Software integrations, open APIs, and data sharing between different businesses are a staple of the modern digital organization. Unfortunately, as organizations increase their digital footprint across numerous third-party and fourth-party relationships, their risk of downstream data breaches multiplies. These ripple...
Nearly four months after Capital One revealed a massive data breach, Michael Johnson, the bank's CISO, is being moved into an outside advisory role, and the company is scouting for a new security leader, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Federal prosecutors have charged a Long Island company, along with seven of its employees, with selling vulnerability-laden Chinese technology to the U.S. military and other agencies for a decade and passing the gear off as American made.
Two Democratic members of the U.S. House have proposed a national privacy law that calls for the formation of a new federal agency to enforce the privacy rights that it defines.
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden is pushing the Federal Communications Commission to ensure that wireless carriers build new security measures, such as encryption and authentication, into 5G networks as they're rolled out over the next several years.
The one factor with the biggest impact on any organization's digital transformation efforts - regardless of the organization's size or sector - is the ability to change its privacy, cybersecurity and IT culture, says Stephen Owen, CISO of Bourne Leisure Group.
At this year's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, the cybersecurity message was clear: World leaders see it as essential for fixing the failures associated with past industrial revolutions as well as safeguarding future digital transformation, says Fortinet's Alain Sanchez.
Employees view the ability to bring their own devices into their workplace life as a prerequisite for any job, which complicates organizations' identity management and cybersecurity efforts, says Barry McMahon of LastPass.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report offers an analysis of how Twitter allegedly was used to spy on critics of the Saudi Arabian government. Also featured: A preview of the new NIST Privacy Framework and an update on business email compromise attacks.
Sprawling computing environments - from cloud to containers to serverless - are posing challenges in maintaining visibility and determining if data is secure, says Mike Adler of RSA.
63% of data breaches are caused by third-party, yet most organizations treat their vendors like internal employees when it comes to remote access. Because of this, the average organization spends endless hours and resources investigating incidents and pulling together reports, which only compounds the problem. Data...
A Trend Micro employee stole and then sold contact information for 68,000 of the company's consumer subscribers, which led to a raft of unsolicited tech support scam calls, the company says. The employee has been fired. The incident highlights the risk of insider threats.
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged three men with perpetrating a campaign to infiltrate Twitter and spy on critics of the Saudi government. Two of the suspects formerly worked for Twitter, allegedly feeding details to Saudi handlers that could be used to identify and locate critics of the Saudi regime.
Facebook has revealed that, once again, it allowed third-party app developers to wrongfully gain access to its customers' private data. The company changed access for about 100 developers after the problem was discovered.
Organizations should develop a comprehensive strategy for managing third-party security risks and avoid over-reliance on any one tool, such as vendor security risk assessment, monitoring or ratings services, says analyst Jie Zhang of Gartner.
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