Data audits aren’t just best cybersecurity practice – they are New York law When news of a data breach breaks, the fear that looms largest on consumers’ minds is whether any financial information was compromised. If the company that was attacked is in the financial sector, that fear climbs to even greater heights. Credit card details, password information, bank account data, trading partners – that’s just the tip of the proverbial iceberg of sensitive data that’s stored and regularly accessed by financial services companies on private and public networks. Unfortunately, this valuable
The ABCs of Annual Vulnerability Testing
Is your organization utilizing annual vulnerability testing to protect against cyber attacks? With the new year upon us, it’s a great time to take an inventory of all aspects of your business, including cybersecurity. Sure, you may have done a sufficient job in 2017 of protecting critical data from cybercriminals, but each day brings new challenges in the realm of IT security. For this reason, it’s best to perform annual vulnerability testing to ensure your network infrastructure can handle any potential attacks. What is annual vulnerability testing? Annual vulnerability tests are checks
Your Company Got Hacked. Now What?
Follow these steps on the road to recovery after a data breach Cybercrimes are happening at an alarming rate: One in four companies can expect to suffer a cyber-attack, costing an average of more than $7 million for every significant breach in the U.S., according to the Ponemon Institute’s 2017 Cost of Data Breach Study. Small businesses have lesser costs – averaging $36,000 to $50,000+ per breach – but many of them can’t afford this number. Last year, ransomware attacks on businesses increased from once every two minutes to once every 40 seconds. It’s just a matter of time until one of
An ACE up Your Sleeve: How the Advanced Cyber Event Appliance Monitors Networks and Detects Events
ACE from CyberGuard360 constantly reviews data to spot threats It’s no longer a matter of if your business will be exposed to some type of cyberattack, but rather when and how. Organizations looking to protect themselves from the more than 1,000 breaches that occurred in 2016 – up 40% from 2015 – need to think proactively about how to monitor and react to suspicious events that could be the first signs of a cyber attack. This reality demands aggressive preparation, identifying your most sensitive information and where it resides. Segmenting this data allows companies to monitor it across