Within weeks of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 going into effect, the first CCPA lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California, based on a personal data breach of a retailer and its cloud service provider. Since then, many lawsuits have been filed, addressing multiple aspects of...
While many enterprises have taken tremendous strides in recent years to measure and manage the cyber risk present within their own IT systems, they struggle to extend that vigilance to third-party risk.
In this white paper, we detail the need to gain a strong understanding of third-party cyber risks and how your...
For many organizations, digital transformation arrived over a weekend in March. Now they look ahead and wonder "what next?" re: authentication, privacy and third-party risk. In a webinar preview, RSA CTO Zulfikar Ramzan shares his vision of cybersecurity in 2021.
What are some best practices for moving network security from the datacenter to the cloud? And what are the essentials of Secure Access Service Edge frameworks, and how can they be implemented? These are among the questions to be discussed in a new series of virtual roundtables hosted by Forcepoint and Homayun Yaqub.
Declaring that threats to the United States' power grid are a national emergency, President Donald Trump is taking steps designed to help defend the grid from foreign interference by focusing on the supply chain.
Digital transformation is driving utilization of third parties, which can introduce significant risk to your organization. In fact, over 60% of breaches today are linked to a third-party. With this stat in mind, it's no wonder that a multitude of potential third-party cyber risk management (TPCRM) solutions have been...
Australia's pandemic contact-tracing app may be released by the end of the month. The app will collect names and phone numbers, enabling health authorities to contact those who've been exposed to people who have been infected with COVID-19.
Alongside the sad and vast expense of legitimate claims, it is an unfortunate fact that in times of economic hardship, people have a history of taking any opportunity to exploit financial institutions for ill-gotten gain.
It's crucial for companies to assess and monitor the security of their vendors, suppliers and business partners.
Companies must carefully check their vendors' cyber posture, and the initial vetting of any third party typically begins with a comprehensive security questionnaire. But these can be a headache, because...
Organizations can no longer simply hire vendors without proof of a strong cyber posture, and a comprehensive questionnaire can demonstrate that vendors' internal security policies are up to par.
Yet not all questionnaires are the same. The benefits of automated questionnaires can vary, depending on the...
The process of onboarding vendors has become complicated because of concerns about cybersecurity. To prevent data breaches caused by a third party vendor, security professionals demand that vendors demonstrate and maintain a strong cyber posture.
Effectively checking vendors' cyber posture can be extremely...
We typically think of supply chain attacks as stealthy attacks on hardware components, such as malware on laptops and network devices. But this particular supply chain attack was an attack on a service provider.
Download this case study to learn how to quickly mitigate third-party security risks.
As healthcare organizations navigate the COVID-19 crisis, they should take critical steps to improve their security posture and third-party security risk governance, says consultant Brenda Ferraro, the former CISO at Meritain Health, an Aetna subsidiary.
Enterprises globally recognize the challenge of third-party cyber risk, but they still struggle with the risk management. Dave Stapleton of CyberGRX discusses the elements of a mature program, including the role of risk ratings.
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