Data Security

Capital Region Medical Center has made significant progress in restoring its network after a Dec. 17 cyberattack. But CRMC has found evidence patient data may have been viewed or accessed.

When storms, hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires and other natural disasters strike, they impact life across wide swaths of the country. They also impact the ability to access financial services and the potential for bad actors to get in amid the chaos.

Despite the increased dependence on data backups, in light of ransomware attacks that force organizations to revert to their backed-up information, a new survey of 200 financial service institutions across 45 countries showed that many if not most FSIs have yet to reach a “mature” level of data storage and backup.

Gov. Mike Parson of Missouri was quoted at a news conference yesterday saying that he thought prosecutors would charge St. Louis Dispatch reporter Josh Renaud for what many security experts believe was a responsible disclosure of a data leak on a state website.

Photography and image sharing firm Shutterfly has disclosed being hit by a Conti ransomware attack nearly two weeks ago, resulting in the encryption of more than 4,000 devices and 120 VMware ESXi servers.

Here are seven tips for securing a cloud database.

Ermetic’s software platform attempts to strengthen enterprises’ data security by controlling employees’ access to certain sensitive cloud resources, such as the corporate firewall.