The pressure is on for all industries to upgrade their cyber-protection policies. New York is the first state to initiate a 180-day grace period for all financial services companies to upgrade both cyber policies and protection. As New York's new cyber mandates roll out, other states and industries will likely follow....
Too many organizations continue to address breach response from a reactive mode - having a crude disaster-recovery plan in place in case something "does" happen, rather than accepting that something "will" happen and proactively preparing for it. In this session, a panel of legal, technical and law-enforcement experts...
Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: FBI Director James Comey's revelation of a counterintelligence investigation of possible ties between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia's actions to influence the U.S. presidential election.
A bill introduced in the Senate would require publicly traded companies to disclose to regulators whether any board members have cybersecurity expertise.
Don't trust the internet of things to maintain common-sense boundaries - or your privacy - as evidenced by a lawsuit against "sensual lifestyle products" manufacturer We-Vibe, alleging that its products tracked customers' usage patterns, indexed by their email addresses.
Search giant Yahoo suffered two massive data breaches under the tenure of CEO Marissa Mayer. But when the company wraps up the sale of its primary businesses to Verizon for $4.5 billion, she's set to exit with an extra $23 million in compensation.
IRDAI's draft information and cybersecurity framework developed in collaboration with industry working groups is set to be finalized soon. The draft is fairly comprehensive and will set a serious tone for security at a board level, experts say.
Velocity of cloud adoption has increased in the past year, says Mark Hickman, COO at WinMagic, but security still remains a concern. He shares insight and recommendations for a better security posture in the clo
A look at the return of the Crypt0L0cker ransomware leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also, assuring the security of medical devices; and U.S. federal prosecutors drop charges against a child porn suspect rather than reveal the hacking technique used to ensnare him.
The U.S. government has opted to drop an indictment against a child pornography suspect rather than reveal the software exploit used to identify him. The case highlights how the use of legal hacking techniques by law enforcement agencies can create complications in court.
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, which will be enforced beginning in May 2018, will affect organizations throughout the world because it applies to any company that handles Europeans' personal data, says Fred Kost of HyTrust.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will lose her cash bonus after an independent investigation into security breaches at the search giant found that the company's senior executives and legal team failed to properly comprehend or investigate the severity of the attacks.
Leading the latest version of the ISMG Security Report: a look at how various sectors are moving away from checkbox compliance, instead taking proactive measures to secure their information assets. Also, big increase in e-commerce fraud and Yahoo's costly breach.
Responding to disruptive data breaches, dealing with Mirai botnets, hacking back and the need for enterprises to segment their backup environments were just some of the topics dominating this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco.
Amidst the increasing security chaos facing individuals and organizations, one of the dominant themes at this year's RSA Conference was the need for information security professionals to do more, bringing order to enterprise IT security as well as by influencing public policy.
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