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Security Breaches: Experts Agree That Anyone or Any Company Can Be a Target — No Data is Totally Safe

By Dick Weisinger

Companies are increasingly becoming targets of cyber security attacks.  These are the results of a report from the Association of Corporate Counsel.  The report surveyed more than 1000 company in-house lawyers across 30 countries for their perspectives on data security. The

Security: Cyberhack Trends and Forecasts for 2016

By Dick Weisinger

Experian recently analyzed 15,000 breaches that occurred over the last ten years.  The result of their study was the identification of security breach trends and to also forecast areas of concern for 2016. Some of the findings of the report are: EMV

Security: IT Blindsided by Application Defects — the Cause of Most Security Incidents

By Dick Weisinger

Despite sophisticated security defenses that many IT departments build, data breaches at companies are much more likely to originate at the application level. Frank Zinghini, CEO of Applied Visions, reported in the CodeDx Cybersecurity Market Report that “the security industry

Security: Companies Confused When Too Many Detection Systems Used

By Dick Weisinger

Large financial institutions, as you’d expect, put a high priority on how they handle financial crime and risk management.  A recent survey by NICE Actimize found that more than half of big financial institutions have more than ten analytic and detection systems and about a third have more than

Security: If Businesses Could Better Share Threat Intelligence, They Could Reduce Risk of Data Breaches

By Dick Weisinger

The needle is moving in the wrong direction when it comes to the frequency of data breaches which hit companies.  In 2014, Ponemon reports that 43 percent of businesses had suffered at least one significant data breach over the previous