Anytime you are taking on a complicated and crucially important corporate project with multiple layers, multiple points of contact, competing priorities and deadlines; you are most likely going to want to work with a project manager. Someone that can manage things as efficiently as possibly, allowing you to achieve the [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Imagine if you lived in the most secure house in the world, with an impenetrable door and an impenetrable lock on that door. Your incredibly impenetrable house will do you little good if the criminal on the other end of that door tricks you into willfully opening the door every [...]
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 [...]
Medical information can be worth ten times more than credit card numbers on the dark web. Cyber criminals can use this data to create fake IDs to buy medical equipment or drugs or combine a patient number with a false provider number and file fictional claims with insurers. Consumers often [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]