The latest in our series of comments on security, Chris Oakley, managing principal security consultant at Nettitude gives us an insight into the recent spear - phishing and black box security tests the company has run on clients — gaining access to an alarming amount of
sensitive company data, including intellectual property, employee information and company contracts — as well as outlining what should have been done differently.
SMB owners should offer trainings to educate employees on the types of emails, websites and behaviors to avoid while using company - owned devices or accessing
sensitive company data.
Most institutions frown on this sort of thing because they think «bring your own tech» is inherently insecure — that employees will lose their gadget loaded with
sensitive company data — yet Kundra believes the reverse is true.
Not exact matches
In the wake of the Target security breach, where up to 70 million customers» credit and debit card details were targeted by fraudsters, more and more businesses are looking to strengthen their IT infrastructure and protect their customers,
sensitive data and wider
company assets in the process.
Again, Facebook makes the majority of its revenue from collecting user
data to sell targeted ads, a nugget that may give
companies pause before deciding to share
sensitive documents on the platform.
Understand what is your
company's
sensitive data.
The move comes as almost 30 states have considered imposing privacy rules on Internet service providers similar to the now - revoked federal rules, which, among other mandates, required that
companies get permission from customers before collecting
sensitive data.
And while 30 percent of all cases are due to worker negligence like delivering
sensitive information to the wrong recipient or the insecure disposal of personal and medical
data, roughly 20 percent are considered insider misuse events, where employees could be stealing and / or profiting from
company - owned or protected information.
One of the biggest hacking threats to
companies and to customers»
sensitive data comes from a surprising source without a computer's help.
The
company's shares fell nearly 19 percent in after - market trading as investors reacted to possible consequences of the exposure of
sensitive data of nearly half of the U.S. population.
She recommends
companies institute a clean desk policy (ensuring that workers file away papers containing customer
data before they leave their desk), implement inactivity time outs for any tech devices, and switch to an e-faxing system, which eliminates the exposure of
sensitive patient
data on paper that's piled up around traditional fax machines.
The
companies that do have proper security measures will be encrypting all your
sensitive data — they convert information into a complex code that's difficult to decipher — but for privacy experts, that's not enough.
But in reality, a bigger danger to many
companies and to customers»
sensitive data comes from seemingly benign faces inside the same
companies that are trying to keep hackers out: a loan officer tasked with handling customers» e-mail, an attendant at a nursing home, a unit coordinator for the main operating room at a well - regarded city hospital.
Since any call center is a clearinghouse for both customer and
company data — some of it
sensitive — you should make sure you have an effective security protocol in place; one that is both flexible and that is continually updated.
If your
company monitors
data on a «large scale» and as a regular part of its «core business,» or processes
sensitive data on a «large scale,» you need a DPO in place.
As more
sensitive data inevitably moves to the cloud, and that
data is managed by private entities (think: Dropbox, Box, etc.), tech
companies must begin thinking about how to approach transparency in an era of FISA and other government - related surveillance requests.
The hack of Uber which compromised the
sensitive data of 50 million customers and drivers, and the attack on Tesla's servers by cryptominers are two prime examples of how easy it is to infiltrate
companies through their cloud services layer.
Companies have been awaiting the release of Azure Stack so they can run some of Microsoft's cloud technology within their own
data centers, thus letting them keep
sensitive data or computing tasks within their own infrastructure.
«If you're entrusting critical business operations and
sensitive data to these
companies, it's important to include security in the evaluation process and fully understand what sort of recourse is available should the service fail.»
Before a
company so much as transfers a file, managers need a
data - security plan to chart how they'll handle
sensitive information, security experts say.
To do it, they recommend that
companies create a
data - security policy, use software or hardware appropriate to a particular situation and require any outside party that's privy to
sensitive company information to sign a non-disclosure or other types of contracts.
Concerns surrounding economically
sensitive «big
data» gleaned from user transactions on Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's businesses may delay the
company's planned U.S. listing, banking sources told CNBC this past week, leading some to speculate that Beijing may even exert pressure on the
company to list in Hong Kong.
We are at the liberty of these
companies housing our
sensitive data to adequately protect this information.»
While the gathering of such
sensitive financial
data is sure to have privacy implications, it also represents a gold mine for a
company that deals primarily in information.
