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You wouldn’t leave your home without making sure the door was shut and locked behind you. You wouldn’t install an alarm system that doesn’t sound when a burglar enters. So, why would you not take the same precautions for your company? Consistently testing the effectiveness of application secur ....

Last week Bob Maley, Chief Security Officer at Black Kite and I led a Fireside Chat discussion on the current regulatory landscape regarding privacy and security. While state laws continue to advance and there is momentum for a Federal U.S. Privacy Regulation, the update by the Federal Trade Commiss ....

Paying more at the gas pump? Are those groceries costing you more than even a few weeks ago? Are the raw materials your company relies upon costing more? Are you debating or actually raising your prices to your customers? Are your stakeholders nervous? An Unsettled Economy This is clearly an uns ....

Technology is all around us. Smartphones, smart watches, cars, computers, refrigerators, and cameras have become an enormous part of our everyday lives. These introductions have challenged us to constantly adapt. We are living in (and raising families in) an evolving technological society. As a p ....

There’s FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and then there’s FIM (File Integrity Monitoring). You do not want to miss out on understanding what FIM is all about and why the FBI (Federal Bureau Of Investigation) is concerned. The FBI Cyberdivision recently released a Flash Report reporting that cyber a ....

From natural disasters to software failures and cyberattacks, disasters bring considerable risk to businesses. While there is no way to prevent an unforeseen event, you can minimize the ensuing risks by working closely with third parties – those who provide your organization goods and services, to ....

What is Real-Time Bidding (RTB)? Real-Time Bidding (RTB) is a technology operating behind the scenes on all websites and apps, tracking everything you look at, no matter how private or sensitive. And, RTB records where you go. Every day, RTB shares data about you with a host of companies continuous ....

Shared Assessments CEO Andrew Moyad had a quite a head start getting up to speed after stepping into his current role in February. Moyad’s 25-plus years in risk management and information security includes leadership roles in vendor risk management at Blackstone, one of the world’s top global as ....

Madonna entered the metaverse last week when she released her hyped non-fungible token (NFT) art series. Over the weekend, the “Material Girl” acquired an immaterial (but collectible) Bored Ape #4988 with NFTs equal to 180 ether or $564K at time of settlement. Top-notch celebs have been explo ....

Is cyber complacency the biggest cyberthreat of all? It seems that it is raining cyberattacks as the methods for deploying attacks grow easier and more accessible. Malicious subscription-based services such as ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) are prevalent. And, a recent launch of malware-as-a-servic ....