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

Crime Does Pay

Well, at least cybercrime does. In fact, it turns out that it pays well. Bromium published a report in 2018 in which it asserted: “High-earning cyber criminals can make $166,000+ per month; Middle-earners can make $75,000+ per month; Low-earners can make $3,500+ per month.” That is serious money for the high and middle earners. For

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,

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

The Importance of Analytics to Cybersecurity

In part 5 of 6 Vlogs, CTI’s Director of Cybersecurity, Ben Thurston makes the connection between cybersecurity monitoring and analytics. Ben explains the importance of analytics in gathering data and information from multiple security sources to provide insight into what is going on from a security/risk posture. Security analytics, like the CTI CustomerUniverse, collects information

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

Cybersecurity, cyber lessons, data security

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

Are You and Your Data Ready for NYCRR 500 Regulations

n March 1st, 2017, the New York State Department of Financial Services put into effect new cyber security requirements of its ‘covered entities’. Those entities include banks, trusts, budget planners, check cashers, credit unions, money transmitters, licensed lenders, mortgage brokers or bankers, and insurance companies that do business in New York. Here is a quick

Triangulating and closing security compromises

But the CEO told me to wire $60K to the Caymans! We’ve seen a recent rash of e-mail exploits that blend “social engineering” with e-mail technology. These exploits use e-mail to impersonate respected leaders and authorities of an enterprise giving direction to subordinates or delivering malware payloads and links in what looks like a trusted

How to Value the Cost of a Data Breach

As the Founder and CEO of a technology consulting firm, there are many proprietary data concerns that we must consider and protect, not the least of which is our client information. While our firm, Corporate Technologies, Inc (CTI). may not be directly subject to data security regulations, providing services to many of our clients obligates


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