George V. Hulme
George V. Hulme
Five Tips On Training Staff to Avoid Coronavirus Scams
There has been a steady rise in COVID-19 scams and attacks since the novel coronavirus pandemic went global in February. Traditional cybercriminals, as well as APT groups, have been exploiting the situation and will likely continue until COVID-19 is no longer a front-page news item. The attack techniques look familiar: ... Read More
Third Parties Prove Persistent Healthcare Data Risk
According to the Protenus Breach Barometer report, there’s been a steady increase in healthcare related data breaches over recent years. Last year, there were 572 healthcare data breaches within U.S.-based healthcare industry. That’s up from 450 in 2016. When it comes to patient records leaked, they rose as well, reaching ... Read More
Gartner: Coronavirus Exposes Outdated Risk Management Practices
Enterprise governance, risk, and compliance programs are designed, in important part, to ensure that companies stay on track and manage risk and uncertainty. Many organizations, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, are now finding whether their risk management and cybersecurity plans will work as intended ... Read More
As CIOs See Expanding Roles in Customer Experience, Security Must Keep Pace
Let’s face it: CIOs are quite busy as they drive forward with their digital transformation efforts, build their DevOps teams, and continue their work to ensure that their business-technology systems are aligned with business needs — and somewhere within all of that work they have to find a way to ... Read More
As coronavirus spreads, attackers won’t let up on healthcare systems
As healthcare providers and public health agencies around the world find themselves pressed at capacity to deliver care during the novel coronavirus pandemic, attackers show no signs of mercy as they still target healthcare websites and IT systems — further stressing a system already taxed as patients seek critical care ... Read More
Survey Shows Most Organizations Plan to Embrace Zero Trust, yet Remain Unconfident in Ability to Implement
One of the biggest weaknesses in any environment is maintaining effective authentication and authorization controls ... Read More
Financial Account Security Causing the Greatest Angst, Survey Says
Since 2007, security services provider Unisys has measured the level of security concerns among consumers. Unisys claims its “Security Index” is the longest-running snapshot of consumer views regarding security from around the world ... Read More
Majority of Developers are Concerned over the state of Their Application Security
While software developers are showing signs of high apprehension when it comes to the security of their software, their organizations however have considerable work ahead of them getting developers the tools they need to succeed ... Read More
Six Signs You have a Great Cybersecurity Culture
What is security culture? There’s lots of talk about how important security culture is to a security program, but security culture is a nebulous concept to attempt to define — and harder still to measure. It’s also, apparently, difficult to achieve: a survey from the IT governance professional’s organization ISACA ... Read More
Examining Risk in the Corporate Environment
Of all the possible concerns global businesses can have, cyber security threats are at the top of the list, according to recent research by insurance firm The Travelers Companies ... Read More