The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In one very recent caper, the attackers targeted the CFO of a financial services firm, as he worked from home, Sherman says. This is why it is important to build employee training for consumer IoT devices into security awareness training programs.” The attackers successfully got a foothold on the exec’s MacBook.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

Security awareness training still has a place to play here." New-school security awareness training with simulated phishing tests enables your employees to recognize increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks and builds a strong security culture. We must ask: 'Is the email expected? Is the from address legit?

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KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

Perhaps more importantly, do you know how effective new-school security awareness training is as a mission-critical layer in your security stack? million simulated phishing security tests. Get tricked into giving away their credentials or download malware? million users across 35,681 organizations with over 32.1

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Data Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

implement a security awareness and training program for all workforce members pursuant to the HIPAA Security Rule. See 45 CFR 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A)-(B): Implementation Specification: Risk Analysis (required), Implementation Specification: Risk Management (required); see also 45 CFR 164.304 (definition of “Availability”).

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This means you have a bunch of users that unwittingly follow a set of unusual and unnecessary clicks that they should know better than to follow – something they learn very quickly if they are enrolled in new-school security awareness training. Blog post with links: [link] Are Your Users Making Risky Security Mistakes?

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 13, 2019

For example, the New York Department of Financial Services (‘NYDFS’) in March 2017 issued its Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR 500) (‘the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation’), a groundbreaking and far-reaching regulatory regime focused on financial institutions licensed in New York, including insurance companies.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MARCH 14, 2019

Under the proposed Rule, FIs would be required to provide personnel with security awareness training that is updated to reflect risks identified by the FI’s risk assessment. The proposed amendments follow the FTC’s receipt of public comments in 2016 regarding the Safeguards Rule as part of the FTC’s regular review cycle.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

For example, the results of deploying a framework such as CKMS to address company critical information assets, and its impact on cyber risk, could readily be rolled-up into a dashboard for review by an appropriate board committee on cybersecurity, or the full board, as needed.

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

That's right – the financial services industry, at least according to cybersecurity vendor Armorblox's 2023 Email Security Threat Report. Blog post with links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2021

Microsoft said it notified the targeted 150 organizations, which included “IT companies (57%), followed by government (20%), and smaller percentages for non-governmental organizations and think tanks, as well as financial services.” Only three of the 150 entities actually got compromised. Simple techniques.

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