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Building Cyber Resilience into Your Management Plan
Build cyber resilience into your risk management plan with help from the team at Reciprocity. As the threats to information security continue to evolve, more businesses are investing more money in cybersecurity. But, given enough time and effort, anything can be breached — even with a comprehensive cybersecurity program. That’s why many organizations are shifting […]
November 22, 2021
How to Reduce Your Cyber Exposure
2020 was a landmark year for cybersecurity events and data breaches. In the first few months following the COVID-19 pandemic, malicious emails shot up by 600 percent. The number of cyberattacks using previously unseen malware or methods rose from 20 to 35 percent. Among organizations struck by a ransomware attack, 54 percent said that cybercriminals […]
The Importance of Information Security
The first nine months of 2020 saw 2,953 publicly reported breaches — 51 percent more than the same period in 2019; by the end of 2020, another 1,000 breaches pushed the total to 3,950. On average, security professionals took 228 days to identify a security breach and 80 days to contain it. These facts show […]
How to Communicate Risks to Stakeholders
How to Communicate Risks to Stakeholders Project stakeholders can’t act on what they don’t understand. Even the most thorough risk analysis is useless if it isn’t communicated clearly to the right people, at the right time. Whether it’s internal stakeholders, like team members, or external stakeholders, like regulators or investors, each target audience needs relevant […]
GDPR: How Does it Affect Social Media?
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is often hailed as a “gold standard” regulation to protect consumer information and data privacy in the modern digital age. Through strong measures and stiff penalties, the GDPR aims to control how organizations in any country can collect, use, and store the personal information of EU data […]
Improve Efficiencies With Vendor Tiering
As your company grows you’ll increasingly find it necessary to work with outside partners to meet business objectives. Taking on new vendors and contractors, however, also means taking on a certain amount of risk. Tracking your own risk is a challenge; managing third-party risk complicates matters even further. How can you keep your vendor risk […]
The Kindness Challenge: 3 Words We Lived By in November
Gratitude. Kindness. Reciprocity. Three great words (especially that last one — though we admit we’re a bit biased!). But how often do you put them into practice in your day-to-day life? Stop to count your blessings: your healthy, loving family; your own health; and all the people who in one way or another make all […]
Cloud Security Compliance: 11 Steps on the Stairway to Cloud Services Heaven
Organizations are increasingly turning to cloud-based IT solutions, which makes cloud security compliance standards more important than ever before. The steps to cloud security compliance, however, can be confusing in today’s constantly evolving cybersecurity environment. Entering into a relationship with a cloud provider can result in increased vulnerabilities, and it’s important to assure the protection […]
Internal vs. External Vulnerability Scan: What Are the Differences?
Cyberattackers and hackers try to exploit security vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to enterprise networks. Their intentions typically include installing malware, stealing sensitive data, launching supply chain attacks, or engaging in cyber extortion or espionage. As the cyber threat landscape expands, security experts at IBM believe that “thousands of new vulnerabilities (are) likely to be […]
November 17, 2021
4 Most Common Causes of Data Leaks in 2021
2020 was a landmark year for data breaches. This year will likely be no different. More than 8 billion records were exposed in just the first quarter, a 273 percent jump over the same period from 2019. By the end of Q3 2020, a staggering 36 billion records had been exposed. By end of the […]
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