IT Governance

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A recent freedom of information request by chartered accountants UHY Hacker Young reveals a worrying rise in reported data breaches across the UK education sector. The government’s Cyber Essentials scheme helps organisations guard against the most common cyber threats and demonstrate commitment to cyber security.

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Collibra

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The federal government is no exception. Today’s citizens, accustomed to the speed and personalization of digital experiences, expect no less from their government. For the federal government to modernize and meet the needs of the contemporary citizen, it must tap into the vast reservoirs of data at its disposal.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The benefits of partnering with us, and our partner-exclusive event IT Governance launched its partner programme in 2017, which now includes more than 400 organisations. And why should organisations consider partnering with IT Governance? What is it that makes IT Governance special? What else can partners expect from the event?

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has arguably affected the education sector more than any other, with schools, colleges and universities around the globe having been forced to close their doors and deliver classes remotely. The most common threat that the education sector faces are downloaders, adware and Trojan horses. Adware and malware.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 21, 2021

On 22 September 2021, the UK Government (the “ Government ”) published its Artificial Intelligence (“ AI ”) strategy. The paper outlines the Government’s plan to make Britain a “global superpower” in the AI arena, and sets out an agenda to build the most “pro-innovation regulatory environment in the world”.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 2, 2018

To support the wider education sector with data protection and cyber security, we are launching a sector specific email newsletter and blog series. To sign-up, send us ideas of what you would like us to cover or questions for us to answer, please leave complete this form and choose education as your sector. How to sign up.

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Collibra

AUGUST 16, 2023

This question is even more difficult to answer when talking about data governance. Luckily, this blog will outline some best practices to help you get started. The carrot versus the stick In most cases, the value of data governance isn’t always visible to the end-users. Read about why in my previous blog post here.

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Collibra

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As organizations increasingly embrace AI, understanding and implementing effective enterprise AI governance is becoming more and more critical to sustaining AI success and mitigating risk. Today, AI-driven organizations can leverage AI governance to mitigate risk, adhere to legal requirements and protect privacy.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2022

Fundamentally, cybersecurity professionals identify weaknesses and design systems and processes to protect any organization — government agencies, private companies — from cyberattacks. Many government and non-profit organizations like VetJobs and VetsinTech are doing just this. He is the author of The Shellcoder’s Handbook.

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eDiscovery Daily

JULY 2, 2024

When it comes to ensuring that data is preserved and available for litigation, investigations, or government inquiries, it all starts with establishing and codifying clear data governance policies and procedures. The post Efficient Text and Chat Data Discovery Starts with Information Governance (IG) appeared first on CloudNine.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Poorly educated employees fall for the criminals’ scam, opening the attachment contained in the email only to unleash ransomware on their systems. If you want to prevent that from happening, you must commit to a culture of cyber security staff awareness and educate your employees on the threats they face.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Click to enlarge. PEACE HOSTING?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

These Russian cyber actors are government organizations and include other parties who take their orders from the Russian military or intelligence organizations – while not technically under government control. Educate your employees on threats and risks such as phishing and malware. Related: Cyber espionage is in a Golden Age.

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Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

We have historical experiences and references to revisit in discerning what the government can do to nurture our “Analytics Revolution.” Notably, the Industrial Revolution, holds many lessons regarding the consequences of late and/or confusing government involvement and guidance (see Figure 1). Industrial Revolution Learnings.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

CISA published an advisory on China-linked groups targeting government agencies by exploiting flaws in Microsoft Exchange, Citrix, Pulse, and F5 systems. Chinese state-sponsored hackers have probed US government networks looking for vulnerable networking devices that could be compromised with exploits for recently disclosed vulnerabilities.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2021

“A few hours ago, we lost access to the public part of our infrastructure,” the message continues, explaining the outage affected its victim shaming blog where stolen data is published from victims who refuse to pay a ransom. Affiliates also will be required to get approval before infecting victims.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

The success of digital exploitation can be attributed to several factors, including difficulty in keeping up with the latest security measures, increased reliance on technology and the internet, and a general lack of awareness and education about the dangers of the internet.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 7, 2023

The adoption of mutually trusted technology can assist businesses, customers, partners and government authorities in verifying the existence, authenticity and integrity of interactions among parties. It can simplify the management of licenses, certificates, educational records and property ownership rights for government organizations.

