While it was only a very short clip (@1:00), there was something really fun about doing a tv interview, sitting on the deck overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, while at NetDiligence®Cyber Risk Summit #NetDiligence to talk about Facebook‘s little cyber “thing”! https://www.wfaa.com/video/tech/investigation-underway-after-facebook-goes-down-for-almost-a-day/287-18ccb300-6b97-4e22-a0ef-046ce8523318?jwsource=cl Full Story: Facebook outage: nice break or rude awakening?
Tag: Data breach
Ransomware Attacks! The 5 Best Practices the White House Urges all Businesses to Take to Mitigate Them
The threat of ransomware attacks against all American businesses is so great that on June 2, 2021, the White House issued a memo to all corporate executives and business leaders with the subject “What We Urge You To Do To Protect Against The Threat of Ransomware.” This is the first time such a memo has ever been…
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Shawn Tuma Provided Texas Bar Journal 2020 Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Update
Shawn Tuma provided the Texas Bar Journal’s 2020 year-end Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Update which addressed the following issues: online impersonation hacking laws authority of consent for search warrants and password protected devices ransomware attacks Read more here (LINK / PDF DOWNLOAD). Check out these articles: 2 Critical Cyber Insurance Issues All Companies Must Consider…
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Working From Home During COVID-19? Five Things You Should be Doing–But Probably Are Not–To Be More Cyber Secure (publication)
Many thanks to the Texas Bar Journal for publishing my recent article, Working From Home During COVID-19? Five Things You Should be Doing–But Probably Are Not–To Be More Cyber Secure, in the Cybersecurity Issue: Without an understanding of the particular organization or the unique risks it faces, it is impossible to know what is best or…
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The Art of Cybersecurity: How Sun Tzu Masterminded the FireEye / US Agencies / SolarWinds Cyberattacks
Sun Tzu taught that, when it comes to the art of cybersecurity, you must be wary of your business partners and other third parties. Why? Unless you are living under a rock, you should have heard that FireEye–perhaps the preeminent cybersecurity firm on the face of the planet–was the victim of a successful cyberattack. So…
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Think your company is too sophisticated to be hit with a successful cyber attack? Ask FireEye …
A lot of business executives — and far too many IT professionals — think that their company’s IT systems are too sophisticated and well-maintained for their company to have a successful cyberattack against it. They think their company is doing it all right and this is only the kind of stuff that happens to “the…
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Simple Mistakes – Not Always “The Hackers” – Can Cause Substantial Data Breaches
It is not always the feared and dreaded “hackers” that cause the exposure and breach of confidentiality of sensitive personal information. Sometimes it’s just simple mistakes, but the consequences can be much the same. Consider this situation: NTreatment inadvertently exposed thousands of medical records online by neglecting to add password protection to one of its…
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Think your company is too sophisticated to be hit with a ransomware attack? Ask Advantech …
A lot of business executives — and far too many IT professionals — think that their company’s IT systems are too sophisticated and well-maintained for their company to have a successful ransomware attack against it. They think their company is doing it all right and this is only the kind of stuff that happens to…
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The Home Depot / State Attorneys General Settlement – My 1st and 2nd Thoughts
The Attorneys General of 46 states reached a $17.5 million-dollar settlement with The Home Depot, which was announced on November 24, 2020. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that this settlement was led by the Connecticut, Illinois, and Texas AGs and Texas will collect $1,777,440.00. I will have more to say about this settlement in…
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What Can Happen if You Do Not Notify Following a Data Breach?
Here is one of the questions we get asked most often: “Ok, so we’ve had a real data breach and you say we have clear notification obligations, what can happen if we just ignore it and pretend it never happened — that is, we just don’t notify?” Unfortunately, this question is oftentimes coupled with this…
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