The Federal Trade Commission has recently updated the 2003 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ‘Safeguards Rule’ to create new standards and procedures that will apply to auto dealerships and go into effect in December 2022. The Safeguards Rule outlines the standards required for the protection of consumer data. The new updates create stricter criteria and procedures that car dealers will need to implement, both to reduce the risk of a data breach and to better protect customer data.

Learn who needs open source audits, why you might need one, who and what is involved, and how an open source audit can help you in an M&A. If you’re part of a modern business that does any software development, your dev teams are using open source components to move quickly, save money, and leverage community innovation. If you’re a law firm or a consultant, your clients use open source.

A well-thought-out incident response plan is no longer recommended – it’s critical. With the rate that cyber attacks are increasing – putting customer privacy at risk and forcing some businesses to close – it’s never been more important to educate your team on the risks, and help prepare your organization for the worst case scenario.

If you’ve been paying attention to trends in access control, then you’ll likely have come across the terms Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). Both have years of precedent in the field of access control, and both are used to great effect across nearly every market in the world.

Splunk embodies the top 5 principles of unified security and observability, and has been an expert in log management, security, and observability for years.

Ransomware dominated the cybersecurity sphere yet again in August, with victims ranging from wealthy European nations to humble libraries to one of the most storied franchises in American sports. Also, people who send disgusting pranks via mail got some of their business put out on the street. What can we say, it was a weird month. Here are some of the breaches, hacks, and attacks that captured our attention in August 2022.

Modern organizations are built on data. It enables collaboration and helps us engage with customers. But that same helpful data is also sprawled across countless apps, making it difficult to secure. Ransomware attacks are on the rise — 57% of security leaders expect ransomware to compromise their organization within the next year — which makes data protection more essential than ever.

According to a recent survey from the Cloud Security Alliance, cloud issues and misconfigurations remain the leading causes of breaches and outages—and 58% of respondents report concerns about security in the cloud. Their worries are well-founded. Nearly every day, we see examples of a company’s sensitive data spilling out of leaky clouds.

As the physical and digital worlds are coming together by the day, the need to protect our privacy and confidentiality is becoming more pivotal. Securing data is essential for everyone, including an organization, a person, or any digital entity. In the world of digital security, hashing and encryption are two important protection structures. Let’s keep encryption for another time and focus on hashing for today.

Cyberattacks have become more sophisticated, and they have the potential to cause severe disruption to service availability and financial loss to businesses. According to Gartner, IT downtime costs businesses $5,600 p/minute on average. For every business with an online presence, being able to serve user requests and deliver content in a secure, reliable, and speedy manner is critical. This is where content delivery networks (CDNs) come in.