The high court will decide if websites, search engines and others that amass personal information from public sources could be sued for publishing inaccurate information, even if the errors do not cause actual harm.
Emerging cybersecurity risks are now banking institutions' top concern, says the ABA's Heather Wyson-Constantine. What are institutions' contractual protections in the wake of a third-party data breach?
Security expert Mike Canavan of Kaspersky Lab North America pinpoints several critical security steps that organizations can take to help reduce the likelihood they'll become a victim of a hacking attack.
Our world has been radically transformed by digital technology - smart phones, tablets, and web-enabled devices have altered our daily lives, including the way we do commerce and manage our finances. At the same time, technology has enabled a new generation of criminals to gain access to information...
The increasing use of cloud services and Big Data projects is causing major security concerns. This version of the Insider Threat Report focuses on the increasing use of all forms of cloud technology, and provides information about the security and data protection issues that need to be addressed. Increased risk,...
97% of Financial Services respondents report being somewhat or more vulnerable to insider threats. This Research Brief highlights the results collected online by Harris Poll from 102 IT decision makers in U.S. financial services enterprises in the Fall of 2014. U.S. results are compared, where applicable, to findings...
Healthcare data (Personal Health Information [PHI] and other personal data held by healthcare organizations) has become one of the most desirable commodities for sale on "black" Internet sites, and for good reason. Healthcare records typically contain enough detail to not only apply for credit cards or loans, but can...
In the past, insider threats resulted mainly from employees with access to financial data or other secret and sensitive information. That's no longer the case today. Today, employees with legitimate access, service providers or contractors that maintain infrastructure and privileged users are all possible actors, and...
In the past few years, Vormetric has been busy showing the world that it's no longer just your father's file and database encryption vendor. Since the launch of its Vormetric Data Security platform strategy in early 2014, the company has been hard at work extending the platform's capabilities with new features and...
See the startling results of meticulous analysis of hundreds of real-life insider attacks from the team at Carnegie Mellon University, where the CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) function was created. The analysis results clearly indicate that, contrary to the majority of headlines, stealthy insiders pose a huge...
Privacy advocates in the Senate have introduced a national data breach notification bill that would allow states to keep their own laws if they provide more stringent reporting and privacy protections than offered by the federal government.
The House Judiciary Committee, in passing a tailored bill to end the NSA's bulk collection program of phone records, rejected amendments to expand privacy reforms to other government surveillance initiatives.
Companies are increasingly reliant on storing sensitive data in cloud storage, which could be vulnerable to security threats and violate compliance requirements. At the same time, data breaches continue to grow more prevalent and costly. The Vormetric Cloud Encryption Gateway is a scalable solution that provides...
With big data analytics growing in popularity, many organizations have turned to MongoDB, which optimizes performance. Along with traditional sources of data, such as transactional systems and data warehouses, enterprises can now collect and leverage data from logs, social media interactions, sensors, and other...
Should you encrypt everything? There has never been more options for encrypting data across applications, databases, servers, storage, and the entire datacenter (and the cloud). This report cuts through the confusion to help you pick the best encryption options for your projects. The focus is on encrypting in the...
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