What are you doing to observe it? Today is Data Privacy Day! If you have been wondering “what is Data Privacy Day?” then this is your lucky day because not only is today Data Privacy Day, but here is the answer and an explanation for why it really matters to you and your company’s future …
Category Archives: Cybersecurity Law
Update/Clarification: Washington AG Seeks Data Breach Law That Ends Blanket Exemption for Encrypted Data
This update/clarification post explains how the proposed Washington state data breach notification law is really treating encrypted data and how it may actually be expanding the data breach safe harbor exceptions under that law.
Three Takeaways from the Target Data Breach Ruling – Norse DarkMatters
Read my latest post on Norse’s DarkMatters: Three Takeaways from the Target Data Breach Ruling
Boards Had Better Start Paying Attention to Cybersecurity
Yesterday Forbes featured an excellent article that explained why it is important for companies to create Board-level committees to focus exclusively on the issue of cybersecurity. Here is just a teaser but I encourage you to read the entire article. Step one for every board is to understand that it is supposed to be offering oversight on …
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#SonyHack: Will Executives’ Embarrassing Emails Better Motivate Cybersecurity Change?
Sitting in the Miami airport at 5:00 am I am reading news updates on the #SonyHack and a thought just occurred to me: Previously, many of us preaching the “you better take your company’s security seriously” message to the C-Suites have been wondering if it would take a court decision finding C-Levels or Board members …
DarkMatters: The Nature of Cybersecurity and Strategies for Unprecedented Cyber Attacks
Check out Shawn Tuma’s latest article on Norse’s DarkMatters: The Nature of Cybersecurity and Strategies for Unprecedented Cyber Attacks
#SonyHack shows there are no “safe secrets” in the corporate world – what do you do?
The #sonyhack will change the way the corporate world operates in many ways that we cannot even yet imagine. Yes, there are obvious data security implications that I usually drone on about, but there is another change that we may see come about. The now outdated idea that internal corporate secrets will remain corporate secrets. You know, …
Check out my first post on Norse’s DarkMatters > Sony Hack: Where Do We Die First?
Hey everybody, go check out my first post on Norse’s DarkMatters blog — yeah, you know, Norse with the awesome Live Cyber Attack Map! Now that you’re mesmerized by the map, here’s the post and please share it! Sony Hack: Where Do We Die First?
After this judge’s ruling, do you finally see value in passwords? | CSO Online
Thank you Michael Santarcangelo for quoting me in your excellent article: After this judge’s ruling, do you finally see value in passwords? | CSO Online.
The Art of Cybersecurity: How Sun Tzu Masterminded the Home Depot Data Breach
Sun Tzu taught that, when it comes to the art of cybersecurity, you must be wary of your business associates and other third parties. Why? Have you heard that Home Depot had a data breach? That hackers were able to exfiltrate 56 million payment cards and 53 million customer email addresses from its systems? Did …
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