To ensure privacy is protected, governments need to make sure standards and regulations keep pace with the latest technology developments, including facial recognition and other forms of artificial intelligence, says Steven Feldstein, an associate professor at Boise State University.
What should healthcare organizations know about complying with the breach notification and data security requirements of New York's SHIELD Act? And how does the new law compare with HIPAA? Jon Moore, chief risk officer at consulting firm Clearwater, explains.
The FBI is warning banks, businesses and other organizations that cybercriminals are using social engineering and other technical techniques to circumvent multifactor authentication security protections.
Ransomware attacks are among the largest incidents added to the federal tally of major health data breaches in recent weeks. Attacks on a variety of clinics affected a total of more than 1 million individuals.
As cyberattacks grow in frequency and complexity, businesses are turning to threat intelligence to better understand those attacks and protect themselves. Threat intelligence uses data points to provide an understanding of threats to an organization, but intelligence is only as good as the data available. If data...
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions have typically been focused on alerting organizations of issues that applications and network hardware identify. When those alerts go unheeded or don't deliver next steps on how to mitigate threats, SIEM can become an expensive and ineffective tool.
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Many organizations aggressively roll out SIEM or log management based on sales promises that "it will do everything for you." While these promises are mostly true, they may represent an organization's end goal, not their realistic starting point.
The reality is that SIEM functionality is limited to where the...
Effective security is a moving target - that's not news. So how can an organization stay ahead of the game? By giving itself the ability to see farther.
The power of centralized log data is the ability to see more by giving your security data more context. And as most analysts know, context can mean the difference...
Nation-state attackers have been targeting known flaws that customers have yet to patch in their Pulse Secure, Palo Alto and Fortinet VPN servers, Britain's National Cyber Security Center warns, adding that any organization that didn't immediately apply patches should review logs for signs of hacking.
Officials in New Zealand are investigating one or more data breaches at a healthcare provider that could have affected nearly 1 million patients. While the most recent cyber intrusion was discovered in August, it appears that attackers began accessing the Tū Ora Compass Health network as early as 2016.
Organizations must take a number of critical steps to prepare a response to ransomware attacks before they hit, says Caleb Barlow, the new president and CEO of security consulting firm CynergisTek, who offers a guide.
Facebook is falling under renewed pressure for its plans to make its messaging platforms fully encrypted. The U.S., U.K. and Australia are asking Facebook to ensure law enforcement can access messages.
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