OPM Breach: Why Doing the Basics is Not Easy
The recent Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach may be the largest breach of Federal records ever. With the resignation of OPM Director Katherine Archuleta over the compromise of the newly…
DetailsOPM Director Katherine Archuleta Resigns
The director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Katherine Archuleta, has resigned, according to reports. Archuleta stepped down one day after it was revealed that earlier reported cyber attacks had resulted in…
DetailsAre We Painting Ourselves into a Technological Corner? The NYSE, United Airlines and WSJ Tech Glitches
It was a bad day for the Internet. At some time that morning, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) shut down, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) web site broke and the United Airlines…
DetailsSafeBreach Raises $4 million In First Funding Round
Cybersecurity startup SafeBreach has raised $4 million in its first round of funding led by Sequoia Capital with additional funding from serial entrepreneur investor Shlomo Kramer, according to reports. Israel-based…
DetailsAfterthoughts: Big Data and Us Little People
The original series was written in a frenzy. Aggregating is the inverse of broadcasting. Aggregation is biased towards anonymity. Being the subject of a data point is a matter of…
DetailsLawyers Gone Wild – Document Preservation Requests Are Out of Control
I don’t know how many of the readers out there have gotten to deal with the joy of document preservation, but let me tell you, it is not a lot…
DetailsIs Your Identity and Access Management Fit for Purpose?
In the old days, identity and access management (IAM) was a mainly internal affair; employees accessing applications, all safely behind a firewall. OK, perhaps the odd remote user, but they…
DetailsThe Most Important Element of Information Security Success
As a CISO, I am often asked, “What is the key component to the success of an Information Security organization?” Too often, we dwell on the failures or gaps, and…
DetailsWhat Is Privacy?
What is privacy? This is a central question to answer, because a conception of privacy underpins every attempt to address it and protect it. Every court that holds that something…
DetailsHow to Turn 4 Million Into 18 Million
The story about the Office of Personnel Management getting hacked this week was, unfortunately, not a big surprise to anyone in the security world. How it got hacked, by phishing,…
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