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Mitigate Cybersecurity Risks in Education Don’t hesitate to develop and implement a cybersecurity response plan this school year. These days, it’s more likely than not that when you open your daily newspaper or scroll through your newsfeed, you’ll see coverage of a cyberattack impacting both businesses and consumers. Recently, a...

International Conference on Cyber Security In July, I had the opportunity to attend the International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS), a meeting held every other year at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus. This gathering offers enterprise risk management, cybersecurity law enforcement and private sector professionals from throughout the world a...

Windows Update Microsoft is currently urging Windows 10 users to update their systems to address severe vulnerabilities. Despite the warning, many Windows users will undoubtedly be infected by malware exploiting these weaknesses in the system. Here are four things all Windows users need to know about this imperative update. The...

Data Breach Legislation As cyber threats evolve and grow, it’s not a matter of if a cyberattack will occur but when – or worse, has it already happened, and you just don’t know it? As a result of the ever-changing technology landscape and the increasing frequency of breaches, the New...

Cybersecurity With the increasing number of security and data breaches being identified, cybersecurity has gained global and local attention. Increased emphasis and scrutiny from regulators, including the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), will be bringing cybersecurity awareness to the forefront of annual audits and reviewing every day risk management...

Data Breach Report IBM and the Ponemon Institute recently released their annual Cost of a Data Breach report and found, not surprisingly, that the frequency and cost of data breaches are continuing to rise. The survey was performed over a 12-month period and included feedback from more than 470 companies...

SOC Reporting 101 The importance of vendor management continues to rise across all industries, especially given the large growth in outsourcing functions to a third party. According to recent information security studies, third parties are the number one security risk to financial services and 60 percent of all targeted attacks...