Tag: Security Risk

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

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Breach

TARGET CORP DATA BREACH ISSUE MAY BE SPREADING…

One of the largest retail hacks in the United States, the breach on Target caught the attention of the world. The event itself proved how common these types of attacks are no matter the size of an organization. Just recently, the restaurant chain P.F. Chang’s China Bistro found themselves in a similar position as Target. Unfortunately, they had been too late and the payments breach had taken place before they were able to discover any suspicious activity. The breach had led to payment card fraud and subsequent poor headlines for the chain. Once an organization has a breach it must spend a great deal of money to launch an investigation as to what happened. There’s a long list of negative

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