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In this day and age, the risk of cybersecurity threats is becoming a concerning topic for organizations. Reducing the risk of data breach has become a top priority for many businesses. When it comes to minimizing risk, an often-overlooked area is third-party risk. Many organizations include an initial vetting process...
On April 2, 2021, it was confirmed that a malicious user published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free online. The information, spanning from users across the globe, includes phone numbers, user IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, and some email addresses. A...
An updated cybersecurity law that the IT organization (along with other college/university departments) will need to continue to integrate into its compliance programs, policies, and controls is the recent changes to New York’s General Business Law 899-aa and 899-bb (aka SHIELD Act). The compliance actions supporting this law have already...
The year 2020 will be forever remembered for the impacts of how the global pandemic forced the adoption of innovative production, logistics, and workforce solutions. Many best practices emerged from the experiences of COVID-19, we continue to learn that these new methods can pay significant dividends in 2021 and in...
In our increasingly digital world, individual’s personal information resides on hundreds, if not thousands, of servers across the globe resulting in a huge rise in identity theft. Defined as “the crime of obtaining the personal or financial information of another person to use their identity to commit fraud or deception,...
With many still reeling from the aftermath of the SolarWinds hack, enough dust has settled that we’ve started to ask the important questions: How did this happen? What can we do to prevent this in the future? And will it happen again? The good news is that this cyber attack...
This post originally appeared on Security Magazine. Ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information must be at the forefront of any business in today’s environment. While many think they are up to this task, there’s a lot that goes into protecting data. Cyberattacks and data security breaches are at...
The Department of Homeland Security has issued this emergency directive. “DHS DIRECTIVE 21-01 – Treat all hosts monitored by the SolarWinds Orion monitoring software as compromised by threat actors and assume that further persistence mechanisms have been deployed.” Visit the DHS Website and read about the directive. If your company...
FoxPointe Solutions has been closely following the major data breach that was recently announced involving Cit0day, as well as the subsequent analyses to accurately identify the true risk levels that could be associated with it. Following the emergence of updated forensic reports, it has been determined that this breach could...
Like almost every organization doing business in 2020, HITRUST® has had to adopt some changes due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. As the year progressed and we were able to see the long-term impact that COVID-19 has caused, we began to see changes in guidelines and options for HITRUST-related assessments. Here...
