Data Breach Today
APRIL 11, 2018
Second Congressional Hearing Probes Privacy Issues At a U.S. House hearing Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company would eventually comply worldwide with the European Union's tough privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation.
IT Governance
APRIL 11, 2018
Data breaches and cyber attacks are regularly in the headlines, so it will come as no surprise that all organisations are vulnerable to attack. Falling victim can result in financial loss, regulatory penalties, business disruption and reputational damage. The majority of cyber attacks are automated and indiscriminate, exploiting known vulnerabilities rather than targeting specific organisations.
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IT Governance
APRIL 24, 2018
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will soon be in effect, but many organisations are still working towards compliance. One part of the Regulation tripping people up is Article 32: Security of processing. It describes the technical and organisational measures that organisations should have in place, but it’s densely written and uses unfamiliar terms: Taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as we
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 10, 2018
A Facebook permission allowed an app to read messages between 1,500 Facebook users and their friends until October 2015—data that Cambridge Analytica could have accessed.
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IT Governance
APRIL 18, 2018
An integral part of your EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance project is producing appropriate documentation, which includes a personal data breach notification procedure. If you’re just beginning your GDPR project, it’s unlikely that you’ll be fully compliant by 25 May 2018, when the Regulation is enforced. However, in our recent blog, GDPR priorities in the lead up to May , we suggested that your organisation should prioritise creating incident response and breach reporting
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The Schedule
APRIL 30, 2018
[Note: This was a forum post to the Records Management Section list on SAA’s site that got a little out of hand. Rather than clog everyone’s mailbox, I decided to post it here. The fact that I can add Futurama GIFs to posts here, and not on SAA Connect, had absolutely nothing to do with this decision (he said, unconvincingly.). For your reference, the original question:].
Data Breach Today
APRIL 9, 2018
What Remediation Steps Should Be Taken? Over 200,000 Cisco networks switches worldwide reportedly were hacked Friday, apparently affecting critical infrastructure of large internet service providers and data centers across the world, especially in Iran, Russia, the United States, China, Europe and India. What remediation steps should be taken?
IT Governance
APRIL 3, 2018
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)’s compliance deadline is looming. Every organisation that processes personal data must be in compliance with the new law by 25 May or risk substantial regulatory fines from the Information Commissioner’s Office and legal action from aggrieved data subjects. If you haven’t already, your firm must start your compliance project straight away or risk being in non-compliance.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
APRIL 23, 2018
By Peter Galvin, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Thales eSecurity. Today, organizations are rapidly adopting cloud technology. Many organizations have implemented a cloud first philosophy, requiring that any new applications or IT investments start with the cloud. And not just one cloud, but organizations are investing in multiple clouds and SaaS applications.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Schneier on Security
APRIL 20, 2018
Elections serve two purposes. The first, and obvious, purpose is to accurately choose the winner. But the second is equally important: to convince the loser. To the extent that an election system is not transparently and auditably accurate, it fails in that second purpose. Our election systems are failing, and we need to fix them. Today, we conduct our elections on computers.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 29, 2018
There are a ton of claims around AI and cybersecurity that don't quite add up. Here's what's really going on.
The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 10, 2018
People who fear their information may have been used by Cambridge Analytica can go to a new help page Tell us how you’ve been affected by the Facebook data breach Facebook has started the process of notifying the approximately 87 million users whose data was harvested by the election consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The social network eventually hopes to inform every user who was affected with a warning at the top of their Facebook news feed.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 2, 2018
Following the Unauthorized Transfer Attempt, Philippines Alerts Its Banks Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara Malaysia, says it detected and successfully blocked an attack that attempted to steal funds via fraudulent SWIFT interbank money-moving messages. The attack against BNM led the central bank of the Philippines to issue an alert to banks in that country.
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TAB OnRecord
APRIL 26, 2018
Many RIM managers are tasked with finding ways to ensure their RIM programs are effectively and accurately used. The best way to accomplish this is to develop a policies and procedures manual for record users. This will ensure your organization reaps all of its RIM program benefits. It should outline what responsibilities, expectations, and authority [.
