Tag: Officers & Directors

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…

Read More

The Best Evidence Why Your Company Needs a CISO Before a Data Breach

“The proof is in the pudding,” goes the old saying. When it comes to organizational changes companies make following a data breach, If the proof is in the pudding, then the verdict is clear: companies should hire a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) before they have a data breach. Why? According to this article in…

Read More

Platform Magazine Quotes Tuma Discussing CyberGard: The Public Relations Side of a Data Breach

Thank you to Platform Magazine for quoting me discussing the PR component of my CyberGard – Business Cyber Risk Protection Program in this forward thinking article about the value of getting public relations on board before your company has a data breach. In a recent post I explained why a data breach response must focus on the…

Read More

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…

Read More

Stop lying to yourself — your business is not prepared for data breach risk

Ponemon studies from September 2014 tell us that 43% of US companies had a data breach last year, even if they are not aware of it, and 78% either do not have a data breach response plan in place or have not updated it in a timely manner. This means that your business must be ready…

Read More

Yes, I will mention this post in tomorrow’s seminar on data breach! “Who’s Gonna Get It?”

This is one of my favorite and my most popular posts ever — and you better believe I will find a way to mention it to this group of CEOs to help them understand why it is important to take seriously the data security threat! Data Breach – Who’s Gonna Get It? | business cyber…

Read More

“Defense wins championships” when preparing for the inevitable data breach

“The best strategy to manage the inevitable data breach of your enterprise is to be prepared.” -Adam Greenberg, SC Magazine Exactly–you must prepare on 2 fronts: Defense & Response In a recent article in SC Magazine, Adam Greenberg marches along faithfully with many of us in trying to get you, the business leader, to appreciate the…

Read More

FBI Director Talks Cyber Espionage: Chinese Like “Drunk Burglar”

“[T]here are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who’ve been hacked by the Chinese and those who don’t know they’ve been hacked by the Chinese” -FBI Director The pervasive threat that cyber espionage poses to American business is not a new topic on this blog — we have been talking about it…

Read More

Gov’t Contractors Must Notify of Data Breach Within 3 days

If your business is a contractor for the federal government, you had better have your data breach response ducks in a row. The moment you detect a breach, the clock starts ticking and you have only 3 days to notify of the breach. Yes, I said 3 days! You better already know who your legal counsel…

Read More
%d bloggers like this: