The higher education sector ranks highest among the worst business sectors for handling cyberthreats, with 73% of organizations taking three or more days to apply a patch.—EfficientIP Report released 9/10/2018 The higher ed sector is an attractive target for hackers...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a Commission Statement and Guidance on Public Company Cybersecurity Disclosures that many feel could be a precursor to greater cybersecurity oversight by the agency. In the statement, the SEC states “Today, the...
There is a lot of confusion between MDR (Managed Detection and Response), and SIEM (Security Information and Event Management). It becomes even more confusing when a vendor throws in the term MSS (Managed Security Service). Rightly so as technically a managed SIEM and...
The “NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Act” S.770 was signed this month. What is it, and how can it benefit you or your small business clients? The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) initially developed a set of cybersecurity...
Cybersecurity has been getting a lot of attention with major breaches being announced almost weekly, followed by news articles on record compliance fines and litigation settlements. So why aren’t we getting better at cybersecurity? Assumptions. Many...
A wasted investment is the last thing any organization needs, yet the cost of a cybersecurity solution doesn’t necessarily equate to value. Consider Security Information and Event Management, or SIEM tools for example. Dark Reading points out that the tool...
