Luke Irwin Archive
The Cyber Kill Chain is a popular framework that’s used for understanding and responding to information security incidents. It outlines the steps that organizations can take to trace the stages of a cyber attack, from a criminal’s reconnaissance efforts to …
The US government has released a national cybersecurity strategy that will shift the burden of responsibility for data protection towards software vendor and service providers. “We must rebalance the responsibility to defend cyberspace by shifting the burden for cybersecurity away …
It’s a question that’s being asked alarmingly often among organizations these days: how do we respond to this data breach? Cyber crime has skyrocketed in recent years, with businesses processes increasingly being conducted online, which has opened the door for …
GoDaddy is investigating a series of attacks on its infrastructure that it first learned about following customer complaints late last year. Website owners said that their sites were redirecting visitors to random domains in what later transpired to be a …
When an organization suffers a cyber attack, two types of judgment soon follow: a regulatory review and a public trial, with online commentators condemning the victim’s security practices and its ineffective response. But Reddit has flipped the script, being universally …
Organizations in the U.S. spent $9.44 million on average responding to cyberattacks last year, according to a Ponemon Institute report. This figure is more than double the global average, which leads us to ask why things are so bad in the …
This Saturday marks Data Privacy Day, an international event that raises awareness about the risks when sharing our personal information online. Although many of us are broadly aware that organizations often our personal data can used in a variety of …
ISO 27001 is an ideal resource for organizations looking to bolster their data protection practices and mitigate the risk of cyber attacks. The information security standard contains a framework for implementing an ISMS (information security management system) to ensure the …
DraftKings recently confirmed that it suffered a data breach affecting the personal data of 67,995 customers. In a notification filed with the Maine Attorney General’s Office, the sports betting firm revealed that cyber criminals accessed customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, …
After years of negotiation, there could soon be a new legal framework that enables personal data to flow freely between the U.S. and the E.U. The announcement comes as the European Commission confirmed that it had begun the process of …
