23 NYCRR Part 500 became effective on March 1, 2017. The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) requires banks, insurers and other financial services companies to set up a cybersecurity program aimed at protecting consumer information from being compromised or stolen. The impact of the regulation is much broader than just New York State as it applies to any organization with a presence in New York and may even…
Spirion recently hosted a live webcast discussion on the topic of “Locating and Managing EU Personal Data for GDPR,” featuring a panel of security experts, comprised of: Colin Anderson, global CISO of Levi Strauss & Co.; Todd Feinman, founder and CEO of Spirion; Scott Giordano, privacy attorney and director at Robert Half Legal; and, Justin Suissa, principal at infoedge. In this webinar, the panel dives into a critical step on…
(by Todd Feinman, CEO and Founder of Spirion) My team thought others would be interested in a memo that I sent to some friends and colleagues. The memo follows: I have received an overwhelming number of requests for information about what to do since the Equifax leak of 143 million SSNs was disclosed. I’ve tried to summarize those questions to help you protect yourself, your family, and your business. If…
(by Todd Feinman, CEO and Founder Spirion) Equifax allowed 143 million Social Security Numbers (SSN), Names, Date of Birth (DOB), and other personally identifiable information (PII) to be stolen. This affects most of us personally because we all have financial accounts (e.g., credit card, bank account, mortgage, car lease) and it’s highly likely Equifax was the recipient of your SSN from a bank who ran a credit report on you…
(by Cory Retherford, Spirion user) Greetings! I am a Solution Engineer for Spirion, LLC. My adventure using the data security software began in 2007 as the Indiana University Technology Services Manager for Student Enrollment Services. We had an organizational mission to provide a solution that would allow a better understanding our data footprint and the types of data existing on our workstations, servers, and websites. As it happens fate guided me to the Identity…
Classified data is data that has been tagged with information that identifies that data by specific attributes that allow people and technologies to treat it in a specific way. So, what makes data sensitive and how can you determine how sensitive it is and when and how to classify it? Read on to find out. Understanding What Makes Data Sensitive? Sensitive Data is information which, if accessed by an adversary,…
Data classification is a core component of defining and understanding data that security and risk professionals must protect, as well as identifying the way employees should handle it and the types of security controls that are necessary. Data classification tools, which include manual (user-driven) and automated classification, help organizations apply metadata tags to sensitive data. In the last year, more than half of global security decision makers have implemented data…
Over the next 2 months, we’ll be posting a series of blogs that will share information and best practices garnered from over a decade of experience implementing data discovery and more recent data classification solutions. In this blog series you will learn how to identify data as sensitive, how to define a classification schema and separate your data, the risks of not classifying data balanced with the benefits of a…
Following Spirion’s presentation at RSA 2017, “The Impact of Data Discovery and Data Classification in Information Security” Dr. Larry Ponemon of the Ponemon Institute discusses some of the key findings from “The Importance of DLP in Cybersecurity Defense” Ponemon report. The report, which was published in February of 2017, found significant differences between responses of those that are using a manual approach to mitigate or curtail the leakage of sensitive…
We’ve all heard sports stars and even militaries quote the famous Chinese general Sun Tzu when preparing for a big game or battle. Sun Tzu was a master strategist and completely grasped the concept of deception when facing an opponent. One of the best quotes in his famous book, “The Art of War” regarding deception goes like this: “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to…