10 years ago a bulk of cybersecurity attacks focused on defeating cyber infrastructure like firewalls, routers and anti-virus software. But over the last decade, the target of attacks shifted. People turned out to be more vulnerable than hardware or software. Every employee, from the CEO to a new hire, is [...]
A joint survey from BCG and MIT’s Sloan Management Review found that leaders in most industries believe AI technology will have a significant impact during the next five years but is AI right for your organization? Amara’s law states that “we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in [...]
The cost of a data breach can be difficult to estimate, but it is far from impossible. If you take into consideration the corporate context, both internal and external factors, the nature and number of records involved in the leak, the ability to promptly detect incidents and leave room for [...]
Do your employees have breach fatigue? Big breaches make the headlines, so when the average employee comes across regular news of large organizations suffering a data breach, they often struggle to believe that they themselves can help defend against such an attack. Placing this alongside NIST's findings that employees often [...]
Cyber resilience strongly depends on access to real-time threat identification and analysis. Understanding the specific nature of a threat allows organizations to identify and address vulnerabilities in business operations. To ensure your systems and staff are up to date on the tactics and methods cyber criminals use, you need access [...]
Nearly 75% of Organizations in 5 Countries Fail in Cyber Security Readiness, this according to a study commissioned by specialist insurer Hiscox. Depending on your roles and responsibilities, this may bring up a few good questions. Would my organization fall into that 75%? What would the cost of a data [...]
“We don’t have the same risks as the big guys, who would come after us?” Even in this day and age, I still hear that way too often. If you have data, then you have cyber risk. However, so many people I talk to remain in denial about cyber exposure. [...]
GDPR is about to make your breach even more expensive! Security breaches are already costly; not just financially, but in terms of brand damage, customer dissatisfaction and downtime. For companies that do business with residents of the European Union (EU), the financial fallout from a security breach is about to [...]
Those of us even remotely familiar with cybersecurity strategies understand that it’s not about making sure you are never breached but rather knowing how to detect and respond in the best way possible. When a breach or cyber incident occurs – an organization can face serious ramifications for failing to [...]
It’s hard to deny that we live in a digital world. From doing business to socializing and pretty much everything in-between, we share information in the form of digital content. That information gets bought, sold and traded everyday. In the digital world we live in, information is the new currency. [...]