We are inundated with constant headlines Thousands and sometimes millions of records stolen by hackers(the bad guys). In fact the worst breaches are health records as in this article at Forbes. “The number of annual health data breaches increased 70% to 344 over the past seven years, with 75% of the breached, lost, or stolen … Read more
I.e. Do we need to make a major research effort to solve all(or most) Cybersecurity problems? Why? Because mistakes keep happening: And these are not small mistakes – they may shift our world underneath us… As California considers more legislation and Breach reporting requirements, other states may also look into this issue. At Databreachtoday.com there … Read more
If you accept credit cards you need PCI compliance If you have health data then you need HIPAA compliance. A financial company gets many pieces of compliance which depends on what types of financial instruments you sell. You may need other types of compliance. Unfortunately PCI compliance does not require a backup of your critical … Read more
Are you ready for new year surprises? Why is it that 60% of businesses fail after a major Cyber attack? Spam Email – most attacks come in through well crafted emails (spear phishing) Social Engineering – An attacker can use 1 and 4 to call you to craft a sneaky method to get on your … Read more
The obvious angle(in 2018) is to applaud Amazon and chide Sears for the massive technological progress and stagnation respectively. Sure Sears did well in it’s day by pioneering catalogs and selling many things one does not think about right out of the catalog(houses and cars). But somehow when the internet technology came into being they … Read more
