Archive for November, 2014

4 Privacy Predictions for 2015

Saturday, November 29th, 2014

It is that time of the year again…time for prognostications about the year ahead!

I was asked to provide a few predictions for 2015. Based upon not only what I’ve seen in 2014, but also foreshadowing from the past two-three decades, here are some realistic possibilities.  (more…)

You Need to Know about Ransomware

Monday, November 24th, 2014

When was the last time you made a backup of all your data? How often do you make incremental backups? Do you keep these backups on a separate storage device and disconnected (or firewalled away from) the rest of your network?

“Say, why do you ask?”

The primary reason I’m asking right now is because ransomware is growing rapidly in occurrences; over 700% from last year.  Three of the best ways you can help defend against it is by: (more…)

Risk Management is more than a Risk Assessment

Tuesday, November 4th, 2014

Earlier this year after a session I gave at a conference, an attendee who was new to information security, and had just been assigned this responsibility at a mid-sized organization in the healthcare industry, asked if he could visit with me for a while about risk management. Well, of course! During the course of our conversation I learned that he had gotten some very bad advice about risk management in general, and risk assessments in particular. I know from reading various comments throughout the social media discussion sites that bad advice is becoming far too common, with many (more…)