Data Security Archives

Digital Transformation Starts with Security

Digital transformation is significantly impacting business — from data-driven decision-making and cloud adoption to mobility and the Internet-of-Things (IoT) explosion — unleashing innovation to drive business outcomes and opening countless points of attack for enterprises. Decision makers are looking to digital transformation to enhance business agility, deliver customer insights, provide operational efficiencies and increase their market share. The payoff is great, but with a change in technology, comes a need…

This entry was posted in Data Security and tagged sensitive data on March 14, 2019 by Bill Kuypers

How to Avoid CISO Job Burnout

A recent survey conducted by the Osterman Research organization of 408 CISO’s in the USA and UK produced some alarming results. Of all those surveyed, nearly 70% discovered some type of malware hidden on their networks for an unknown period of time. In addition, over two-thirds of all CISO’s have held their job for less than three years. And of most concern was the finding that 91% suffer moderate or…

This entry was posted in Data Security and tagged ciso on March 11, 2019 by Bill Kuypers

Security Always Makes the List

Every year analysts make a whole host of predictions about which IT trends will grab the most attention. The one forecast that seems to be on every list pertains to security — more complicated, increasing risks and new worries. This year is no different. With talk of IoT and AI and the wonders that they will bring to the business, come the worries of how to secure everything, sort of…

This entry was posted in Data Security and tagged Data Security on March 6, 2019 by Bill Kuypers

Data Security Breaches – Times are Changing

Despite these words being sung by a troubadour who is probably still using a typewriter to pen his lyrics, their meaning could never be truer than now regarding data security breaches. Just this week a $3.1 million class action suit was levied against Community Health Systems for a 2014 breach. In addition, electronic health records vendor Greenway Health was hit by the Department of Justice with a $57.25 million fine…

This entry was posted in Breaches, Data Security and tagged Data Security on March 4, 2019 by Bill Kuypers

DATA…DATA EVERYWHERE…NO SECURITY TO SPARE

According to our friends at the Ponemon Institute, 65 percent of info security pros would like to store object data in the cloud. Unfortunately, 47 percent don’t believe or are not sure if data in the cloud is as secure as their own data center. Without drawing intersecting circles of interrelationship, it is clear that there is a bit of a disconnect. While the primary reason for wanting to move…

This entry was posted in Data Security and tagged Data Security on February 26, 2019 by Bill Kuypers

Learn When to Classify Data

The easy answer to when you should classify new data is as soon as it is created. However, as data moves through each stage of the lifecycle, it is important to evaluate and update its classification, as necessary. As the data classification process is likely new to your organization, there will be data in each of these stages and it is important to classify data regardless of which stage of the data…

This entry was posted in Classification, Data Security and tagged classify data on January 24, 2019 by Douglas Ribback

Data Compliance is not Data Security

What does it mean to be compliant? Compliance is the state of following rules and regulations and conforming to specifications, policies, standards or laws within those regulations. There are data security rules that can come from industry or legislative compliance guidelines. Every company may have their own data security compliance standards that vary. Financial institutions and medical companies likely have various requirements and policies for storing data for their company…

This entry was posted in Breaches, data breach, Data privacy, Data Security, Regulation and tagged Compliance, data privacy, Data Security, Regulation on January 18, 2019 by Douglas Ribback

‘Tis the Season for Better Data Governance – Start with Data Discovery and Classification

(by Todd Feinman, Spirion Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer) Data Discovery and Classification The holiday season is typically when data breaches often occur. We’ve seen significant news stories about breaches at Starwood Hotels and Quora. Around the holidays in 2017, it was announced that there was a significant privacy leak at eBay affecting many customers. And, it was just before the holidays in 2013 that Target announced the infamous breach…

This entry was posted in Breaches, Classification, data breach, Data privacy, Data Security, sensitive data management on January 12, 2019 by Scott Giordano

U.S. State Data Protection Law Roundup for 2018 On-Demand Webinar

On-Demand Webinar: “U.S. State Data Protection Law Roundup for 2018” To combat ongoing security breaches and risks, many…

This entry was posted in Breaches, Data privacy, Data Security and tagged data protection on January 11, 2019 by Scott Giordano

You Need to Comply with 23 NYCRR Part 500

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…

This entry was posted in Breaches, Data privacy, Data Security, Regulation on May 11, 2018 by Douglas Ribback