Insider Threats: Are You Prepared?

It’s December and we are thinking there can’t be anymore insider threats this year, right? Wrong. From the past two weeks, we’ve had an ex-employee charged with accessing boss’s emails, laptop with patient health information (PHI) stolen from an employee’s car, former family center employee accessed a database of personally identifiable information (PII) and lastly an examiner for a national association lost a flash drive containing PII of members of a $13 million federal...

It’s December and we are thinking there can’t be anymore insider threats this year, right? Wrong. From the past two weeks, we’ve had an...

With it being the last month of 2014, and with a record year for data breaches, it’s time to look ahead to what’s next in data breaches in 2015. For the data breach industry, 2014 was a booming year with nearly half of all organization suffering at least one data breach, up 10% from last year. Although some organizations have taken some steps to be proactive in this, there still remains a lot...

With it being the last month of 2014, and with a record year for data breaches, it’s time to look ahead to what’s...

Last month a South Texas Veterans Health Care System alerted 4,000 veterans that their personal data had been exposed as a result of a printing error. In an another article, only 17% of businesses are using mobile printing due to concerns of security threats and in a recent research by Quocirca released in August over 90% of organizations have suffered at least one data breach due to unsecured printing. It all way too common...

Last month a South Texas Veterans Health Care System alerted 4,000 veterans that their personal data had been exposed as a result of a...

Without a doubt, 2014 is well on its way to replace 2013 as the highest year on record for exposed records. In the first quarter of 2014 alone a record 43% of American companies reported experiencing hacks according to a study released by the Ponemon Institute. According to the 2014 Identity Theft Resource Center Breach Report, in all the following categories combined (banking/credit/financial, business, educational, government/military and medical/healthcare) as of November 3, 2014 a...

Without a doubt, 2014 is well on its way to replace 2013 as the highest year on record for exposed records. In the first...

We’ve heard of data breaches by insiders but not in the way of printing errors. Although between the two kinds of insider threats, malicious and by accident, this is considered by accident, this can be a big headache for organizations. Whether it is leaving printouts of sensitive data on the printer unattended after printing or printing errors due to human error, this can all lead to data breaches. In a recent article, a health...

We’ve heard of data breaches by insiders but not in the way of printing errors. Although between the two kinds of insider threats, malicious...

How many of you have company privacy and security guidelines at your company? Do you really follow each and every guideline? Based on a recent article of the data breach at AT&T, it doesn’t look like that is the case. One of its employees did not follow their “strict privacy and security guidelines” and gained access to customers’ accounts without authorization. Some of this information includes Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and Customer...

How many of you have company privacy and security guidelines at your company? Do you really follow each and every guideline? Based on a...

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