Dateline: May 19, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. For the past few weeks, we've shared startling statistics published in a blog at Information Week titled, Nearly 90% of organizations victim of data breaches. Many managers believe their security concerns are eliminated if they move to the cloud, because cloud providers will make … [Read more...]
Ransomware Succeeds Due To People-Oriented Mistakes
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Dateline: April 28, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Have you been the target of ransomware? Recently a post by Greg Slabodkin, the managing editor of Health Data Management, suggested that the epidemic of ransomware is not showing signs of slowing down in a post at Information Management titled, Ransomware epidemic will continue … [Read more...]
Cyber Resilience Planning
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Dateline: April 21, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Cybersecurity continues to be top of mind for many as story after story of breaches emerge. In an earlier Friday Wrap, we shared a thought that it's just a matter of time before your organization has a breach, and that's the new normal. Today we share another similar thought … [Read more...]
Cyber Security’s Weakest Link
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Dateline: April 14, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Keeping your information systems safe and cyber secure is a challenge under the best of circumstances. Bad actors abound, trying to steal data, disrupt systems, and general cause chaos. Building a secure environment is more than just getting the right technology in place. The … [Read more...]
The Importance of Promoting Cyber Resilience
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Dateline: March 17, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Cyber attacks are inevitable. As our world becomes increasing connected, the bad guys will continue to find ways to infiltrate our networks and our systems. Recently, leaders at the World Economic Forum discussed cybersecurity. A brief summary of the discussion, What … [Read more...]
IT Alone Cannot Protect Your Organization from Cyber Risks
March 10, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: March 10, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Cybersecurity is increasingly an organization-wide concern, and successful cybersecurity plans cover all aspects of the organization, and involve all levels of the staff. The World Economic Forum recently published an article, How to Prepare for the cyberattack that is coming to … [Read more...]
ROI is Not the Major Driver for Cybersecurity Investments
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Dateline: February 10, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. With the increased reliance on technology by enterprises of all types comes the increase concern of cyber security. Ironically, the ROI of security investments are not the key driver of investment in cybersecurity--the risk of a breach is. Kaspersky Labs published a report … [Read more...]
The Cyber Battleground is Inside, Not at the Perimeter
February 3, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: February 3, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Executives still have the wrong focus on how to manage cybersecurity. Recently Information Management published CEOs Reveal Cyber Naivete as Incidents Rise and Losses Mount where editor David Weldon wrote, While CEOs remain confident that their cyber strategies are well … [Read more...]
Creating a Safety Culture for Cybersecurity
January 27, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 27, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent Sloan Management Review article interviewing Professor Stuart Madnick, director of MIT’s Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (IC)³, pointed out how far away we are from protecting our organizations from cybersecurity … [Read more...]
Managing Cybersecurity is More Than Just Good Hardware and Software
January 20, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 20, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Continuing with our focus on cybersecurity, today's thought comes from a recent Sloan Management Review article interviewing Professor Stuart Madnick, director of MIT’s Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (IC)³. Professor Madnick … [Read more...]
