Stop Wealth Management Data Breaches

The financial services industry is a frequent target of hackers, but a larger threat may be trusted insiders since they have access to a lot of sensitive customer data.  Advisers within wealth management practices regularly share data with other advisers, staff members, a counterparty or a trusted third-party service provider. They may inadvertently or deliberately share that data with unauthorized …

Fasoo Presents Incident Response Solution

Fasoo sponsored and presented at an event in Columbus, OH on November 13, 2018 entitled “Incident Detection, Response and Recovery” highlighting how to prepare and manage an incident response plan for cybersecurity and data protection.  Presented and cosponsored by Catalyst Solutions, IBM and Huntington Insurance, the event brought together experts in legal, insurance, law enforcement, government, accounting and security disciplines …

Fasoo Highlights Unstructured Data Security at RSA 2018

Fasoo’s message of finding, protecting and controlling unstructured data definitely made an impact on attendees at the 2018 RSA Conference in San Francisco.  With new regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming on quickly and the general feeling that businesses need to do more than just track file access, companies are looking for a more comprehensive and practical …

Cyber Security Legislation Will Change the Face of Business

As 2017 gets underway, cyber security legislation will strengthen and force businesses to change the way they approach information security.  At the federal level in the United States, the US Congress and President have proposed numerous updates to existing regulations and new regulations to cover all facets of cybersecurity.  These include the Cyber Preparedness Act of 2016, Cybersecurity Systems and …

New Data Breach Security Laws Soon to be in Place?

This week, Obama addressed the nation with a new data breach notification bill. Although data notification is a major part of this bill, the president also mentioned about file encryption as well. The White House bill provides businesses with safe harbor by exempting them from the individual notice requirements if a risk assessment concludes that “there is no reasonable risk …

How Long Can Organizations be Affected by Healthcare Data Breaches?

2014 has been a big year for data breaches in the healthcare industry. From malicious insiders to accidental loss of devices containing patient information, the headlines for these data breaches were non-stop throughout this year. Healthcare data breaches can affect organizations even longer after the security issue was discovered. Not only financially, but the trust of patients who have had …

Government Pushes Organizations to Implement Stronger Data Security

From the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the FCC all the way up to the White House is pushing for stronger data security measures amongst organizations that deal with sensitive customer information. Just last week, the FCC fined two telecommunication companies $10 million, for neglecting to protect over 300,000 customers’ personally identifiable information (PII). This is the FCC’s …

Share Your Files Securely with Partners and Customers

Recent headlines involving unencrypted portable media such as CDs and USBs have hit the news. Most recently in Arizona, two unencrypted computer discs containing names and Social Security numbers were sent to another partner and after a month, the partner still said it had not received the discs. This situation along with many other healthcare industry data breaches proves that …

Privacy and Security Guidelines, Do You Follow Them at Your Company?

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 …