So, You’ve got Cyber Insurance and You’re all Set, Right?  

Cyber Insurance

How about we play a little cyber insurance trivia to find out?  Trust me; it’s more interesting than you might think. In an interview between Carole Theriault and Martin Overton, Theriault plays, “Covered by cyber Insurance, True or False” with Overton, who once worked for a large cyber insurance company. Overton describes himself as a

“Next Gen” Devices Aren’t Going to Solve Your Current Security Problems

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Are you sick of the marketing hype suggesting some “Next Gen” security device can solve all your security problems? Yes? Good. If not, maybe you should be. Let’s pick on the Redmond giant for a moment to illustrate an example. Microsoft announced last month that after a legal victory, it had taken down 99 websites

Enhanced Ransomware Protection

Although the industry acknowledges a decline in the number of ransomware attacks in 2018, this news isn’t anything to get excited about. The trend has moved from targeting individuals via mass email campaigns to companies by way of manual attacks. Perhaps the reason for this is security awareness programs have been effective, and end users

Regulatory Fines, The Dollars are in the Details

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I was just speaking with a colleague about the news that Google has been fined the largest penalty to date for failing to comply with GDPR obligations. The penalty was around $56 million USD, but  the Marriott data breach penalty is estimated to be around $1 billion. Why such a discrepancy between the two?  That

Apathy: CyberSecurity’s biggest HURDLE

WE ARE COMFORTABLY NUMB, AND THE DATA AGGREGATORS KNOW IT…. Who knew Pink Floyd’s classic rock hit could be the theme song to the current state of data breaches.  Given the lack of any lasting public outrage for data breaches and leaks of personal data, I find myself wondering if the masses really care?  Meaning,

Along the Fault Line: CA takes on Data Privacy Rights & Silicon Valley Freaks

What’s to worry about California taking on Data Privacy Rights legislation that aims to protect the individual’s data and punish businesses that make their cash by peddling it? Well, it seems that if you Google “California GDPR”, ironically you might find results indicating that Google is none-too-happy, for one. Yes, that’s right, California has passed,

Dangerous SAML SSO vulnerability?

Several sources have recently reported the discovery of a ‘flaw’ in certain SAML implementations that could allow a ‘bad actor’ to alter the identity carried in a Single Sign-On SAML assertion and legitimately log in as a different user as reported by TechTarget. Wow – that’s bad!  That was my initial reaction, and I envisioned

A Multi-layered Approach to Securing Data Assets

In this 3rd of 6 Vblogs, CTI’s Ben Thurston explains to Mark Janowicz that there is no one cybersecurity solution that will solve all problems when it comes to data security.  The best approach, Ben explains is a multi-layered one. The data that is owned by your marketing team contains a lot of important and

Why Equifax Type Breaches Will Continue

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Lessons Not Learned from Target – Why Equifax Type Breaches Will Continue. It’s hard to believe the massive data breach at Target that cost their CEO and CIO their jobs occurred almost four years ago. It was a very high-profile data breach that should have put all C-suite executives on notice that if you fail

Marketing Analytics and Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity and marketing analytics go hand-in-hand because at the end of the day it’s still about keeping data about your customer and prospects safe and out of the hands of cyber criminals.  You certainly do not want the theft of sensitive information to be the next news headline! In this first of six video blogs,


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