Training yourself and employees on how to recognize these malicious emails is a must for
companies to prevent
sensitive data loss.
The information did not include highly
sensitive information like Social Security numbers, and much of it was publicly available voter - registration
data provided by state government officials, a
company spokesman told Business Insider on Tuesday.
Reports that the social network shared
sensitive health and sexual
data with outside
companies set off a backlash.
Privacy advocates, however, questioned whether it was wise for a
company that had recently faced a public loss of trust over its handling of people's
data to enter the
sensitive world of dating preferences.
Those
data centers are kept highly secure using heat -
sensitive cameras and biometric authentication, and
companies believed the
data flowing among centers was secure.
If GDPR has a silver lining for Facebook — and a privacy regime which finally has teeth that can bite is not something you'd imagine the
company would welcome — it's that it can spin steps it's having to make to comply with EU regulations as an alacritous and fine - grained response to a US political
data scandal and try to generate the impression it's hyper
sensitive to (now highly politicized)
data privacy concerns.
Avid Life Media announced on Friday that CEO Noel Biderman, who founded the website in 2001, had left the
company with immediate effect, the latest sign of the wrenching impact on the
company of the attack that led to the disclosure of
sensitive data about millions of clients.
In summer 2016, for example, a major T&C s change sought to link WhatsApp users» accounts with their Facebook profiles (and thus with all the
data Facebook holds on them)-- as well as sharing
sensitive stuff like your last seen status, your address book, your BFFs in Whatsapp and all sorts of metadata with Zuck's «family» of
companies.
Last year,
sensitive personal
data from 31M + users of one third - party keyboard, AI.type, leaked online after the
company had failed to properly secure its database server, as one illustrative example of the potential risks.
The risk to personal
data is bad enough, but when employees use their iPads and Androids to play games and read novels on nights and weekends and process
sensitive business
data during the day... it poses serious security risks that
companies only now are beginning to address.
«It is very odd to see Uber as the only app (I checked tens of thousands of other apps using my
company's internal
data set derived from the App Store) besides Apple's own apps granted access to this
sensitive entitlement,» Strafach said in an email.
It seems like every quarter there's a new story about how hackers breached a major
company's cyber-defenses and stole millions of pieces of highly
sensitive data.
Instead of the increased efficiency, enterprises have encountered impractically slow transaction volumes; instead of a transparent world with ultimate accountability,
companies holding
sensitive customer
data faced regulatory concerns.
Generally, cyber liability insurance provides protection when a tech
company experiences a loss or
data breach of
sensitive or private information.
«
Companies like Equifax that have stockpiled massive, insecure databases of Americans» most
sensitive personal
data must make security the top priority at every single stage,» Wyden said.
A whistleblower is accusing some key financial regulators of allowing
sensitive broker information to become readily accessible, even as industry watchdogs emphasized the need for
companies to protect client
data.
Because
company email can be privy to so much
sensitive data, it's important to know when emails are being sent, and where.
«Further, we can see no legal authority which allows the Met to breach the
Data Protection Act by passing on
sensitive, confidential information to as many as three external
companies.
The document — a
data - sharing agreement between Google - owned artificial intelligence
company DeepMind and the Royal Free NHS Trust — gives the clearest picture yet of what the
company is doing and what
sensitive data it now has access to.
The attackers also stole and posted pre-release movies and
sensitive, often embarrassing, emails and other
data taken from the
company.
The extramarital dating site was subject to a massive
data breach, with hackers accessing the personal information of over 37m users, along with
sensitive company information.
They have already posted a small sample of
sensitive data (since taken offline) stolen from Avid Life Media, the
company that owns AshleyMadison, along with other hookup sites Cougar Life and Established Men.
BUSINESS INSIDER - Aug 27 - This month, hackers of AshleyMadison.com began to leak internal
company data online, which also includes
sensitive documents and the emails of CEO Noel Biderman.
However, the importance of schools protecting their academic and pastoral
data is as vital as a
company protecting its commercially
sensitive information.
Though the mobile wind tunnels have fewer sensors and less
data - gathering capability than a traditional one, Ford says it still allows the
company to use
sensitive audio equipment to check cabin insulation close to where a car is built.
We do not target ads to you based on
sensitive health
data, though, where permitted by law, we do work with health and fitness
companies and may show you more relevant ads based on your perceived interest in these topics.