Data Matters
APRIL 5, 2018
On 28 February 2018, the Belgian Commission for the Protection of Privacy (the “Privacy Commission”) published a recommendation setting out its approach to Data Protection Impact Assessments (“DPIAs”), and in doing so published a “White List” and a “Black List” of processing operations, pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Organisations subject to the GDPR are required to assess whether they need to undertake a DPIA when undertaking new processing operations.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
APRIL 4, 2018
Thales eSecurity’s CTO Jon Geater and Peter Carlisle , Thales eSecurity’s VP of Sales, EMEA, were recently featured in major news outlets espousing their opinions about internet-connected devices and the new Cyber Security Export Strategy. Geater, on new UK IoT security guidelines. Earlier this month, the UK government announced guidelines to make internet-connected devices safer.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 17, 2018
Among those involved in David Pokora's so-called Xbox Underground, one would become an informant, one would become a fugitive, and one would end up dead.
Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.
The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 3, 2018
The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet Union. We need laws to stop this data being collected in the first place • Richard Stallman is president of the Free Software Foundation Journalists have been asking me whether the revulsion against the abuse of Facebook data could be a turning point for the campaign to recover privacy.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 9, 2018
Time Inc.'s Deputy CISO on the Challenge of Ensuring Content Security In this era of "fake news," Time Inc. Deputy CISO Preeti Palanisamy takes seriously the challenge of maintaining the integrity of journalism from content creation through production and eventual publication.
TAB OnRecord
APRIL 5, 2018
In parts one and two of this blog post we discussed the importance of records management professionals getting involved in the early stages of the information lifecycle, and the need to convey RIM principles in terms of business outcomes. The final segment of this three-part post covers the skills needed by RIM professionals to be [.] Read More. The post How modern RIM professionals are staying relevant – Part 3 appeared first on TAB Records Management Blog | TAB OnRecord.
Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC
APRIL 4, 2018
Digital Transformation is becoming a business mandate. Why? Figure 1: “Driving Business Strategies with Data Science: Big Data MBA” Because in our evolving world, successful digital transformation will be the difference whether a business survives or wilts in the modern economy. Consequently, Professor Sidaoui and I felt it was critical that we prepare our University of San Francisco students for a world where digital transformation was the business norm.
Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL
Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.
Imperial Violet
APRIL 10, 2018
In 2016, my colleague, Matt Braithwaite, ran an experiment in Google Chrome which integrated a post-quantum key-agreement primitive ( NewHope ) with a standard, elliptic-curve one (X25519). Since that time, the submissions for the 1 st round of NIST’s post-quantum process have arrived. We thus wanted to consider which of the submissions, representing the new state of the art, would be most suitable for future work on post-quantum confidentiality in TLS.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 9, 2018
Facebook has released a tool that lets you see if you were caught up in the Cambridge Analytica fiasco—and what other apps know about you know.
The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 5, 2018
Founder says he takes full responsibility for data breaches and will not ‘throw anyone else under the bus’ Mark Zuckerberg has rejected calls for heads to roll at Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, saying that he takes full responsibility. Speaking after Facebook’s fullest statement yet about the data breach, which the company now says resulted in 87m profiles being extracted from the platform, Zuckerberg insisted he remained the correct person to run the company.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 25, 2018
North Korea Suspected of Running 'GhostSecret' Attacks Against Banks, Others The Thai government has seized servers used to run the so-called GhostSecret cyber espionage campaign that targets organizations in the finance, healthcare and critical infrastructure sectors - and beyond. McAfee suspects the attacks are being launched by "Hidden Cobra" - a hacking group tied to North Korea.
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TAB OnRecord
APRIL 19, 2018
Protecting the environment can translate into an improved bottom line, from the cost savings associated with resource conservation, to benefits of increased consumer and shareholder confidence. In this blog we will be sharing six ways to incorporate environmentally friendly practices into your organization’s RIM processes. 1. The more you throw away, the more you can [.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 9, 2018
This vulnerability is a result of an interaction between two different ways of handling e-mail addresses. Gmail ignores dots in addresses, so bruce.schneier@gmail.com is the same as bruceschneier@gmail.com is the same as b.r.u.c.e.schneier@gmail.com. (Note: I do not own any of those email addresses -- if they're even valid.) Netflix doesn't ignore dots, so those are all unique e-mail addresses and can each be used to register an account.
Dark Reading
APRIL 17, 2018
Hackers are craftier than ever, pilfering PII piecemeal so bad actors can combine data to set up schemes to defraud medical practices, steal military secrets and hijack R&D product information.
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