SEC Stresses Data Security After Settlement with Morgan Stanley

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) told financial firms they must take data security more seriously in the wake of a settlement with Morgan Stanley over the theft of customer data by a former employee. In 2015, the employee transferred information from approximately 730,000 client accounts to his personal server. He copied names, addresses, account numbers, investment information and other data to his home computer so he could work on it. He did this...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) told financial firms they must take data security more seriously in the wake of a settlement with Morgan...

Recently ProMedica Bixby and Herrick Hospitals contacted 3,472 patients informing them that their private medical records had been improperly accessed by seven employees. As is standard practice with the breach of patient information, patients received letters from ProMedica explaining the situation, the hospital’s action plan to prevent additional breaches and offering a full year of free credit protection monitoring. The hospital also reported this incident of an insider threat to the U.S. Department of Health...

Recently ProMedica Bixby and Herrick Hospitals contacted 3,472 patients informing them that their private medical records had been improperly accessed by seven employees. As...

Ron Arden, Vice President and COO of Fasoo, Inc., participated in a panel discussion on cyber security priorities in the finance industry at FinCyberSec 2016 at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ on June 1, 2016. Ron was joined by Alan Brill, Senior Managing Director from Kroll, and Michael Frank, President of Secure Business Strategies. The panel was moderated by Dr. Paul Rohmeyer, who organized the conference. The first topic of discussion addressed...

Ron Arden, Vice President and COO of Fasoo, Inc., participated in a panel discussion on cyber security priorities in the finance industry at FinCyberSec...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will implement Digital Rights Management (DRM) software to prevent unauthorized redistribution of digital information. This is in reaction to security incidents where departing employees accidentally took sensitive files on portable media. According to numerous studies, trusted insiders pose a greater risk to sensitive information than hackers and cybercriminals. I applaud the FDIC for taking this key initiative to proactively protect and control its most sensitive information. DRM will...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will implement Digital Rights Management (DRM) software to prevent unauthorized redistribution of digital information. This is in reaction...

There is a lot happening lately in the financial sector to help stem the tide of constant data breaches. This week a financial industry coalition in the US is promoting a campaign called “Stop The Data Breaches” to encourage people to get their members of congress to pass The Data Security Act of 2015 (H.R. 2205 and S. 961). The effort is backed by seven trade groups, including the American Bankers Association, the Consumer...

There is a lot happening lately in the financial sector to help stem the tide of constant data breaches. This week a financial industry...

While everyone still draws attention to the need for protection from cyber-attacks and the need for firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, and similar tools, recent highly publicized breaches have been raising awareness on weaknesses in software developed and used. The market is now forced to focus on how to identify and remediate vulnerabilities within applications themselves as things like buffer overruns, SQL injections, cross-site scripting, hard-coded passwords, memory leaks, uninitialized variables, division by zero, and...

While everyone still draws attention to the need for protection from cyber-attacks and the need for firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, and similar tools, recent...

On Thursday May 12, 2016, the Congressional Subcommittee on Science, Space and Technology held a special hearing in Room 2318 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing addressed if Americans can trust their private banking information is secure by relying on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). During the session, lawmakers stated that the FDIC has a long history of cyber-security incidents and that it is failing to safeguard private banking information of...

On Thursday May 12, 2016, the Congressional Subcommittee on Science, Space and Technology held a special hearing in Room 2318 of the Rayburn House...

UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital has made the news very recently as one of the latest healthcare environments that had a data breach. While on the surface this news appears to be just another healthcare data breach, there is something very different about it; the breach occurred over a span of seven years and was only recently discovered and reported. A “former employee” accessed 1,620 patient records that contained personal information and may have seen patients’ names,...

UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital has made the news very recently as one of the latest healthcare environments that had a data breach. While on the surface...

Bill Blake, President of Fasoo, Inc., spoke to members of the Western NY Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) at the Hilton Double Tree Hotel in Rochester, NY on May 10, 2016. Bill delivered a presentation on “Closing the Threat Gap – A 21st Century Approach to Minimizing Risk” to this annual event and showed attendees how to use Fasoo’s enterprise digital rights management to protect sensitive information from insider threats and external...

Bill Blake, President of Fasoo, Inc., spoke to members of the Western NY Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) at the Hilton Double...

Protected Health Information (PHI) security and patient privacy are major areas of concern for today’s health care providers, insurers, and their business partners. With each passing month, we are witnessing major new data breach incidents in the news that continually increase the number of individuals whose PHI is exposed. Protected Health Information is an attractive target for the bad guys due to several reasons. Significant amounts of personal information in health records have a...

Protected Health Information (PHI) security and patient privacy are major areas of concern for today’s health care providers, insurers, and their business partners. With...

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SEC Stresses Data Security After Settlement with Morgan Stanley

Seven Employees at ProMedica Hospitals Breach Patient Information

Ron Arden Talks About Cyber Security on Panel at FinCyberSec 2016

Digital Rights Management Helps the FDIC Proactively Address Cyber Security

Stop the Data Breaches – Everyone Should Protect Consumer Data

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FDIC is Adding Digital Rights Management to Arsenal for Data-Centric Security

Healthcare Data Breach – Unauthorized Access for Seven Years

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