I
think training is the right choice.
Security
Awareness Training Top Priority for CISOs: Report
Thirty-five
percent of CISOs in the financial sector consider staff training to
be the top priority for cyber defense. Twenty-five percent
prioritize infrastructure upgrades and network defense.
..
The
FS-ISAC's 2018 Cybersecurity Trends Report (PDF)
notes a distinction in priorities based on the individual
organization's reporting structure. Where CISOs report into a
technical structure, such as the CIO, the priority is for
infrastructure upgrades, network defense and breach prevention.
Where they report into a non-technical function, such as the COO or
Legal, the priority is for staff training.
Not
sure what this buys the UK. Perhaps some diplomatic leverage?
U.K.
Officially Blames Russia for NotPetya Attack
British
Foreign Office Minister for Cyber Security Lord Tariq Ahmad said the
June 2017 NotPetya attack was launched by the Russian military and it
“showed a continued disregard for Ukrainian sovereignty.”
“The
Kremlin has positioned Russia in direct opposition to the West yet it
doesn’t have to be that way. We call upon Russia to be the
responsible member of the international community it claims to be
rather then secretly trying to undermine it,” the official stated.
… The
U.K. was also the first to officially
accuse North Korea of launching the WannaCry attack. The United
States, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand
followed suit several weeks later.
Gosh
Harvard, we’ve been saying that for years!
… we found that a good corporate privacy
policy can shield firms from the financial harm posed by a data
breach — by offering customers transparency and control over their
personal information — while a flawed policy can exacerbate the
problems caused by a breach. Together, this evidence is the first to
show that a firm’s close rivals are directly, financially affected
by its data breach and also to offer actionable solutions that could
save some companies hundreds of millions of dollars.
Interesting
article.
The Age of
Unregulated Social Media Is Over
… Last week, U.K. Members of Parliament
traveled to the United States to meet with experts on questions at
the intersection of technology, media and democracy ahead of a day
receiving testimony from technology executives in Washington DC.
Dubbed the “Inquiry on Fake News,” the panel produced seven hours
of pointed — sometimes heated — discussion on issues ranging from
the role of companies like Facebook and Twitter in enabling
propagandists, to questions about how recommendations systems can be
gamed by bad actors, to the problems of algorithmic bias.
Despite little clarity from either the politicians
or the executives on the specifics of what should be done, one thing
was abundantly clear: as far as the House of Commons members are
concerned, the age of unregulated social media is over.
Good
idea or bad?
Twitter's
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Live Stream Was Part Of A New
Initiative
Twitter is starting to show live, local news
broadcasts in a live streaming window next to its timeline during
major breaking news events.
Twitter's initiative to air these videos is
currently rolled out across the platform, a company spokesperson
confirmed to BuzzFeed News. The company will rely on a set of
partnerships with local news stations to select the footage.
On Wednesday, Twitter put the initiative into
action in a big way, streaming hours of footage from Miami's WSVN 7
next to the timelines of US users as the news station covered the
shooting
at Broward County's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in
Florida.
Fits with my Computer Security class discussion of
eDiscovery. Was this data stored in the US?
Rafia Shaikh reports:
Following Bill Gates comments yesterday that encouraged tech companies to share consumer data when the government comes calling to avoid future regulation, it appears at least the company’s rival is doing exactly the same. In potentially one of the first such incidents, Sony has coughed up PS4 data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on a user who was suspected of planning to fly from Kansas to the Middle East to join a terrorist organization.
The FBI warrant (link) mentions nine related search warrants (from Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, and others) that will help the agency get information from the suspect’s social media accounts and electronic devices, including his PlayStation 4.
Read more on WCCFTech.
via FourthAmendment.com
Might be interesting if you are planning your
argument... What are the hot buttons and how to push them?
U of M
crowdsourcing project transcribes Supreme Court justices’
handwritten notes
University
of Minnesota News: “…If you have ever wanted to be a fly on
the wall during deliberations by U.S. Supreme Court justices or
travel back in time to witness Supreme Court decisions, a new
crowdsourcing project led by researchers at the University of
Minnesota and Michigan State University allows you to do just that.
The project, named SCOTUS Notes, is the newest citizen science
project under the Zooniverse platform originated at the University of
Minnesota. Zooniverse, the world’s largest and most popular
people-powered online research platform, runs on support from
volunteers that now number more than 1.5 million. These volunteers
act as armchair scientists and archivists helping academic research
teams with their projects from the comfort of their own homes. In
this project, members of the public transcribe handwritten notes from
U.S. Supreme Court justices. Unlike members of Congress, justices
cast their votes in complete privacy during weekly conference
meetings. Only justices are allowed in the Chief Justice’s
conference room when they discuss, deliberate, and make initial
decisions on cases that focus on some of the nation’s most pressing
legal issues. The only record of what has been said, and by whom, is
provided by the handwritten personal notes the justices themselves
take during conference. These crucial documents detail the
discussions and debates that took place in thousands of cases
spanning multiple decades…”
Perspective. A look at that cloud thing we’re
all moving to.
Top cloud
providers 2018: How AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud,
Oracle, Alibaba stack up
… a few things to note: This list of public
cloud providers revolves around the service providers that offer
software-, platform- and infrastructure-as-a-service offerings.
There are many more cloud providers that specialize in some part of
the enterprise software stack.
Increasingly, companies will combine the large
public cloud providers along with a specialist.
Perspective. (And for those of us keeping score.)
Amazon
dethrones Microsoft to become the world’s third most valuable
company
Amazon stock climbed 2.6 percent Wednesday, giving
the company a market value of $702.5 billion and topping Microsoft’s
market cap for the first time. The online retailer now trails only
Apple and Google’s parent, Alphabet, as the most valuable companies
in the world.
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