Mind the gap: three actions to take today based on AT&T’s latest Cybersecurity Insights report

ByKayne

Taking these three actions immediately — investing in both cyber liability insurance and cybersecurity, investing in a trusted consulting firm, and getting people emotionally invested in cybersecurity training — will not prevent the next breach. However, these actions make it exponentially more expensive for criminals to breach your organization and are the socially responsible course of action to protect both your organization’s reputation and the public.

Cybersecurity for Outside Counsel

ByKayne

A 2016 American Bar Association survey showed that more than 25% of law firms had at least one data security breach in that year. In the spring of 2017, the Association of Corporate Counsel (“ACC”) released their Model Information Protection and Security Controls for Outside Counsel Possessing Company Confidential Information (“Model ”). The Model provides best practices for data security that outside counsel should use to safeguard their company’s confidential information.

This webinar will show how outside counsel can best implement the ACC’s recommendations to avoid a potentially catastrophic data security breach. Instead of focusing on the easy and self-evident solutions to sections 3, 4, 7, and 8 of the Model, this presentation will focus on the areas where external counsel is most likely to encounter difficulties.

Episode 20 – Interview with Kayne McGladrey on Multi-Factor Authentication

ByKayne

We made it to 20 episodes! I know some people don’t like it when you talk about milestones like this, but I’m doubly excited for this one because I finally get to publish my interview with Kayne McGladrey from Integral Partners. I know many of your have been scrambling to finish up the quarter or fiscal year, depending on your industry, so hopefully this will give you an opportunity to sit back, relax, and listen to the excellent information that Kayne provided.

Are You Doing All You Can to Protect Your Confidential Documents?

ByKayne

Kayne McGladrey (@kaynemcgladrey), director of information security services at Integral Partners, notes that, for several years, we’ve been hearing predictions about millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices with poor security joining networks and providing an easy attack vector for third parties.

“Printers are a culturally trusted technology because they’re perceived as not being new,” he says. “However, this doesn’t mean that modern organizations should not consider printers separately from a comprehensive strategy for the IoT.”

Do these three things if you are affected by the Equifax breach

ByKayne

This is a breach that will live with Americans for decades as we cannot change our social security numbers. It is unconscionable and irresponsible to offer a meager year of a service that will tell consumers that their identities have been stolen and misused by criminals. It’s then up to the consumers to sort it out.

Here are three things that you can do today to prevent this breach from affecting you and your family.

CYBER SECURITY FOR SMALL BUSINESSES AND CONSULTANTS

ByKayne

Do you feel like you are overwhelmed trying to run your business while defending against the latest cyber threats? Join Kayne McGladrey, speaker, author and Director of Information Security Services for Integral Partners (http://www.ipllc.co) for our upcoming presentation on taking a proactive, risk-oriented approach to cyber security for individual consultants and small businesses.

Kayne will discuss:

– Why you should manage risks based on user identity instead of chasing the latest threats

– How individual consultants can protect themselves

– A vendor-neutral reference architecture for cyber security at small businesses

We will have time for Q&A at the end of the presentation.

A lack of communications enables breaches and helps derail cybersecurity projects

ByKayne

When planning any migration or deployment of new technology, businesses should carefully consider the best way to communicate the intent and need of the new technology to those users affected by it, as well as to those who work in supporting roles. This article will examine the effects of communication (and lack thereof) on two different client projects.

The Scary Reason Companies Like Verizon Keep Blowing Your Digital Privacy

ByKayne

Even software developers often lack formal security training, says Kayne McGladrey, director of information security services at Boulder, Colorado security consulting firm Integral Partners. And even those who do can face pressure to roll code out quickly from employers impatient to see new features and fixes in production, he says.

The future looks bright if Generation AI can address cybersecurity

ByKayne

There’s quite a lot of optimism in Generation AI, the IEEE study of millennial parent’s attitudes about artificial intelligence. The findings of the study are evolutionary, not revolutionary, as views towards artificial intelligence have become more refined over the years. However, the optimism shown in this study pre-supposes that we can move past our current cybersecurity issues.