December 2020

I was recently asked, “Is Your Digital Identity Safe?” The short answer is “no”. Two aspects of the issue One, take a look at today’s threat environment for businesses.  There is a huge discrepancy between the marketing of information technology security and the reality of data breaches. Two, look at the threat consumers must deal with.  Again, a huge discrepancy between the marketing of identity theft protection services and the reality of ID theft Victims. Unfortunately, cybercriminals are getting better at hacking, and data breaches can happen to anyone, just look at the recent headlines: US Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise FireEye, a Top Security Firm, Says It Was Hacked by a Nation-State Spotify Security Vulnerability Exposed Personal-Data A worldwide hacking campaign with ties to Russia has cybersecurity experts trying to figure out what happened.  Further, how much of the United States government may have been affected and […]

The Cyber Threat Landscape Will Get Worse Before (and if) it Gets Better! Based on the three “headline news” articles below, I believe no one organization can prevent a data breach event: FBI, CISA warn of impending ransomware attacks on hospitals Security Experts Alarmed By Broken Cyber Market We are outnumbered – cybersecurity pros face a huge staffing shortage as attacks surge during the pandemic To prove this point, while the total number of data breaches was down in the first six months of 2020, over 27 billion records have been exposed so far this year (please see here) which is more than four times higher than any previously reported equivalent time period. This leads me to believe two things: All the financial and IT resources of the U.S. government and private industry – no organization can prevent a data breach. Cyber threats and attacks are no longer just a technology risk […]