The 5 Elements to Effectively Managing HIPAA Compliance
Managing Patient Data (PHI) Sprawl In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) created an electronic data interchange that health-care providers and other related organizations are required to use for electronic transactions. The HIPAA Privacy regulations require health care
Phishing and Wire Transfer Scams are Victimizing Corporate Executives
“CEO Fraud” or “CEO Fraud Phishing” Doubled Over the Past Year CEO Fraud is a scam in which cyber criminals either spoof or literally take over company email accounts to impersonate executives in order to try and trick an employee in
How to Improve Your SOCs Effectiveness – Part 1
How to Improve Security Operation Center (SOC) Effectiveness – Part 1 So many articles and blog posts have been written on SOCs, how they are structured, what their mission and purpose is, and of course how to improve their effectiveness. I
Why and How DNS Hijacking is Increasing
The IDC Global DNS Threat Report released last summer revealed that 82% of organizations were victims of DNS attacks with each suffering an average of 9 DNS attacks which was an increase of 34%. In addition, over 63% of the
Are Organizations Ready for The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)?
Why Organizations Aren’t Ready for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect on January 1st, and many organizations haven’t started preparing to comply with the legislation. In fact, the state of California itself
2020 Top 5 Cyber Security Predictions
Top 5 Cyber Security Predictions for 2020 In conversations with industry analysts, our customers, combing through the statistics like Comparitech's breach data and ultimately talking amongst ourselves we came up with 5 IT security predictions for 2020 that may not be
The Best IT Security Blog Posts in 2019
The Top 5 Cybersecurity Blog Posts in Our Library - 2019 We have added 46 Blog Posts to our library over the year or so and wanted to rank the most read for your convenience. So, we used Google Analytics and
The Benefits of Using a SIEM to Improve IT Security
A SIEM’s Role in Network Security Analysis and Monitoring We put together a series of blog posts that deal with Network Security Design and Log Monitoring that are hopefully providing you clear, straightforward information about the real basics of Network Security.
Why Log Monitoring and Management is Critical to IT Security
Why Log Monitoring and Management is Critical to IT Security In our last blog post titled “The Fundamentals of Network Security Analysis and Monitoring” we discussed active versus passive security devices, flow analysis versus packet analysis, and several of the security
Magecart Campaigns are Targeting e-Commerce Websites
Magecart is Threatening Online Businesses this Holiday Season As we suggested in an earlier blog post, there have been 5,183 breaches from the first nine months of 2019 which exposed 7.9 billion records, both all-time records. The number of breaches