When educating a younger audience (or any audience in the world of cybersecurity), remember everything in cybersecurity begins and ends with the understanding that if you have data, then you have cyber risk. If your audience truly does not believe their data is at risk, your lesson will fall on [...]
According to a recent study, the problem with the Cybersecurity skills gap is only getting worse. 2014: 23 percent of respondents claimed their organization had a problematic shortage of cybersecurity skills 2015: 25 percent of respondents claimed their organization had a problematic shortage of cybersecurity skills 2016: 46 percent of [...]
GDPR Notification of a personal data breach - Not later than 72 hours after having become aware, notify the personal data breach to the supervisory authority. Here’s what you’ll need to include: describe the nature of the personal data breach including where possible, the categories and approximate number of data [...]
Personal information of thousands of FedEx customers worldwide was exposed on the web due to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage server which was carelessly NOT secured with a password. Many data breaches don’t involve sophisticated hackers – just a question of someone being careless. Despite all of the [...]
If a hacker reaches out to us pretending to be someone we know or disguises a fake website to look like a legitimate one, and we willfully give them our information, passwords, gift cards, money and so on, our technology will have a hard time protecting us. Regardless of the [...]
All cybercrime begins and ends with what the cybercriminal is targeting: your sensitive information. One of the best tips for cybersecurity awareness is to make sure you are aware of what information of yours is sensitive and remain especially careful with where you put it and who you allow to [...]
In the last week alone there have been at least seven reported data breaches. These breaches are happening at companies like Delta, Best Buy, Panera, and many others. Between January 2005 and March 2018, there have been over 8,800 breaches, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. Combined those breaches [...]
Interesting stat number 1: A study by Ponemon in February of 2018 found that 80 percent of cybersecurity and IT experts anticipate a catastrophic data breach at their companies by 2021. Interesting stat number 2: According to the Ponemon Institute, the average time for breach detection is 191 days, i.e. [...]
Here is a quick lesson on how to run your organizations cybersecurity starting with the two most important laws of cybersecurity. Law No. 1: If There Is a Vulnerability, It Will Be Exploited Law No. 2: Everything Is Vulnerable in Some Way No matter what the concerns or problems are [...]
And so it begins. Effective November 1st in Canada, breach readiness takes on a whole new meaning. New regulations regarding mandatory notification, reporting and record keeping of privacy breaches under Canada’s federal data protection law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) come into effect. In addition to [...]