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An updated cybersecurity law that the IT organization (along with other college/university departments) will need to continue to integrate into its compliance programs, policies, and controls is the recent changes to New York’s General Business Law 899-aa and 899-bb (aka SHIELD Act). The compliance actions supporting this law have already...
The year 2020 will be forever remembered for the impacts of how the global pandemic forced the adoption of innovative production, logistics, and workforce solutions. Many best practices emerged from the experiences of COVID-19, we continue to learn that these new methods can pay significant dividends in 2021 and in...
In our increasingly digital world, individual’s personal information resides on hundreds, if not thousands, of servers across the globe resulting in a huge rise in identity theft. Defined as “the crime of obtaining the personal or financial information of another person to use their identity to commit fraud or deception,...
With many still reeling from the aftermath of the SolarWinds hack, enough dust has settled that we’ve started to ask the important questions: How did this happen? What can we do to prevent this in the future? And will it happen again? The good news is that this cyber attack...
FoxPointe Solutions has been closely following the major data breach that was recently announced involving Cit0day, as well as the subsequent analyses to accurately identify the true risk levels that could be associated with it. Following the emergence of updated forensic reports, it has been determined that this breach could...
Data Breach Legislation As cyber threats evolve and grow, it’s not a matter of if a cyberattack will occur but when – or worse, has it already happened, and you just don’t know it? As a result of the ever-changing technology landscape and the increasing frequency of breaches, the New...
Data Breach Report IBM and the Ponemon Institute recently released their annual Cost of a Data Breach report and found, not surprisingly, that the frequency and cost of data breaches are continuing to rise. The survey was performed over a 12-month period and included feedback from more than 470 companies...