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IG Guru

MARCH 21, 2022

The post ISC2 Announces Changes to the CISSP Exam via their Blog appeared first on IG GURU. Check out the post here.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll discuss: Our current perimeter defense; The need to shift to a data-centric security approach; and, The need to educate the public to strengthen our critical infrastructure security posture. For more information about Thales eSecurity’s federal government security solutions, visit here. Perimeter Defense.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

CERT-UA warns of a spear-phishing campaign conducted by APT28 group targeting Ukrainian government bodies with fake ‘Windows Update’ guides. Russia-linked APT28 group is targeting Ukrainian government bodies with fake ‘Windows Update’ guides, Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warns.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 17, 2018

One of IT Governance’s governance and risk management consultants, Andrew Pattison, was interviewed by GBC News last week about the most common types of cyber threats after delivering IT Governance’s three-day training course on “Effective Protection against Cyber crime”.

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IT Governance

JULY 25, 2024

This blog explains what the PCI DSS requirements are for staff awareness training, to whom they apply and how to prove compliance. Sub-requirement 12.6, “security awareness education is an ongoing activity”, demands that you: Implement a formal security awareness programme. We first published a version of this blog in December 2014.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

German government warns that technology to regulate power consumption in Huawei network appliances could be used for sabotage purposes. government officials as well as European security authorities, which have warned of the risks associated with Chinese telecoms equipment.” The activity will be completed in the coming months.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

The group targeted multiple sectors, including government, defense, energy, transportation/logistics, education, and humanitarian organizations. Google TAG also reported the malware-based attacks conducted by the group behind Cuba ransomware to distribute RomCom RAT in the networks of the Ukrainian government and military.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

Proofpoint researchers recently reported that a Russian hacking group, tracked as Winter Vivern (aka TA473), has been actively exploiting vulnerabilities ( CVE-2022-27926 ) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats. reads the post published by Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2023

During the last week, private and government organizations in Israel were hit by massive cyber attacks that were part of the #OPIsrael campaign launched by hacktivists against Israeli critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

In recent years, the researchers observed the group expanding its operations to include financial institutions and government entities. This domain has been hosted on eight other IPs throughout its history, none of these IPs were directly affiliated with the South African government. saspecialforces.co[.]za za resolved to 196.216.136[.]139.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2019

Many in the security community leaped to his defense at the time, noting that the FBI’s case appeared flimsy and that Hutchins had worked tirelessly through his blog to expose cybercriminals and their malicious tools. “Once t[h]ings settle down I plan to focus on educational blog posts and livestreams again.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

made electronics on behalf of the Russian government and military. The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. manufacturers on behalf of Russian end-users, including defense contractors and other Russian government agencies.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Costa Rican government declared a national emergency , after attackers crippled govenrment systems and demanded $20 million to restore them go normal. The Glenn County Office of Education in California suffered an attack limiting access to its own network.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to promote inherently insecure, nascent Internet technology to be the world’s primary global information infrastructure for all the world’s communications, content, and commerce. Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to de facto nationally abdicate governing online.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

In the last couple of years, other Israeli surveillance firms, like NSO Group and Candiru , made the headlines because their spyware was used by totalitarian regimes to spy on journalists, dissidents, and government opposition.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

“In October 2022, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) disrupted a campaign from HOODOO, a Chinese government-backed attacker also known as APT41, that targeted a Taiwanese media organization by sending phishing emails that contained links to a passwordprotected file hosted in Drive.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2023

government along with peers in Germany and Austria. . “Through the illegal operation of his websites, the defendant made at least $18 million in bitcoin (as well as an unknown amount through other payment systems), which he used to purchase a Ferrari, among other luxury items.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

According to the company, they have over 600,000 Cameras and 50,000 Recorders installed all over the world in multiple sectors such as Banking, Retail, Government, etc. ” reads the advisory published by Fortinet.

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erwin

JULY 22, 2020

There’s no doubt E.ON, based in Essen, Germany, has established one of the most comprehensive and successful data governance programs in modern business. For E.ON, data governance is not just about data management but also about using information to increase efficiencies. The business needs to have a role in the justification.

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