Tag Archives: data breach

The Internal Revenue Service has awarded consumer credit reporting agency Equifax a $7.2 million contract for taxpayer identity management and verification support services. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the agency awarded the sole-source contract in order to “cover the timeframe needed to resolve the protest” on a new contract. …

Gregory Garrett, head of international cybersecurity practice at BDO USA, told Federal News Radio in an interview that aired Monday he has observed a growing demand for cyber liability insurance among government contracting firms due to increased breach incidents. “It is very much real and in demand,” Garrett said of cyber liability …

Deloitte has been a target of a cyber attack that compromised the accounting firm’s global email server through the use of an “administrator’s account” to gain access, The Guardian reported Monday. The report said Deloitte learned of the security breach in March and that hacking activities could have started since October …

Wayne Lewandowski, vice president of federal business at Thales e-Security, has said the level of spending increase in cybersecurity is lower than any other industry due to rising incidents of data breaches and lack of federal budget, Defense Systems reported Friday. Lewandowski said an independent study on cyber attacks found …

A new report by CyberScout and the Identity Theft Resource Center says the government and military sector represented 6.6 percent of the total number of U.S. data breach cases in 2016 with 72 incidents reported. The ITRC Data Breach Report 2016 shows the total number of breaches in the U.S. reached 1,093 …

Haiyan Song, Splunk vice president of security markets, said more organizations will adopt adaptive response, behavioral analytics and machine learning strategies to automate response, retrieval and sharing in multivendor environments. Song wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday machine learning-based systems will increase in 2017 as government and industry organizations look …

A new study by CA Technologies has found that 82 percent of senior information technology and business executives believe that implementation of an identity-centric approach to security plays a critical role in their businesses. CA Technologies said Tuesday it commissioned marketing research provider Coleman Parkes to poll 1,770 IT executives in 10 industry sectors across …

BAE Systems has introduced an online tool designed to help business organizations assess their cybersecurity measures. BAE’s online platform works to help organizations evaluate the status of their cybersecurity programs for their information and communications technology systems through responses to 10 questions that are based on cyber guidance issued by CESG, the …

Larry Prior, CEO of federal technology services contractor CSRA, has said he thinks the next U.S. administration should prioritize efforts to update and repair the federal government’s information technology infrastructure as the country competes in the global economy. Prior told CRN associate editor Jimmy Sheridan in an interview published Thursday that …

A new Avaya survey says only 23 percent of information technology professionals believe their organizations implement end-to-end network segmentation as a strategy to protect their corporate networks from data breaches, ransomware attacks and other cyber threats. Avaya said Thursday it commissioned independent survey research firm VeraQuest Research to conduct an online …

DLT Solutions and Centrify have forged a partnership to introduce a multi-factor authentication platform that aims to help government agencies protect their information infrastructure and applications from data breaches and other cyber threats. Jeremy Young, vice president of cybersecurity division at DLT, said in a statement released Wednesday the company …

A new EMC Corp. study reveals data loss incidents have manifested their economic impact on organizations as enterprises fail to respond to data protection challenges. The Global Data Protection Index 2016 report, conducted by Vanson Bourne, shows a lack of preparation for new and emerging threats among businesses, EMC said …

A new Tripwire survey says 73 percent of information technology professionals in the federal government believe their IT systems would send e-mail notifications or alerts of non-privileged access to files within hours. Tripwire said Thursday it commissioned market research firm Dimensional Research to poll 763 IT executives from different sectors, including 103 …

Gemalto‘s third-annual Data Security Confidence Index says a majority of organizations continue to depend on basic perimeter security systems against data breaches regardless of increased cyber threats worldwide. The company said Wednesday that 61 percent of the 1,100 IT decision maker respondents believed that their basic perimeter security methods such as firewalls, IDPS and anomaly detection were …

A Symantec report says the number of zero-day vulnerabilities was up 125 percent in 2015 from the previous year as cyber threat actors set up businesses and implement best practices in order to launch attacks against commercial firms and consumers. The company said Tuesday the Internet Security Threat Report indicates …