PwC’s survey of over 800 Compliance Officers was “designed to give corporate compliance officers benchmarking data to help them understand common industry practices today and plan for more effective, more efficient compliance operations in the future.” The report entitled “PwC State of Compliance Study 2016” highlighted these legal…

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My Guest Blogger Eddie Block (CISSP, CIPM, CIPP/G, CISA, CEH) is a senior attorney in Gardere’s Litigation Group and member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Legal Services Team who focuses on all aspects of information cyber security, including credentialing functions, firewall and IDS deployment and monitoring, and penetration testing, and…

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Experian reported that the “healthcare sector may continue to be the focal point for hackers as medical identity theft remains lucrative and easy for cyber criminals to exploit.”  The November 28, 2016 report entitled “2017 Fourth Annual Data Breach Industry Forecast” included this takeaway advice:

As attackers shift…

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Rest assured that cyber criminals read Cisco’s report that cloud usage will grow significantly based on the scope of “big data and associated Internet of Things” with expectations that cloud usage as of 2015 at about “3.9 zettabytes (ZB) per year…to 14.1 ZB per year by 2020.” The November 2016…

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Business Insurance reported that “Cyber criminals have remotely attacked cash machines in more than a dozen countries across Europe this year, using malicious software that forces machines to spit out cash.”  The November 21, 2016 report entitled “Hackers target ATMs across Europe as cyber threat grows” cites Russian…

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Of the 2,000 IT and IT security professionals surveyed by the Ponemon Institute “75% of respondents admit they do not have a formal cyber security incident response plan (CSIRP) that is applied consistently across the organization” and 51% rated cyber resilience as “very important or essential to achieving a strong…

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Infoworld reported that “IBM Security is currently in the middle of a year-long research project working with eight universities to help train Watson to tackle cybercrime.”  The November 15, 2016 article entitled “How IBM’s Watson will change cybersecurity” includes a reference to IBM’s Security Intelligence comments by Diana…

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GIGO is very old news and is highlighted in IDC’s white paper which stressed that the “outcome of any big data analytics project, however, is only as good as the quality of the data being used.”  The January 2015 white paper entitled “Big Data, Bad Data, Good Data: The…

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