Archive for Secure Information Exchange
December 15, 2011 at 11:05 am · Filed under Secure Information Exchange
By Evy Schwartz
Bring your own device (BYOD) to work? Not only are companies looking the other way but some organizations are actually giving the go ahead. Interestingly enough, federal agencies seem to be leading the way.
Veterans Affairs CIO Roger Baker, predicted that it will be within 2 years that federal agencies embrace a BYOD strategy. According to Baker, this means employees will be able to use their own devices to connect to the internal network, FierceGovernmentIT. So if the feds are doing it…surely companies worldwide will begin to allow the seepage of personal devices in the workplace.
But what could be motivating this sudden acceptance of personal devices? Thanks to a recent Read the rest of this entry »
December 5, 2011 at 7:40 am · Filed under Secure Information Exchange
By Bill Buie
I’m so delighted to be able to tell you that we’ve announced today that we’ve acquired the mobile file sharing company, TappIn. I’ve put together a few thoughts as to why “going mobile” is critical to GlobalSCAPE:
Much is being written about the “blurring” of personal technology and business technology. Maybe it’s really a societal statement that more and more of our work is done on smartphones, tablets and home PC’s. It’s then a natural extension to ask the IT organization in your company to use them as they see fit. We have already heard a number of stories that suggest that if IT isn’t ahead of this curve, then users will find a way to do it quite possibly outside the established boundaries and policies.
We agree that employees should be Read the rest of this entry »
October 28, 2011 at 10:18 am · Filed under Secure Information Exchange
By Evy Schwartz
How about you? If you had to choose which to have to deal with…would you pick a divorce or going through a data breach? If you chose divorce, then you agree with most people. This revelation came from a recent study asking people to rate the stress levels of specific situations that happen in life. The results were pretty interesting.
Most people said that dealing with a data breach at work would beat out a divorce or getting fired in terms of stress levels! This study was done by Dynamic Markets who polled 1,000 IT managers and 1,000 non-IT employees in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Almost three quarters of those polled agreed that simply keeping data protected is more stressful than Read the rest of this entry »
September 21, 2011 at 9:34 am · Filed under Secure Information Exchange
By Evy Schwartz
Remember back when the Internet really started to take off? Online stores began to pop-up and we were presented with an interesting dilemma. On one hand, we wanted to take advantage of the new and convenient way to shop and do business. But it was so new, we weren’t sure we could trust our credit card information would be safe online. But we eventually came around and online business has been booming.
However, the tide is starting to turn. Trust is an issue again.
All of the recent data breaches we’ve been hearing about have a great deal to do with Read the rest of this entry »
August 23, 2011 at 8:43 am · Filed under Secure Information Exchange
By Evy Schwartz
And another one bites the dust. This time Yale University is eating data breach crow. 43,000 students, faculty and staffers were recently notified that their personal information, including social security numbers, were breached.
Breached how? Well, specifically, the information was made publicly available on Google. People’s names, addresses and social security numbers were out there for anyone to see for a period of 10 months. And of course, Yale has offered the victims identity theft insurance and free credit monitoring services for 2 years. That sounds expensive!
So how in the world Read the rest of this entry »
August 5, 2011 at 2:41 pm · Filed under Secure Information Exchange
By Evy Schwartz
Have you heard of it? It’s being called the biggest data breach in history. This rat has been quietly sniffing its way around the databases of governments and economic institutions around the world since 2006! We’re talking military databases, the United Nations, the International Olympic committee and many more institutions, totaling 72.
So what’s going on here? Is this…could this be the work of a small group of hackers? Nope. According to employees from McAfee, the company that discovered the breach, this is much bigger. They are saying that Operation Shady Rat is Read the rest of this entry »
August 3, 2011 at 9:37 am · Filed under Secure Information Exchange
By Evy Schwartz
Another huge data breach hits the news and it’s a company that you do business with. You wonder if your information was a part of the breach but you haven’t heard from the company. You call and you’re told that your information wasn’t touched. Relieved that your info is safe, you go on to other issues that have popped up.
Fast forward a few weeks. You’re at the movies and your charge card is denied. Huh? How can that be? So you contact your credit card company and find out the card is maxed out. You’ve been breached!
Come to find out, your information Read the rest of this entry »
July 22, 2011 at 1:53 pm · Filed under Secure Information Exchange
By Evy Schwartz
Remember the big Sony data breach that happened in April? To refresh your memory, hackers accessed the personal data of 100 million users of Sony’s online games. What really hurt Sony is they couldn’t verify whether 12.8 million credit card numbers were compromised or not.
One month later, Sony began talking about leaning on its insurers to help pay the staggering costs of the data breach. And we’re talking a deficit of $178 million in operating profit this year. This number includes strengthening their data security. However, potential compensation to the victims is not a part of this number.
So…back to the part about the insurers. Can you guess Read the rest of this entry »
July 20, 2011 at 4:09 pm · Filed under Secure Information Exchange
By Evy Schwartz
You had to know this was coming. There has been legislation introduced to protect American consumers from data theft. H.R. 2577, the Secure and Fortify Electronic (SAFE) Data Act has been introduced to the U.S. Congress by Representative Mary Bono Mack (CA-45).
This bill will require Read the rest of this entry »
July 19, 2011 at 1:41 pm · Filed under Secure Information Exchange
By Evy Schwartz
Health care companies beware. After years of neglecting to enforce HIPAA privacy rules on a regular basis, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is getting to work.
This month, HHS announced that the University of California at Los Angeles Health System has been fined a whopping $865,000. UCLA has also agreed to a long-term correction plan to settle the long list of violations. Doing so will just add to the total cost of the fine.
This fine may not be Read the rest of this entry »
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