The number of data breaches are constantly on the uprise, and they are costly. Business owners are taking preventative and proactive measures to secure and implement best cybersecurity practices. There is a virtually new…
Usually, you can’t develop cybersecurity products and businesses by yourself. You need to work with others and, in the process, to disclose, to them, confidential information. In doing so, most cybersecurity companies will want to protect their proprietary technology, customer and prospects lists, and other trade secrets as much as possible. Furthermore, many cybersecurity companies … Read more
In recent years, two significant developments — (1) the sabotage of centrifuges and Programmable Logic Controllers at Iran’s secret Natanz nuclear fuel-enrichment facility by the Stuxnet worm, and (2) the accelerating growth in the tremendous investment by American information technology (“IT”) giants in Israel — have come to epitomize the close cooperation between the U.S. … Read more
Private sector organizations should be motivated to implement the NIST Cybersecurity Framework not only to enhance their cybersecurity and to benefit from added incentives to do so, they should also implement the Framework to lower their potential risk of legal liability. Failure by the U.S. Congress to pass meaningful cybersecurity legislation led the President to … Read more
It’s the sales season in the cybersecurity industry. Why? Just take a look at the headlines. Edward Snowden leaked classified national security documents last year, prompting global interest in privacy matters. Retail chain Target suffered a devastating customer data breach months later. Then emerged the Heartbleed bug, which cyber-criminals exploited to obtain user passwords kept by … Read more
Shortly after Edward Snowden burst onto the scene in May 2013, we learned — too late — that there were multiple “red flags” in his background investigation that should have prevented him from gaining access to the countless numbers of classified National Security Agency (NSA) documents that he leaked. Although Snowden has caused untold damage … Read more
Cybersecurity has a dirty little secret. Despite all the buzz, nobody knows what cybersecurity actually is. Many people have ideas about what cybersecurity should be. And there are dramatic predictions about market size. But we are not yet at a point where anyone can say, authoritatively, what cybersecurity actually is. We are in the digital … Read more
Although the economy may have been on a rollercoaster for several years, one consistent growth market has continued to be government contracting. Despite recent sequestration and budget cuts, the stability of revenues for the vast majority of government contractors has led to considerable Mergers & Acquisitions activity over the past few years. Nowhere is this … Read more
Knowledge of where the law is and where it likely is headed is an important aspect of assessing the financial impacts of Cybersecurity decisions. The impacts of the law on Cybersecurity corporate planning abound. A few examples will suffice to make the point: the European Commission is considering whether to mandate European Union member states … Read more
Best Practice Checklist Developed for PSAP Lines to Minimize Risks If you are a regular reader of this magazine, you are well aware of the problems that denial of service (DoS) attacks can have on a business or an individual. The dangers of cyber attacks on utilities has been written about and discussed over and … Read more
