Concentric announcements
June 16 2020 Concentric welcomes Heidi Shey, Forrester Research to Provide Best Practices for Risk Mitigation, Data Governance and Compliance and Privacy
June 11 2020 Concentric releases Q2 2020 Data Risk Report, showing sharp increase in oversharing of sensitive documents during transition to work-from-home
Jan 29 2020 Concentric comes out of stealth to Stop the Threat of Unprotected and Overshared Business-Critical Data
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Pandemic Fallout Creates Perfect Conditions For Insider Threat
Joseph Blankenship
Forrester
Organizations around the world have moved quickly to deal with COVID-19, sending users to work from home, reducing staff, and taking other cost-control actions. While these steps are necessary, they combine to create ideal conditions for insider threat.
COVID-19 Threat Alert From CERT
NSA and CISA
Both CISA and NCSC are seeing a growing use of COVID-19-related themes by malicious cyber actors. At the same time, the surge in teleworking has increased the use of potentially vulnerable services, such as virtual private networks (VPNs), amplifying the threat to individuals and organizations.
Pandemic Fallout Creates Perfect Conditions for Insider Threat
Joseph Blankenship
Forrester
Organizations around the world have moved quickly to deal with COVID-19, sending users to work from home, reducing staff, and taking other cost-control actions. While these steps are necessary, they combine to create ideal conditions for insider threat.
What's new in the Army's data strategy? Security
Andrew Eversden
Fifthdomain.com
The U.S. Army's forthcoming data strategy will be declarative about security. According to Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford, the Army's chief information officer, the previous approach from 2016 was less informative about the significance of data security. He says, "If you don't implement the data strategy first, just think about what we're going to be moving into the cloud. Probably not the right things."
Data Security in Cloud Computing: Who's in Charge?
Arawan Gajajiva
Matillion
The real question for businesses isn't, "How secure is my data in the cloud?", but rather, "Am I using the cloud securely?". Majority of cloud providers have cloud security solutions and measures to help safeguard enterprise cloud data. But knowing what security measures your business needs and the steps you need to follow to keep your business data secure ultimately still falls with you.
Data Hackers "Have the Advantage" as the World Scrambles to Stop Them
Lauren Rublin
Barrons.com
"Attackers have the advantage," says Katheryn Rosen, a senior research scholar at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. According to Katheryn, this problem will only worsen as the looming rollout of the Industrial Internet of Things, or digitally connected factories and supply chains will create "a vast open surface area where hackers can find an easy entry."
FBI Official Says Cyber Crime Reports Quadrupled during COVID-19 Pandemic
Water ISAC
Speaking in an online panel last week, FBI Deputy Assistant Director Tonya Ugoretz said the number of cyber crime reports received by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has quadrupled compared to months before the pandemic.
Work from home, phase 2: What comes next for security?
Jon Oltsik
CSO Online
Phase 1 was all about employee access, network communications confidentiality/integrity, and basic endpoint security. The next phases will move quickly from risk assessment to mitigation.
The Importance of Training: Cybersecurity Awareness like a Human Firewall
Remesh Ramachandran
Entrepreneur.com
The epidemic of cybersecurity threats is so apparent that an enterprise cannot afford to overlook the significance of employee training for threats and cybersecurity best practices. Remesh Ramachandran discusses the importance of the preparedness of an enterprise or its employees against highly skilled hackers, criminals that aim to steal its data.
Momentum Cyber + Optiv Security: 2019 Security Technology Spend Insights Report
Dino Boukouris
LinkedIn Pulse
What are the areas to watch when it comes to spending on security technology? Dino Boukouris dives deep to find out key focus areas and investment priorities of Cybersecurity teams across the globe. Discover the top five technology spending trends and technology areas to watch with insights on the change in spending, key drivers of change, strategic activity, and a future outlook.
Protecting data in an increasingly insecure world
Myles Suer
CIO
Should CIOs be focused on creating better fortresses? Or securing data and whom can access it? Myles Suer takes a holistic view into Data Security in an increasingly distributed, cloud enabled world. He closes it out with a list of 10 things that should immediately make the CIOs investment list for data protection.
Three ways security is compromised on the cloud
Kelsey Reichmann
Fifthdomain.com