Sentences with phrase «other cyber security»

It uses a «smart contract» protocol that tracks and verifies the credibility of transactions on the blockchain database to avoid fraud, scams and other cyber security related issues.

In this episode of Digital Detectives, Sprint's Joe Hamblin joins hosts Sharon Nelson and John Simek to discuss Smishing and other cyber security threats.

The legal sector has become such an obvious and easy target for cyber criminals in part due to the amount of files — from PDFs to Word documents and Excel spreadsheets to saved email trails — which can be sent without appropriate anti-malware programmes and other cyber security resilience tactics in place.

Not exact matches

Leading RegTech specialist Harry Toukalas will be revealing how his firm's AI tool can predict misconduct in financial services.This ground - breaking technology developed in conjunction with MIT analyses email communication patterns and psycholinguistic analysis of email content to flag up issues such as mis - selling, cyber security and fraud.The Blackhall & Pearl tool already being used around the world by more than 40 organisations is eight times faster than other methods.

«When we see malicious cyber activity, whether it be from the Kremlin or other malicious nation - state actors, we are going to push back,» said Rob Joyce, the White House cyber security coordinator.

Despite acrimonious relations between Russia and the United States in recent years, experts on cyber security in both countries say their law enforcement agencies and private firms had been working together more closely behind the scenes to fight financial fraud and other crimes committed online.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Some security experts said the CIA's possible use of tools from other spy agencies raised the risk of false attribution for targeted cyber attacks by the U.S. intelligence agency.

Millennials are sensitive to cyber security issues and identity fraud, and 64 percent of millennials believe that gift cards are safer to use online than any other digital payment method.

Swedish - American cyber security firm Recorded Future said they have «a high degree of certainty» that the arrested Belarussian is «Ar3s», a prominent hacker in the Russian speaking cybercrime underground since 2004, who the firm has identified as the creator of the Andromeda botnet, among other hacking tools.

Joyce said at a conference last month that U.S. officials were trying to persuade European regulators to allow a carve out in the law for security researchers to continue collecting data pertinent to data breaches or other cyber crime investigations.

Companies and startups from a wide variety of industries including autonomous, automotive technologies, water - tech, UAV, safe - city, social, mobile, cyber security, IoT, healthcare, smart - city, energy and security, amongst others.

When valuable intellectual property, particularly trade secrets, is stolen through cyber espionage or other means, it poses a serious economic security problem for technology companies and hurts the U.S. innovation economy.

Ghana and the United States government have signed a deal to improve Ghana's cyber security, border management and other key security infrastructure in the country.

In other words, she's a cyber security expert, so while the country is constantly under cyber attack (literally everyday), she's been busy safeguarding the nation from cyber terrorists while Congressman Meeks chatted with the late Hugo Chavez.

A self - described «email prankster» in the UK fooled a number of White House officials into thinking he was other officials, including an episode where he convinced the White House official tasked with cyber security that he was Jared Kushner and received that official's private email address unsolicited.

The governor also cited Russian attempts to hack other states» voting systems in 2016 as a reason to strengthen cyber security at polling places.

NITDA ISSUES GUIDANCE ON COMBATING CYBER SECURITY THREATS The management of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) would like to bring to the attention of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), other government establishments, the organised private sector and the general public of potential cyber-attacks likely to be experienced this year as well -LSB-...]

Responsibilities include: public sector efficiency and reform, government transparency, civil contingencies, cyber security and UK statistics, among others

With growing risks to the nation's electrical grid from natural disasters and as a potential target for malicious attacks, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should work closely with utility operators and other stakeholders to improve cyber and physical security and resilience, says a new congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MSecurity (DHS) should work closely with utility operators and other stakeholders to improve cyber and physical security and resilience, says a new congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Msecurity and resilience, says a new congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Other NIST programs that got a favorable nod: green manufacturing (+ $ 10 million), cyber security (+ $ 10 million), disaster - resilient buildings (+ $ 5 million), and measurement and standards for manufacturing biologics, or cell - derived drugs (+ $ 10 million).

At Missouri S&T, McMillin and other researchers are working to improve cyber security with an emphasis on safeguarding the nation's infrastructure while educating students in this field through its National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.

«What this means is that as vehicles become more and more connected and autonomous, with the ability to communicate to other vehicles and infrastructure through wireless networks, the threat of cyber attack increases putting people's safety and security at risk.»

MeDICi (Middleware for Data Intensive Computing) and other tools developed by Gorton and his team form the foundation for building distributed, high - performance, data - intensive computing applications in a range of application areas including bioinformatics, cyber security, and atmospheric sciences.

He also worked closely with the Department of Energy on its R&D programs and other areas like cyber security and advanced reactor deployment.

Talks on the day will be given by CEO and founder of SeekingArrangement Brandon Wade, «sugar expert» Clover Pittilla and cyber security consultant Via Singh, among others.

