Facebook violated consumer protection law by failing to protect personal data that consumers thought they'd locked down, the District of Columbia alleges in a new lawsuit. Plus, Facebook is disputing a New York Times report that it ignored privacy settings and shared data with large companies without consent.
Providing vendors with visibility to a company's systems makes the vendor management process far more complicated, says Sunil Chandiramani of NYKA Advisory Services.
Is there anything better than being offered one year of "free" identity theft monitoring? Regularly offered with strings attached by organizations that mishandled your personal details, the efficacy and use of such services looks set for a U.S. Government Accountability Office review.
As regulators increasingly focus on third-party risk, healthcare organizations are entering more strategic partnerships with their critical vendors. And the effort is paying off with improved vendor risk management, says Mitch Parker, CISO of Indiana University Health System.
Yet another cyberattack against a cloud-based electronic health records vendor has been revealed. This one involved a ransomware attack that potentially exposed data on 16,000 patients of a California eye clinic. What can healthcare organizations do to minimize vendor risks?
Understanding where data is stored so it can be protected, overcoming security misconfiguration and improving vendor management diligence are three top challenges for healthcare organizations, says Chris Bowen of ClearDATA.
A batch of documents meant to be kept under court seal lays bare Facebook's strategic brokering of access to user data to reward partners and punish potential rivals. The material also demonstrates Facebook's views at the time on privacy and the risks of leaking data.
As of March 1, 2019, covered entities will be required to be in compliance with the New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation Section 500.11, the Third Party Service Provider Security Policy. What are the key requirements? Attorney Ted Augustinos, a partner at Locke Lord LLP, outlines the new...
Your organization's risk surface is larger than you think. How can you get a handle on what risks exist, where they reside, and which ones are most important to resolve immediately?
Israel-based Yehuda Lindell, a cryptography professor, describes how to use secure multiparty computation technology to protect cryptographic keys and describes other potential security applications.
Testing an incident response plan for use when a vendor has a security incident is an essential component of risk management, says Phil Curran, CISO at Cooper University Health Care.
Why is ramping up vendor risk management such a critical component of compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation? Attorney Steven Teppler provides insights.
The latest version of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework - Version 1.1 - includes more information on supply chain risk management, authentication, authorization, identity proofing and self-assessing cybersecurity risk management, says Matthew Barrett of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Another day, another "Have I Been Pwned" alert, this time involving 44.3 million individuals' personal details found in unsecured instances of Elasticsearch, which appear to have been left online by Data & Leads, a Toronto-based data aggregation firm.
North Carolina-based Atrium Health is notifying 2.65 million individuals of a data breach involving a cyberattack on databases hosted by a third-party billing vendor. The incident is the largest U.S. health data breach revealed so far in 2018.
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