If you are a service organization and your customers trust you with their data, you may need to pass a SOC 2 audit to sell your products.
Whether your customers demand an audit report from you or industry regulations require one, you may have to provide proof of SOC 2 compliance to demonstrate that the data you’ve been entrusted with is properly secured.
Ransomware is like the flu. Everybody knows about it, nobody wants it, and many try to prevent it, but it spreads anyways.
Complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) ensures that you have taken the necessary safeguard to secure payment card data, and it should be a goal for your organization. However, PCI DSS compliance doesn't ensure that all data is secure—so it isn't a stopping point.
A group of prominent investors aims to improve cybersecurity by building companies around new technologies for protecting data.
Comply. Compete.
Ignore either at your peril.
Whether it be the damages that could result from a data breach caused by lax security or the operational inefficiencies—and thus competitive disadvantages—that could be caused by cumbersome policies and procedures, your organization must mitigate risks on multiple fronts as you seek to satisfy regulators, customers, and stakeholders alike.
Recent advancements in technology have, in many ways, made our on-the-go lives easier and more flexible. But at the same time, our private data has become more and more vulnerable to data breaches.
That’s because of consumer preference, the frequency of online transactions, and the fact that private data storage regulations are only recently beginning to come under the magnifying glass and mature.
There is no denying that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a popular choice among companies these days. Businesses like to store their data and run their operations through AWS because of the convenience and performance that its cloud-based storage and services provide.
Security breach incidents have become as ubiquitous as Monday morning traffic. Occurrences appear to be getting more sophisticated in scale when it comes to the volume of data stolen and the financial impact to both enterprise and individuals.
If you were to just listen to the news, you would think that an organization only has to worry about hackers, malware, DDoS, and ransomware attacks. While the biggest threats are commonly from outside cyberattacks, these are not the only concerns a company faces. Companies need to recognize the other significant threat posed to an organization's critical assets: malicious and unmalicious insiders.