Data Security

As a person who currently focuses on security awareness, hearing about or witnessing successful phishing attacks is frustrating. What is more frustrating is listening to security professionals blame users for falling for a phishing message instead of looking at themselves. 

International football star David Beckham has seen sensitive and embarrassing emails published after a company he works with, Doyen Global, rejected a hacker's ransom demand.

Leadership is a lot like playing in an orchestra. For those less familiar with an orchestra setting, let me explain. The basics: A traditional orchestra is made up of strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion, plus keyboards. 

The InterContinental Hotels Group announced 12 of its U.S. hotels were affected by a payment card breach.

Almost 1.89 million Michigan residents had their names and Social Security numbers potentially exposed due to when a software update went awry opening the information to outsiders.

A hospital in Texas was slammed with a $3.2 million penalty after it was found to be in violation of "multiple standards of the HIPAA Security Rule."

It’s true that cyberspace is growing by the day, and as companies and individuals add more information to internet-accessible sources, the risk of compromise of that data grows in parallel. With this greater risk comes more responsibility.