Incident response plans must be carefully designed to meet the needs of a specific organization, says attorney Ron Raether, who outlines important legal considerations.
The city of Atlanta's ransomware outbreak cleanup and response tab has hit $2.6 million after a March attack froze corporate servers, employees' PCs and resident-facing portals. Some security experts say the breach response funds would have been put to better use preventing the outbreak in the first place.
Technological advances that are sweeping the financial sector by storm have brought about new ways for users to access their data on the go but it also presents new challenges for financial institutions to protect the personal data of their customers. Every financial institution needs to implement a comprehensive...
Four Singapore universities were allegedly attacked by an Iranian hacking group accused of stealing more than 31 terabytes of data from universities all over the world, local officials confirmed. Some 52 accounts were targeted.
During this workshop, Troutman Sanders partner Ron Raether will discuss the benefits of table top exercises. He then will explain how to conduct an effective exercise walking through mock incidents and explaining the process. Participants will:
Walk through several common incident scenarios and observe lessons to be...
If you browsed the latest security headlines, you'd probably think the majority of data breaches were related to hackers, political activists, malware or phishing. While the latter two hint at it, the truth is that nearly half of all data breaches can be traced back to insiders in some capacity.
The attorney general of Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against Uber for allegedly violating the state's mandatory breach notification law. It's the latest in a long string of legal and regulatory repercussions Uber is facing after waiting more than a year to disclose a serious breach.
A new strain of the Petya ransomware called "Bad Rabbit" is impacting business and sweeping across Russia and Ukraine, among other Eastern European countries. Like many of the other ransomware outbreaks, understanding fact from fiction is the first step in staying safe.
As of Q1 2018, the global cybersecurity community finds themselves inundated with both internal and external advanced threat actors who are stealthier, more resilient and sadly, more effective than they have ever been before. Many organizations are coming to terms with deciding whether their security posture is...
Punjab National Bank, which has been in the news for a $1.8 billion fraud incident, got more bad news when a security company revealed that payment card information for as many as 10,000 of the bank's customers has been for sale on the dark web. The two incidents do not appear to be related.
Want to meddle with a democracy? Just use its social media outlets against it to amplify already existing social divisions. That's the quick take on the indictment recently unsealed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that accuses Russians of running an "active measures" campaign against the United States.
After a U.S. indictment charged Russians with running a troll factory that interfered in U.S. elections, groups tracking online disinformation campaigns warn that Russian bots are now debating the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The White House is facing questions over what it's doing to deter Moscow.
Adoption of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is motivating organizations worldwide to improve existing technical controls for securing personal information. Organizations should be especially aware that the GDPR and other recent legal developments amplify the negative repercussions of a data security...
Vulnerability scanning, or the process of identifying a list of known security gaps in the network environment, is the focal point for most enterprise vulnerability management programs. The use of vulnerability scanners as security assessment tools is nearly ubiquitous in large organizations. However, as network...
Companies in India are increasingly automating more SOC functions because they lack skilled staff, says Neri Zin, vice president, APAC, at Cyberbit. And many are turning to MSSPs for help.
