Analyzing the Global Impact of Cybersecurity, Law, and Business Risk.
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month in the United States and you can check out lots of great content by going to #CyberAware on Twitter or to my team's #CyberAvengers content. As my contribution to #CyberAware, I hope you find the following checklist to be helpful and all I ask of you in return is [...]
Third-party risk (or nth-party risk) is a hot topic in cybersecurity. While it can mean many things, at its core third-party risk describes a situation in which an organization that does a good job of protecting its own network and data, within its environment, works with other organizations that do not do such a good [...]
When we think of cybercrime, cybersecurity, cyber[fill-in-the-blank], we need to remember there are two components: (1) the cyber, and (2) the other. The cyber part simply refers to the tool that is used or the target that is attacked. And, for Heaven's sake, please quit getting freaked out by the word "hack" -- hacking means unauthorized access [...]
Third-party risk (or nth-party risk) is a hot topic in cybersecurity. While it can mean many things, at its core third-party risk describes a situation in which an organization that does a good job of protecting its own network and data, within its environment, works with other organizations that do not do such a good [...]
The US House of Representatives has passed legislation similar to that recently passed by the Senate that would require the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to produce cybersecurity guidance that will be aimed at helping small businesses. The NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act of 2017 would include NIST’s creating guidelines, tools, and best [...]