be secure and compliant.
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ArticleCyber-insurance: Why you need it and how to choose the right plan
As cyber-attacks surge, the need for cyber-insurance is growing more urgent. But it’s critical for companies to first familiarize themselves with how to navigate the labyrinth of cyber-insurance products on the market so that they are properly covered.
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ArticleKroger joins victims of Accellion data breach
Two months after cloud service vendor Accellion first identified one of its legacy products was targeted by a sophisticated cyber-attack, users of the product continue to feel the impact, with grocery chain Kroger the latest to reveal its exposure.
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ArticleSurvey: Firms enhanced cybersecurity in 2020, but not enough
Companies forced to pivot to remote work in a global health crisis spent the bulk of 2020 grappling with heightened cyber-security risks. A year later, compliance practitioners say their companies’ cyber-security postures are better for it—even in the wake of the stunning SolarWinds hack.
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WebcastCPE Webcast: Vital framework to defensible data incident and breach response
Today’s breach landscape is unprecedented and complex. Every organization is facing potential enforcement of many interconnected and overlapping laws in multiple jurisdictions.
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ArticleFINRA report: Top risk areas for AML, cyber-security
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has published a new report designed to help inform member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from its examinations and risk monitoring programs.
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ArticleSurvey: Pandemic pervades executives’ top 10 risks for 2021
The aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic dominates the top risks that will keep boards of directors and executive management teams on their toes in 2021, a new survey by Protiviti and NC State’s ERM Initiative finds.
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ResourceWhite paper: Digital Transformation & Cyber Risk: What You Need to Know to Stay Safe
CyberGRX and Ponemon Institute surveyed 581 IT security and 302 C-suite executives to determine what impact digital transformation is having on cybersecurity and how prepared organizations are to deal with that impact.
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ArticleSolarWinds hack turning into Pandora’s box of cyber-risk
The more we learn about the SolarWinds hack, the more troubled compliance officers should be by the scope and breadth of the risks their companies might have incurred.
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ArticleNYDFS regulation a best-practices model for cyber-security training
Companies must make cyber-security a continuous priority as threats evolve, often more quickly than the technology and regulations to counter them. That’s why the New York Department of Financial Services, under Maria Vullo, developed a policy that should act as a model for organizations.
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ResourceWhite paper: Reducing Cyber Risk for the Financial Service Industry
The financial services industry is a leading target for cyber criminals because there’s more than one way one way to profit from an attack.
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ArticleCyber-Risk Summit: Compliance should view cyber-security through prism of risk
What’s most important for compliance officers is to understand the risks breaches and hacks pose to their organizations, not the technical manner of how those breaches occur, according to an expert panel at CW’s virtual Cyber-Risk & Data Privacy Summit.
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ArticleCyber-Risk Summit: 7 best practices for protecting employee health data
Experts at CW’s virtual Cyber-Risk and Data Privacy Summit explain the importance for companies to review and enhance their current data security compliance policies and procedures.
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ArticleExcellus Health Plan fined $5.1M for 2015 data breach
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights fined Excellus Health Plan $5.1 million for failures relating to a 2015 data breach that exposed the personal information of 9.3 million individuals.
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ArticleBritish Airways breach could cost billions in landmark class-action push
British Airways faces the largest group claim ever made in U.K. legal history over a 2018 data breach that exposed the financial and personal details of more than 400,000 of its customers.
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ArticleBiden names NSA cyber head to White House position
Anne Neuberger, currently the cyber-security director at the National Security Agency, has been appointed to fill a newly created cyber-security position on President-elect Joe Biden’s National Security Council.
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ArticleLearning from SolarWinds: Five steps to fortify your cloud supply chain
For most companies, supply chain risk management traditionally focuses on managing physical third-party risks. But what the SolarWinds cyber-attack revealed is the catastrophic havoc fourth and fifth parties can also wreak in the often-ignored cloud supply chain.
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ArticleAssessing 2020: Lessons learned for the financial crime landscape
This year has been one most of us would like to forget. As we look toward 2021, nevertheless, it is worth considering lessons learned over the last 12 months and (where possible) drawing on any positives that have come to light regarding the financial crime landscape.