Keep Employee Information Safe Through Persistent Security

Hardly a week goes by without a new data breach making the headlines. Companies in different industries are constantly re-evaluating their security postures to determine how best to deal with the protection of sensitive and confidential data. A lot of effort is focused on financial and customer data, but most companies overlook all of the sensitive employee information they possess and the risks associated with storing and accessing it. This is a major area...

Hardly a week goes by without a new data breach making the headlines. Companies in different industries are constantly re-evaluating their security postures to...

Companies share a lot of confidential data with third parties. Who is responsible for keeping that data secure? Is it the originating company or the third party? Or both? This week American Express sent letters to card holders about a possible data breach. According to reports “an unauthorized person or group accessed the system of a third-party service provider prompting American Express to warn customers that card member information may have been compromised.” The...

Companies share a lot of confidential data with third parties. Who is responsible for keeping that data secure? Is it the originating company or...

The internet, its commercialization and all its technological advances have changed the way of the modern world. Unlimited information is available at the touch of a button; tasks that used to take time and effort are now much simpler. All this technology created the opportunity for companies to find new and creative ways to grow revenues and data collection has become an essential component of many business operations. As data is moving and multiplying...

The internet, its commercialization and all its technological advances have changed the way of the modern world. Unlimited information is available at the touch...

Reports emerged yesterday that UK media regulator Ofcom suffered a massive data breach when a former employee stole sensitive information on television companies and gave it to a major broadcaster, which incidentally is his or her new employer. The person who stole the information was not identified in reports. The former employee downloaded as much as six years worth of data before leaving the company. The intent of the action was to gain a...

Reports emerged yesterday that UK media regulator Ofcom suffered a massive data breach when a former employee stole sensitive information on television companies and...

Data breaches are beginning to cost companies a lot of money. This isn’t potentially lost revenue or brand damage, which may be hard to measure. This is cold, hard cash. Home Depot has agreed to pay as much as $19.5 million to compensate consumers for the data breach it suffered in 2014 that affected more than 50 million cardholders. That figure includes $13 million to reimburse customers for losses and $6.5 million for a...

Data breaches are beginning to cost companies a lot of money. This isn’t potentially lost revenue or brand damage, which may be hard to...

This year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco gave security professionals, executives and other attendees a lot to choose from as they tried to help their organizations prevent cyberattacks and mitigate the risk of insider threats. Apple’s current flap with the FBI on encryption was a big point of discussion throughout the event, including during keynotes. Amit Yoran, the President of RSA, came out strongly against government backdoors and weakening encryption. Fasoo’s theme this year...

This year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco gave security professionals, executives and other attendees a lot to choose from as they tried to help...

Fasoo Monthly Newsletter – February 2016

On February 16, 2016, a US judge ordered Apple to help the FBI search an iPhone belonging to the man responsible for the recent mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. The shooting, which the FBI has classified as a terrorist attack, is under investigation and the agency is trying to understand details that they are hoping to find on the shooter’s iPhone. The phone is protected by Apple encryption and user credentials, and the...

On February 16, 2016, a US judge ordered Apple to help the FBI search an iPhone belonging to the man responsible for the recent...

Over the last few years, we have all heard of companies in all industries lose their sensitive internal data, whether stolen or leaked to the outside world. These incidents included theft and sale of customer account details to external parties, printing and copying of sensitive data, loss or theft of laptops, USB sticks, disks and mobile devices, to name just a few. A common thread in a vast majority of these incidents involved internal...

Over the last few years, we have all heard of companies in all industries lose their sensitive internal data, whether stolen or leaked to...

Today, nobody argues that the healthcare industry is a gold mine for the bad guys and theft of protected health information is becoming a regular event. The “Verizon 2015 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report,” indicated that 90 percent of industries in the medical and health care arena have experienced a PHI breach and with all the reports in the media, it is clear to everyone that the situation has reached a critical point....

Today, nobody argues that the healthcare industry is a gold mine for the bad guys and theft of protected health information is becoming a...