This event closed 100% of the Attendees! The above video comes from an interview I did with Randy Sklar, President of Sklar Technology Partners. Whenever you do an event, it is best to video it! These video clips and interviews can then be used as promotional pieces for your next event – as well […]
What Question is Most Often Asked of the CISO, By The Board Of Directors? And What Questions Should They Be Asking? The big question being asked, according to Kim Nash, columnist for the WSJ, is; “Whether their company is vulnerable to breaches similar to those at Target Corp., Anthem Inc. and the U.S. Office of […]
32 Million Important Records Are you up on OPM? 18 Million personnel records breached in the Office of Personnel Management. It’s the latest in a string of high-profile data breaches our government has suffered. There’s been some reporting on this, but not nearly enough. The number was first reported around 4 million, then 18, and […]
New York Times posted this recently – And thanks to Fred at HP for sending this. Yahoo email hacked! Again, China is mentioned as the hacker’s origination. For those of you fighting against people moving to the cloud – keep these articles in front of your clients! I spoke about this in an interview a […]
They’re all headed that way – EMR. Is it safe? Of course not. What makes this data at risk? There are two things; first people want it and they know where it is…with the doctor and with the insurance company. Second, the people creating it, using it, and responsible for it are generally clueless as […]
I received this from one of my colleagues while sitting in the Las Vegas airport, heading home from last night’s Seattle event. One of our event topics addressed the whereabouts of your client’s data…where is it? It’s everywhere. And that includes home. In an article from Today’s Washington Post (Thanks to my official DC Correspondent […]
The ITRC – Identity Theft Resource Center is a nonprofit organization that exists to “Educate consumers, corporations, government agencies and other organizations on best practices for fraud and identity theft detection, reduction and mitigation.” They put out a report each year summarizing who was breached and how many records were exposed (if known). 2008’s statistics […]
The Pentagon has been breached more than once (Here is one recent example) and over the past couple of weeks we’ve seen the following compromises: 250,000 SSNs – Florida State Workforce Innovation 6000 SSNs – US Army 1300 IDs – MD State Laptop stolen 59,000 IDs – Luxonica Retailer 97,000 SSNs – Starbucks laptop stolen […]
Over the holidays I received my personal copy of Into the Breach, a recent publication on information theft by Michael Santarcangelo. I can almost hear myself in this book; forget about the products, focus on the assets, find the asset owner. I am just about half-way through at this point – I highly recommend reading […]
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