Know
anyone who could use this information? (Architecture as security
enabler)
Why
are governments so vulnerable to ransomware attacks?
Emisoft
estimates that
over 2019, ransomware attacks impacted at least 948 government
agencies, educational entities, and healthcare providers. Analysis
conducted by Recorded
Future suggests
that 81 successful ransomware attacks took place against US
government bodies across the year, and these incidents would often
have a knock-on effect of impacting high numbers of towns and cities
in their local areas.
Florida
County, Louisiana,
New
Orleans,
and Texas are only a handful of regions where ransomware has caused
severe disruption. If ransomware infiltrates a government network,
this can lead to the shutdown or a loss of access to core government
systems, thereby impacting local community services.
IBM
research has already suggested that many US local and state
government agencies are "overconfident”
in their attitude towards malware and cybersecurity incidents, and
now, Deloitte further implies that governments are simply not doing
enough.
On
Wednesday, Deloitte released
a report,
"Ransoming government: What state and local governments can do
to break free from ransomware attacks," which explores how these
attacks are able to take place -- and what government officials
should be doing to tackle the ransomware challenge.
… State
and local governments will often pay up as the most logical course of
action rather than attempt to restore systems through backups -- if
this is even possible -- or face the possibility of weeks and weeks
relying on pen-and-paper records. Cyberinsurance may cover a portion
of payouts, and unfortunately, not paying up can sometimes prove to
be significantly more costly.
Best
Practice: encrypt your data.
Dutch
government loses hard drives with data of 6.9 million registered
donors
The
Dutch government said it lost two external hard disk storage devices
that contained the personal data of more than 6.9 million organ
donors.
The
hard drives stored electronic copies of all donor forms filed with
the Dutch Donor Register between February 1998 to June 2010,
officials from the Dutch Minister of Health, Wellness, and Sport said
earlier this week.
The
disks were last used in 2016 and were placed inside a secure vault
for storage, as Dutch authorities rotated to using newer drives.
… Officials
never said if the data contained on the hard drives was encrypted or
not. [Suggests they do not
know. Bob]
An
infographic. Perhaps a picture will save you 1000 words?
Cybersecurity
Trends to Know in 2020
… This
infographic from Paradyn lays out the top cybersecurity trends you
should know about in 2020 including:
- GDPR
- AI-powered security solutions
- Cloud security
- IoT security
- Next-gen authentication technology
Scroll
down to the infographic to discover more about the latest
cybersecurity trends today!
This
should be obvious, but is more likely never thought of…
The
haphazard response to COVID-19 demonstrates the value of enterprise
risk management
Just
12% of more than 1,500 respondents believe their businesses are
highly prepared for the impact of coronavirus, while 26% believe that
the virus will have little or no impact on their business, according
to a survey by Gartner.
“This
lack of confidence shows that many organizations approach risk
management in an outdated and ineffective manner,” said Matt
Shinkman, vice president in the Gartner Risk and Audit practice.
“The best-prepared organizations can expect to enjoy many business
advantages over their less-prepared peers as they minimize the
disruption caused by the coronavirus.”
A
bit of background.
https://onezero.medium.com/this-is-the-ad-clearview-ai-used-to-sell-your-face-to-police-8997c2a6f0a8
This
Is the Ad Clearview AI Used to Sell Your Face to Police
Clearview
AI emailed advertisements to police departments in August 2019 with
the subject line “How To Solve Crimes Instantly With Face Search
Technology,” using the Fraternal Order of Police’s online
platform FOPConnect.
“Clearview
is like Google Search for faces,” the ad copy reads. “It only
takes one photo of a suspect’s face, one quick tap on your cell
phone or computer, and one second of search time. Get results from
mug shots, social media, and other publicly available sources.”
Another
reason for my students to write every week.
Thought
leadership drives trust in cyber-leaders, sharing best practice
Senior
security executives in UK prefer to work with organisations that
publish thought leadership over ones that don’t - and are willing
to pay a premium.
Nearly
85 percent of senior executives from UK businesses across telecom, IT
financial services, retail and the public sector prefer to work with
organisations that publish thought leadership over ones that don’t,
according to a survey
by
Code Red.
More
than 80 percent of the respondents said that thought leadership
material issued by a company is a good indicator of the type and
calibre of that organisation’s thinking. Nearly 75 percent were
willing to pay a premium to work with a thought leader, said the
survey.
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trying?
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