breach

Is a Ransomware Attack a Reportable Data Breach?

| | data access, Data breach, ddos
One question that vexes security engineers, incident responders and lawyers is whether a ransomware attack constitutes a reportable data breach under any of the various data breach disclosure laws, regulations or other ...
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The Importance of Implementing an Information Security Policy That Everyone Understands

Information security (IS) and/or cybersecurity (cyber) are more than just technical terms. They’re the processes, practices and policy that involve people, services, hardware, and data. In particular, IS covers how people approach ...
access

Access Governance Helps Ensure Network Security Compliance

Protecting your company’s priceless data means making sure of two things: that the right people have access to the correct files and applications, and that the wrong people don’t have access to ...
Security Boulevard

Understanding Single Sign On as a Means of Identity Access Management

I usually spend my mornings doing some reading and enjoying my coffee. On this one particular morning, I noticed that I had received an email from a gaming company I had created ...
cybersecurity

Best of 2019: Privacy Regs Changing the Face of Cybersecurity

As we close out 2019, we at Security Boulevard wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the second in our weeklong series of the Best of ...
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DataCamp Implements Partial Password Reset After Data Security Incident

DataCamp Implements Partial Password Reset After Data Security Incident

Online data science learning platform DataCamp implemented a password reset for some of its users potentially affected by a data security incident. According to a statement published on its website, DataCamp discovered ...

How To Leverage Data Access Analytics for Effective Breach Detection

Detecting and preventing data breaches is a challenge for most, if not all, enterprises. In fact, according to a study released in 2017, 78% of all CISOs are concerned that data breaches ...