Security analytics company SparkCognition has announced that it has closed $6 million in a Series B funding from CME Ventures and Verizon Ventures with existing investors taking part. Texas-based SparkCognition…
DetailsDavid M. Brown reported on April 1, 2016 in Data Breach Notification Laws that the State of Tennessee has passed and received the Governor’s signature on revisions to its breach…
DetailsPeople love to predict the next must-have digital device, from personal drones to augmented-reality contact lenses. But what if the next big device isn’t one single technology? What if it’s…
DetailsIt has been well documented across business and technical publications that we are entering the digital business era, which creates new ways of doing business. This type of evolutionary step has…
DetailsThis seems to be the time of year that everyone is holding a security conference. I will be attending eight from January through the end of April (and speaking at…
DetailsThird-party vendors are essential to businesses big and small, national and global. Outsourcing is big. Offshoring is big. You can’t just move or outsource part of your business halfway across…
DetailsConsider for a moment the business lines that drive your company’s revenue. If the president of that business unit had an 85% assurance that a new business venture would be…
DetailsThere were two security incidents over the past week that drew a lot of attention. The first was the ransomware attack against Medstar, a health system based out of Columbia, MD.…
DetailsI tell users all the time “Forget everything you learned in Kindergarten.” It always gets a laugh, gets their attention and gets my point across. It’s not nice to share…
DetailsWe are seeing that in quite a few organizations the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) role is going through a period of transition. Leading organizations that didn’t have a CISO…
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