Some IT security attacks start from the most innocent mobile apps and in ways that let cyber-criminals simply pick up confidential communications without having to hack into anything at all. While it may sound surprising, many mobile apps leak user data to anybody ready to receive it. While some free apps rely on being able… Continue reading Enterprise Attacks that Start in Mobile Apps

The bedrock of the insurance industry is quaking. For decades, large North American insurers got bigger by dominating distribution and methodically mastering information technology.  But the confluence of changing customer demands, hundreds of insuretech startups and non-traditional competitors sniffing around the business of insurance is messing up the long-standing insurance equilibrium.  Insurance carriers–and their agents… Continue reading The Digital Insurance Imperative: Go Digital Or Go Bust

Attention to America’s immigration policies has intensified recently, with politicians and citizens wrangling over whether and how to control the number of foreigners entering the country. Emergency managers, however, largely don’t believe immigration is their issue. Except, in a sense, it is. “I don’t see why or how [immigration] really relates to emergency management, which… Continue reading What are the Immigration Implications on Emergency Managers?

The Business Continuity Institute Cyber espionage is now the most common type of attack seen in manufacturing, the public sector and education, warns Verizon’s latest Data Breach Investigations Report. Much of this is due to the high proliferation of propriety research, prototypes and confidential personal data, which are hot-ticket items for cyber criminals. Nearly 2,000 breaches were… Continue reading BCI: Cyber espionage and ransomware attacks are on the increase

Ever since marketing figured out that companies could do better by asking customers what they wanted, rather than just trying to tell them, businesses have moved massively to the notion of working backwards from the customer. Indeed, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, declared, ‘‘We start with the customer and we work backward. We learn whatever… Continue reading Business Continuity by Working Backwards

A penetration test, when carried out by outside experts, is the best way to establish how vulnerable your network is from a malicious hacker attack. But while thorough, third-party penetration testing can be expensive and is effectively out of date as soon as you make changes to your infrastructure or as new vulnerabilities that affect… Continue reading Penetration Testing: DIY or Hire a Pen Tester?