Tag: CEO

Fixing information security to effectively battle risks

Maria Florio July 12, 2016 No Comments

Cybersecurity spending continues to grow. Gartner predicts spending to go from $75.4 billion to $101 billion by 2018. However, research also shows that organizations aren’t effectively investing their cybersecurity spending...

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A simple solution to incident response times and rising business costs

Maria Florio July 5, 2016 No Comments

The Business Continuity Institute recently reported that two thirds of organizations surveyed had experienced at least one cyber incident in the past twelve months and that 15% had experienced at…

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The secret solution to ransomware that nobody’s talking about

Maria Florio June 28, 2016 No Comments

There’s been a lot of talk around ransomware lately and for good reason; but of the solutions provided to this growing threat, there's one that is going ignored (even though…

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CEOs can do something about rising data breach costs

Maria Florio June 21, 2016 No Comments

What should business executives know about the recent Cost of a Data Breach study sponsored by IBM and conducted by the Ponemon Institute? The first takeaway to stand out is…

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Why businesses will fail if they don’t learn to adapt with information security

Maria Florio June 16, 2016 No Comments

Different roles within a business require different skillsets; and for the longest time the CIO’s role entailed technology only, or at the very least, it was viewed as a tech…

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Is Your Healthcare Business Adhering to HIPAA Regulations?

Maria Florio June 8, 2016 No Comments

Industry studies have found that healthcare organizations are still not prepared for breach; but when it comes to meeting HIPAA compliance they can't opt out. One of the areas of…

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Hidden security risks that cost businesses a fortune

Maria Florio May 31, 2016 No Comments

When businesses think of security risks, they usually think of network vulnerabilities or BYOD risks; but when it comes to how cybercriminals can breach a company, there are many more…

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The real reason why organizations aren’t hiring CISOs

Maria Florio May 24, 2016 No Comments

If you keep an eye out on the latest infosec news, you’re most likely aware of the talk around CISOs and the gap organizations have in filling the position. One…

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Study finds little to no improvement in healthcare data security six years later

Maria Florio May 17, 2016 No Comments

A recent study by the Ponemon Institute finds that healthcare continues to be a huge target for cyberattack; and as it stands right now, healthcare providers and business associates (BAs)…

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Verizon data security study shows that companies are missing the mark

Maria Florio May 10, 2016 No Comments

The recently released annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) provides quite a bit of insights into the state of security and why breaches take place. Business executives and IT…

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