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...

Insider threats exist everywhere and are tricky to detect and deter. Privileged users can pose a greater threat to your business than hackers, since they already have access to your critical business data. If a user has legitimate access to sensitive data, that person may accidentally or deliberately share it with unauthorized people inside and outside of your business. Trying to differentiate legitimate data sharing and malicious activity is difficult. Users need to share...

Insider threats exist everywhere and are tricky to detect and deter. Privileged users can pose a greater threat to your business than hackers, since...

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...

Will the healthcare industry finally move towards the use of encryption in hospitals and other healthcare facilities to protect vulnerable patient and hospital data? More and more preventable incidents keep occurring that put patient information at risk. A 2015 data breach study estimated that breaches cost the healthcare industry about $5.6 billion annually. As healthcare moves toward more connected care, the amount of data exchanged between organizations will only grow. This is exacerbated by...

Will the healthcare industry finally move towards the use of encryption in hospitals and other healthcare facilities to protect vulnerable patient and hospital data? ...

Fasoo attended “The State of Privacy” event at The Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, DC on January 28, 2016 as part of Data Privacy Day. The luncheon and event was sponsored by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to help raise awareness and dialogue on managing privacy in the US and internationally. On January 27, 2014, the 113th U.S. Congress adopted S. Res. 337, a nonbinding resolution expressing support for the designation of January...

Fasoo attended “The State of Privacy” event at The Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, DC on January 28, 2016 as part of Data Privacy...

If you believe getting breached is inevitable, you’re right. Businesses that think it won’t happen to them are either living with their heads in the sand or just don’t understand the information security landscape today. The battle lines are both external and internal as organized hackers and malicious or careless insiders continue to be a threat to your most sensitive data. Organizations face a new set of challenges today that include advanced persistent threats...

If you believe getting breached is inevitable, you’re right. Businesses that think it won’t happen to them are either living with their heads in...

Recently I was in a meeting with a global pharmaceutical client in New Jersey who told me of the importance they place on their highly secure, centrally managed and monitored persistent security platform to protect against data theft and ensure that their valuable R&D information cannot be lost or inadvertently sent to a competitor. As the meeting ended, I was informed of the news about the charges brought against five people in the Untied States around trade...

Recently I was in a meeting with a global pharmaceutical client in New Jersey who told me of the importance they place on their...

Last year, a Montefiore Medical Center employee in New York stole names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, next of kin information and health insurance details of more than 12,000 patients and used those identities to purchase clothing and other merchandise from some of New York’s finest department stores. The employee printed thousands of patients’ records every day and sold them for $3 per copy to outside accomplices. The hospital had no way...

Last year, a Montefiore Medical Center employee in New York stole names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, next of kin information and...

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