What 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…
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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,…
DetailsData-Exfiltration Prevention Startup enSilo Raises $10M in Series A Round
enSilo, which provides a data-exfiltration prevention platform, on Tuesday announced that it had raised $10M in Series A funding with Lightspeed Venture Partners leading the round and existing investor Carmel…
DetailsA CISO Checklist – 11 Tips to Get Ready for Your Much Needed Vacation
Do you know how Merriam-Webster defines vacation? Believe it or not – this is what it says: – A period of time that a person spends away from home, school, or…
DetailsThe 20 Critical Controls – A Practical Security Strategy – Part 2
In my last article, I talked about using the 20 Critical Controls as a practical security strategy. I showed how the controls map to a wide variety of international and…
DetailsWhy Did the Chicken Cross the Road? And Wearable Devices
Why did the chicken cross the road? To add 200 more steps to his daily wearable device count! But did the chicken ever stop to think about the impact to his…
DetailsUS Government Cyber-Breach Act of Chinese, Reports
Two cyber breaches of US government systems that potentially compromised personally identifiable information of at least four million present and former federal employees is suspected to be the work of…
DetailsLessons from the Sony Hack
The recent Sony breach attributed to North Korea is only the latest in a series of Sony hacks that trace back to 2005. Most news stories point to the recent…
DetailsCompliance Beyond Black and White
It’s now commonplace to read that security means more than checking off boxes on a compliance checklist. A robust approach to security includes trying to fill the gaps between the…
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