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Cybersecurity: Costs for Responding to Security Breaches Spikes

By Dick Weisinger

As the waves of cyber breaches continue to grow in strength, the associated costs of trying to defend against them and the costs of cleaning up after a breach occurs are continuing to grow. Responding to security breaches are expensive.

HealthCare and Security: Medical Record Fraud Harder to Identify Than Credit Card Theft

By Dick Weisinger

Hacking medical health records can be big business. In 2013, 40 percent of healthcare organizations said that their computer systems had been hacked. The $3 trillion US healthcare business often still relies on old computer systems with weak security protections.

Security: Google and Dropbox Announce ‘Simply Secure’ Initiative

By Dick Weisinger

In collaboration with Open Technology, Google and Dropbox have announced an open-source initiative called ‘Simply Secure’.  The goal of the project is to make security technology easier to use and more transparent.  As the first step towards realizing that goal,

Cloud Security: Businesses Worry about Putting Data in the Cloud, but they Worry about On-Premise Data Too

By Dick Weisinger

Putting an app in the cloud increases the likelihood of having a data breach.   Using cloud-based apps may increase the economic fallout from a data breach by more than a factor of three.  Those are two of the results from

Information Security: Businesses Increasingly Adopt Cloud-Based Security

By Dick Weisinger

Information security spending is expected to reach $71 billion in 2014, an increase of of nearly 8 percent, predicts Gartner. Much of the drive in spending can be attributed to new security technologies for protecting mobile, the cloud, and social.