Third Parties Pose Serious Cyber Security Risk to Enterprises At times, it becomes imperative for businesses to provide third parties access to their networks and data; however, doing so comes with an opportunity cost, i.e. cyber security risk. Let’s suppose you gave your vendor access to your critical business data. What if the vendor gets hacked? A serious cyber attack on a third-party can … [Read more...] about How to Alleviate Third Party Cyber Security Risks
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5 Industries That Top the Hit List of Cyber Criminals in 2017
Institutions More Vulnerable to Cyber Security Risks Like the majority people, you may think that financial institutions like banks would top the list of industries most at risk of cyber attacks. The reality is that healthcare, and not financial sector, stands at the peak of the industries at greater risk of cyber attacks, according to the 2016 IBM X-Force Cyber Security Intelligence Index. In … [Read more...] about 5 Industries That Top the Hit List of Cyber Criminals in 2017
Newsletter: Law Firms and Cyber Ransom
The Biggest Cyber Attack in the History of the Internet May 12, 2017, is remembered as the day of the biggest cyber ransomware attack in the history of the Internet. The web was taken by a ransomware called WannaCry that day. Within the first few hours, WannaCry infected more than 200,000 systems worldwide and locked out employees of many organizations out of their computers as it rattled … [Read more...] about Newsletter: Law Firms and Cyber Ransom