Security Audit Archives

Cyber Insurance

DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION NEED CYBER INSURANCE?

News about the damage associated with the Sony breach keep coming, and is most likely going to reach new heights over the Christmas break. Meanwhile, criminals keep conducting immensely successful hack attacks against huge brands that should have the financial assets and talent to protect against breaches. Has this risk management gone very wrong — accepting the occasional hack attack as a cost of doing business — or are we fighting a war we can’t win? We know that data/networks can and should be secured more effectively. While no security system will ever be 100% bulletproof, there are glaring bad practice issues in all of the recent high-profile breaches. We’ll look at why this might be happening in a follow-up

BAI Security December 17, 2014

BAI Security Audit

THE NEXT BIG ADVANCE IN BREACH DETECTION & PREVENTION

Sears Holdings Corp. announced in March of this year (2014), it was investigating a possible security breach after a series of cyberattacks on other retailers have exposed the data of millions of consumers. The security review was still at an early stage as Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ)’s digital forensics unit and the U.S. Secret Service sift through the company’s computer data to look for traces of hackers and the extent of any incursion, according to two people familiar with the matter. Sears, which was already working to reverse 28 straight quarters of declining sales, could be faced with fighting a possible hacking attack with shoppers on edge after a flurry of retail data breaches tarnished the image of merchants including

BAI Security April 1, 2014