Thoughts on Corporate Risk and How Companies are Handling the Challenge
CEOs: Maintain Cyber Resilience While Dealing with COVID-19
What is the relationship between the coronavirus outbreak and cybersecurity? Both require conscious CEO leadership.
Dozens of Texas Cities Suffer Ransomware Hack
Another day, another cyber attack — success for the hackers and another failure by city governments to have adequate protection.
Lawsuit Pins Customer Data Security Responsibility on CapitalOne
When will corporate America and their executives take a serious look at their culpability and liability in data breaches?
Massive Cyberattack Significantly Impacts Credit Risk Ratings for Equifax
For the first time ever, a major credit risk agency slashed a company’s credit rating due to a cyber breach. How can credit risk agencies improve their ability to assess cyber risk?
RIMS2019 Boston: 3 Challenges We Face Today
How Risk Managers Can Manage Cyber Risk
Cybersecurity Breaches Pose Significant Risk to Reputation: A Simple Solution to Ensure Client Trust
Despite being a cybersecurity expert insurer Hiscox Ltd. experienced a data breach. Could Hiscox have prevented this damaging blow to its reputation?
2019 – Make it the Year for Cyber Resilience
Some organizations handled it well, and others had trouble meeting cyber resilience goals. In 2019, make it the year for cyber resilience success.
Cyber Security Reaches Tipping Point (or Critical Mass)
Investment into Business Cyber Security Is Critical for Survival ONE TRILLION DOLLARS. That number should grab the attention of every CEO in America. The breach by Marriott Hotels pushes their potential financial liability to surpass a trillion dollars. The breach...
A Comprehensive Assessment of FFIEC CAT and NIST CSF
What are the differences between cyber assessments from FFIEC and NIST? Can information from one assessment help with the other?
Cyber Risk Success – Best Bet through an Integrated Risk Management Strategy
Recent studies exposed a massive misalignment between security spending and the actual cause of cyber breaches. Two-third of breaches are caused by someone either doing what they shouldn’t or failing to do what they should, yet three-fourths of security spending is on information technology solutions.
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CEOs: Maintain Cyber Resilience While Dealing with COVID-19
More people working from home combined with disrupting supply chains increases the potential for cyber breaches against unprepared organizations.
Cybergovernance Journal – 11/11/19
October was the 16th annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM). Read about the results of the first statewide cyber benchmark conducted for the banking industry.
The biggest data breach fines, penalties and settlements so far
Hacks and data thefts, enabled by weak security, cover-ups or avoidable mistakes have cost these companies a total of nearly $1.45 billion and counting.
Practicing SAFETY: A “New” Way for Companies to Manage Cyber-Risk
The socioeconomic ramifications of a single cyber-attack are extensive. These include financial harm, government investigations, regulatory fines, public backlash, negative industry reputation, and even shareholder lawsuits.
Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax
The Equifax incident should have sparked a fire under the credit giants. The breach was the canary in the coal mine.
Capital One Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Following Massive Data Breach
You’d think with one data breach after another, companies would wise up and take responsibility for the data it collects from consumers, but unfortunately, they continue to shirk that responsibility.
Indiana sues Equifax after 2017 data breach
The state is suing one of the largest financial institutions in the country and hoping thousands of Hoosiers will benefit.
Indiana attorney general sues Equifax
Attorney General Curtis Hill filed suit today against one of the nation’s leading credit reporting bureaus for a 2017 data breach.
Indiana sues Equifax for exposing personal information of millions of Hoosiers in 2017 data breach
Attorney General Curtis Hill Jr. announces Monday that Indiana is suing the credit reporting agency Equifax in connection with a 2017 data breach that exposed the personal information of some 3.9 million Hoosiers.
Millions of Hoosiers were affected by data breach. Equifax didn’t protect them, AG says
So remember that gigantic Equifax data breach in 2017? And how consumer credit reporting agencies were trying to get everyone to lock or freeze their credit reports to stop the problem from snowballing?
An Open Letter To Uber’s CEO On America’s Technology Leadership
Uber would benefit from a focused Technology and Cybersecurity Committee to oversee this significant business risk, along with a technology driven future.
The Business Value of Cybersecurity
It is now becoming crystal clear that cybersecurity – beyond good practice and good ethics – is quite simply good business.
Why wait for a cyber catastrophe to prepare for a cyber attack?
Mounting threat levels have pushed utilities to take a more robust approach to security, but there is significant room for improvement.
Aon releases 2019 cybersecurity risk report
Aon has released its 2019 Cyber Security Risk Report, which details the greatest cybersecurity threats industries are facing today.
Actions CISOs Must Take to Overcome Negative Perceptions
It’s not enough for CISOs to have strong technical skills. In this pivotal role, they must also become strong internal leaders.