A multi-billion research investment strategy announced by the Federal Government on 15 May aims to tackle cancer, boost farm crops and cyber security and effect better management of the Great Barrier Reef, among other planned benefits.

With Agylia, you can deliver your compliance, induction, leadership, cyber security or other digital learning programmes complete with mobile learning, microlearning, social learning and gamification.

Attendees will obtain information about PC and mobile security, permanence of digital content, public databases and digital transparency, preventing abuse of current and future apps, and many other current and future cyber issues.

Ron heads an office of 16, including 11 attorneys and 5 other professionals, providing advice on a broad range of issues related to the Department's emergency response activities, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), privacy law, environmental law, aviation economic issues, cyber security, records management, and other matters.

Mr. Ford's current duties include representing DOCR's initiatives in the DOT Chief Information Officer and Chief Financial Officer communities; serving as the key official and architect for the organization's information technology, procurement, human capital, budget, accounting, facilities management, record management, physical and cyber security, and other business programs; advising the Director and Deputy Director on critical mission related matters and program / process improvement possibilities; ensuring continuity of operations along with the delivery of secure, timely, accurate, and quality services and products; and overseeing DOCR's annual $ 10M budget formulation, execution, and justification processes.

Jon joined DOT in September 2009 as Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Operations, where he helped manage a group of 15 professionals who provided advice on a broad range of issues related to DOT's emergency response activities, the Freedom of Information Act, privacy law, environmental law, aviation economic issues, security (including cyber security) and other matters.

To answer your question, as with other crosscutting risks such as cyber security and biological threats, no federal agency or entity is well positioned to integrate the risk management challenge.

Finally, new technologies and the ability of companies to operate globally and expand quickly, but not necessarily in accord with local law, can create issues including reliance on sales where not operating legally, lack of attention to consumer or other laws even where properly registered, lack of local licensing, poor attention to data protection; and again, security and cyber security issues or lack of the right personnel in the buyer and / or seller to deal with these issues if the company is moving internationally but too quickly.

The information security practices detailed in the Privacy Commissioner's Report and the FTC's Stipulated Order are consistent with cyber risk management guidance previously issued by privacy commissioners, regulators and self - regulatory organizations, and with information security practices detailed in regulatory reports and lawsuit settlements relating to other data security breaches.

The framework allows organizations — regardless of size, degree of cyber risk, or cybersecurity sophistication — to apply the principles and best practices of risk management to improve the security and resilience of critical infrastructure (as well as other information systems).

Edward Snowden may have exposed countless secrets about the way governments are conducting cyber espionage on their own citizens and each other, but even he couldn't have been aware that as the National Security Agency / Prism scandal broke this past summer, Aaron Shull was quietly figuring out where the legal boundaries of online spying should lie.

A lot of our clients right now are Fortune 500 bigger companies, but the work that we do for them is more targeted towards cyber security, or other things like that.

Womble Carlyle's Financial Institutions Team provides legal counsel to financial institutions nationwide, on among other things, capital raising, securities law compliance, mergers and acquisitions, cross-industry transactions, regulatory compliance, financial privacy, vendor contract review, cyber security and FinTech matters.

Additionally, recognizing that a cyber - or privacy - related development can expand to encompass a number of other significant legal issues, our group works hand - in - glove with attorneys in our White Collar Defense, Regulatory and Investigations, Securities Litigation, Complex Commercial Litigation, Business Finance & Restructuring and Employment Litigation practices, among others, to address subsequent risks such as government or regulatory inquiries, shareholder, consumer, or employee class action litigation, trade secrets theft, funding or financial issues, and disputes with vendors, service providers and other third parties.

But while there are doubtless many other aspects of cyber security that I will need to investigate further, my awareness is growing, and my behaviours are evolving.

We work with other industry groups to make sure that our cyber security is good but also that our customers feel safe that their data is well protected.

For instance, compliance teams respond to regulatory challenges, cyber security functions manage the systems and tools that protect data, while other aspects of data and information management sit elsewhere.

The discussion will focus on what can (and already has) been done by law firms to successfully fight possible cyber attacks and other digital security issues.

Given the huge volume of medical, financial and other sensitive information they hold, it is critical that insurers have closely monitored, highly effective cyber security frameworks in place.»

«To be clear, the CFTC does not regulate the dozens of virtual currency trading platforms here and abroad,» Giancarlo said, clarifying that the CFTC can't require cyber protections, platform safeguards and other things that consumers might expect from traditional securities.

In particular, Cisco's Ransomware Defense includes advanced email security, endpoint protection, and malicious internet site blocking which can protect an organization against malware, ransomware and other cyber threats.

In an interview with Reuters, Aon's chief exec Jason Hogg explained why this cyber security solution is different from others.

Businesses today often address cyber security in a siloed fashion, he said, with technology staff, legal and other departments all playing separate roles.

Using this method, cyber criminals can phish out your login credentials and other information such as card details, social security number, phone numbers and more for identity theft.