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GUEST ESSAY: ‘Tis the season — to take proactive measures to improve data governance

The Last Watchdog

Practicing good data governance is easier than you think. About the essayist: Todd Feinman is president and CEO of Identity Finder , co-founding the company in 2001. As I said, breaches cannot be 100 percent preventable, but there are a lot of ways to be proactive. By knowing your risk exposure, you are half way there.

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Estonia sues Gemalto for 152M euros over flaws in citizen ID cards issued by the company

Security Affairs

“The vulnerabilities to hacker attacks found in government- issued ID cards supplied by the Franco-Dutch company marked an embarrassing setback for Estonia, which has billed itself as the world’s most digitalised “e-government”.” ” reported the Reuters. At the time, Estonia had issued 1.3

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Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have breached the Italian Revenue Agency

Security Affairs

The ransomware gang Lockbit claims to have hacked the Italian Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) and added the government agency to the list of victims reported on its dark web leak site. It has its own statute and specific regulations governing administration and accounting. 300 of 1999.

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Ross Anderson

Schneier on Security

It was well before 2001, when we created the Workshop on Economics and Information Security. He didn’t suffer fools in either government or the corporate world. Ross Anderson unexpectedly passed away Thursday night in, I believe, his home in Cambridge. I can’t remember when I first met Ross.

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Web application exposures continue do bedevil companies as digital transformation accelerates

The Last Watchdog

Related: Cyber spies feast on government shut down. As sure as the sun will rise in the morning, hackers will poke and prod at the web applications companies rely on – and find fresh weaknesses they can exploit. As this ‘digital transformation’ of commerce accelerates, the attack surface available to threat actors likewise is expanding.

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Implementing Information Management on SharePoint and Office365

AIIM

Since its humble beginnings in 2001, it has grown to nearly 200 million seats and is found in every industry sector. One of the key steps is to develop and implement effective SharePoint governance. It's hard to overestimate the impact of SharePoint on the information management market. So how can organizations address this?

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Rebecca B. Rankin: Early Advocate for Public Access to Government Information

Archives Blogs

When budget cuts forced her to curtail the traditional publications used for publicity and outreach, Rankin took the pioneering step of employing radio to communicate with prospective customers in the local government and their constituents. You can afford to give the government machinery more attention and study.’ ’ [1].