A Privitar survey has found that 78 percent of consumers said they are concerned or very concerned when it comes to personal data protection and more than 50 percent of respondents said they are still wary when it comes to sharing personal data.
Read More »Wendi Whitmore: IBM Report Finds Link Between Security Automation, Breach Cost Reduction
Wendi Whitmore, vice president of a team working on threat intelligence and incident response at IBM, said the company’s Cost of a Data Breach report shows a connection between the adoption of security automation and orchestration practices and reduced data breach costs, Nextgov reported Thursday.
Read More »Cloudera’s Shaun Bierweiler: ‘Connected Campus’ Could Help Universities Enhance Student Experience
Shaun Bierweiler, president of government solutions business at Cloudera, wrote in a LinkedIn article published Thursday that investing in internet of things and other information technology platforms could help higher education institutions improve operational efficiency and student experience.
Read More »Capital One Data Breach Linked to Insider Threat; SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni Quoted
A data breach at Capital One Financial compromised the personal information of more than 100M U.S. and Canadian customers and credit card applicants, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Read More »Symantec: Enterprise Security Practices Struggle to Keep Pace With Cloud Adoption
A new Symantec report says 54 percent of information technology decision makers think their organizations’ cloud security practices cannot keep pace with rapid cloud adoption.
Read More »HP Federal’s Tommy Gardner: Culture Change, Budget, Modern Tech Key to Public Sector Cybersecurity
Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer of HP’s federal business, has said government agencies should transform their organizational cultures, adjust budgeting approaches and implement new technolgy as part of initiatives to avoid another data breach similar to the Office of Personnel Management hack that occurred nearly four years ago.
Read More »Verizon: Cyber Espionage, Privilege Misuse, Miscellaneous Errors as Top 3 Breach Patterns in Public Sector
A new Verizon report says cyber espionage, error by insiders and privilege misuse accounted for 72 percent of data breaches in the public sector. Verizon analyzed over 41K security incidents and more than 2K data breaches from 86 countries for the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report and found that 16 percent of breaches occurred in the public sector.
Read More »Thales Report: Agencies Use Sensitive Data in Cloud, Other Tech Environments; Nick Jovanovic Quoted
A new report by Thales says 98 percent of U.S. federal government respondents said they are using sensitive data with digitally transformative technologies such as cloud, internet of things, big data and blockchain. The 2019 Thales Data Threat Report – Federal Edition showed that less than a third of the respondents are adopting data encryption within those tech environments, the company said Wednesday.
Read More »Stan Black: Citrix Launches Forensic Investigation Into Internal Network Breach
Stan Black, chief security and information officer at Citrix, has said the company was informed by the FBI on Wednesday that international cyber hackers may have accessed and downloaded documents through a tactic that uses weak passwords called password spraying. Black wrote in a blog post published Friday that Citrix has launched a forensic investigation, sought the help of a cybersecurity firm and initiated actions to protect its internal network in response to the incident.
Report: OPM Plans Rebid for ID Theft Protection Contract
The Office of Personnel Management will launch a competitive solicitation for the recompete of a contract to provide identity theft protection and credit monitoring services to former and current federal employees, Nextgov reported Tuesday. ID Experts provides the services to more than 20M people affected by government data breaches in …
Read More »Cyber Training Demands Specific Approach; SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni Quoted
Employees continue to click on malicious links amid government agencies’ efforts to launch training programs and assessments as part of their cyber defense strategies, Government Technology magazine reported. A study by the Federal Information Systems Security Educators’ Association shows that 34 percent of cyber breaches are associated with negligence or …
Read More »Raytheon-Ponemon Survey: IT Professionals Predict ‘Catastrophic’ Data Breach Due to Unsafe Internet Devices
A Raytheon-commissioned study has found that 82 percent of senior information technology professionals said they predict the use of unsecured internet of things-based devices to result in a major data breach over the next three years. The Ponemon Institute polled approximately 1,100 senior IT practitioners in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East …
Read More »Thales: Federal Agencies Saw 20% Rise in Data Breaches; Nick Jovanovic Comments
A new report by Thales says 57 percent of U.S. federal government respondents claimed their agencies experienced a data breach over the past year. The figure in the “2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition” shows a 23-percent increase from the 2017 report, which revealed that 34 percent of respondents encountered …
Read More »BitSight Survey: Botnet Attacks Prevalent Among Govt Contractors
A new survey by cybersecurity company BitSight says botnets have become widespread among government contractors specifically for manufacturing and health care firms, e-End reported Friday. BitSight polled at least 1,200 federal government contractors and found that health care firms have recorded a data breach incidence rate of 8.2 percent since …
Read More »IRS Orders Temporary Suspension of Equifax ID Verification Support Contract
The Internal Revenue Service has decided to temporarily postpone a $7.2 million contract awarded to consumer credit reporting firm Equifax for taxpayer identity verification support services as the agency continues to review the company’s systems, Politico reported Thursday. The decision came weeks after the agency awarded the sole-source contract to Equifax …
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