Government employees at the City of Yonkers were denied access to their computers last week, after cyber criminals launched a ransomware attack. The city said that it refused to pay the ransom and would restore as much data as possible …
Howard University was forced to cancel classes this week after its network was infected with ransomware. The Washington D.C.-based college said that its IT team detected “unusual activity” on its systems on Friday, and shut down to investigate the situation. …
ISO 27701 is a relatively new standard in the ISO 27000 family. It was introduced to help organizations tackle data privacy alongside their data protection requirements. The standard essentially bolts privacy processing controls on to ISO 27001, creating a PIMS …
If you start making forays into the world of information security and management systems, you will quickly stumble across the term ‘ISMS’. ISMS stands for “information security management system.” It’s a documented management system that consists of a set of …
If you’re trying to advance your cybersecurity career, there’s good news. There are many different roles in cybersecurity, and organizations are in desperate need of skilled personnel, with more than 4 million unfilled positions around the globe. But what cybersecurity …
Last month, the Biden administration announced further plans to protect organizations from the growing threat of ransomware, and to punish the criminals responsible for such attacks. The new initiatives includes a State Department program that offers rewards of up to …
Data privacy laws in the United States are notoriously tricky. There are a patchwork of industry-specific federal laws and state legislations whose scope and jurisdiction vary. And to complicate matters further, each state has its own requirements for disclosing security …
ISO 27001 is the international standard that describes best practice for an ISMS (information security management system). Achieving accredited certification to ISO 27001 demonstrates that your organization is following information security best practice, and delivers an independent, expert assessment of whether …
The health care sector is the sector worst-affected by data breaches, a US government report has revealed. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services’ 2020 Healthcare Breach Report, security incidents in the hospitals and medical clinics resulted …
It’s no secret that health care is one of the most vulnerable sectors when it comes to cyber crime. Medical records come with higher black market values than other information like credit card numbers. As a result, cyber criminals are …
