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2019: trends and breaches
27.12.2019
This autumn, experts have counted 5183 data breaches around the world compromising 7.9 billion records, and 2019 was claimed to be the worst in the history of data leakage.
How to max out SearchInform services
12.12.2019
Do you consider launching comprehensive monitoring of your internal business processes and even reinvent business continuity management strategy but aren’t sure you want to delve into risk management program and hire extra staff, assign your specialists to the new job and purchase the system to integrate it with your business architecture and implement all the control? If you do – read and learn how to establish a smoothly supervized workflow and not to the detriment of your primary activities.
Deepfake: when audio forged by social engineering becomes a global threat
09.12.2019
According to Gartner, by 2022 30% of all the cyberattacks could be targeted at damaging data, which is the material for neural network algorithm manipulations, as well as at the theft of ready-made machine learning examples.
Wanted: who is the most dangerous employee in a bank?
06.12.2019
They all work with different information, dealing with data at rest and data in use, have their own tasks and use specific instruments.
Voice assistants risk assessment
22.11.2019
Voice assistants became subject to investigative journalism — a few high profile publications made readers think twice before using a “helper” or even talking close to the microphone. And that is what we have learned this year.
Data at rest encryption
21.11.2019
Whether your data encryption is on your computer, a flash drive, on a cloud, or includes your entire disc, proper encryption and management are essential to keep your resources and data safe and ensure that you maintain compliance.
What is a DLP system? How do active DLP systems work in 2019?
07.11.2019
Although everyone is aware of risks that their data could be stolen, this is only the beginning of the IT risks companies must safeguard themselves from.
Data protection
06.11.2019
Business processes are migrating into a virtual environment, and companies have long started to keep e-document flow while introducing new management technologies.
Data forensics
17.10.2019
When most people hear the word “forensics”, what usually comes to peoples’ minds right away is that it will involve somebody in a lab and a white coat working long hours.
Protecting information on flash drives | how to protect files on flash drives
15.10.2019
A joint study of Illinois and Michigan universities revealed that 48% of people plug in random flash drives. We have selected the main points and findings which prove that the user behaviour plays an important role in protecting information.
Risk management matrix
14.10.2019
We take risks every day, from the moment we wake up until we go to bed at night, as they are a normal part of life.
What is an insider threat detection program?
10.10.2019
Although we all hope that we can trust each of our employees and that it will never happen to us, the truth is that malicious insiders are a relevant risk in today’s corporate world.
What is data at rest?
06.10.2019
Under the conditions of today’s digital climate, sooner or later your information will eventually find its way into the wrong hands.
Main aspects of information security
02.10.2019
Corporate security is not a new phenomenon. What we now understand as corporate security has existed since the emergence of trade. Merchants sought to protect their professional secrets from competitors in order not to lose profits.
Security risk management assessments
20.09.2019
Security risk assessments are performed for the purpose of identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing risks associated with a company’s use and operation of information systems to its operations and assets.
Employee monitoring issues
18.09.2019
Business ethics are the contemporary norms, set of values, and principles guiding the actions and behavior of employees at the companies they work for from a legal and moral standpoint.
Employment of friends and relatives
10.09.2019
The Sales Department had not been fulfilling a plan for three months. The reasons were unobvious: it was a business season, and there were no issues with the discipline and skills of the employees, but the number of deals has decreased.
Detection and mitigation of internal corporate risks
07.09.2019
The meaning of risk is the possibility of loss. Thus, what risk management entails is the process of identifying, analyzing, assessing, and prioritizing risk.
Risk assessment matrices
05.09.2019
With the plethora of risks that accompany running a business, it is much more practical to have everything organized in written form or, better yet, in the form of diagrams for a concrete, concise representation of which risks the company faces as well as the severity of them.
Email monitoring
04.09.2019
As much as companies try to foster a culture of positivity in the corporate environment, put all sorts of system limitations in place, and emphasize strict company policy to keep employees from engaging in things they shouldn’t be doing, fraud still goes on, and it is rampant, hence the demand for email monitoring.
Configuring DLP system
02.09.2019
The installation of a DLP system can be managed even by a novice system administrator. However, its fine-tuning requires some skills and experience.
Web activity monitoring
27.08.2019
In the technology era in which employers are looking to squeeze everything out of their employees that they can and optimize business efficiency to the max, a plethora of process optimization industries have sprouted up that offer to facilitate businesses’ success.
Remote employee monitoring
24.08.2019
As of late, there has been a great rise in employers’ desire to keep as close an eye on their employees as possible and analyze their activities in-depth to achieve the best idea of the level of their performance and the degree to which they are complying with policy.
User behavior analytics
22.08.2019
Given the widely known and harnessed power of data analytics, companies utilize all sorts of information on their customers for a variety of purposes. Many use this information to most efficiently allocate their marketing expenses.
Fundamentals of IS | Fundamentals of IS. data protection
17.08.2019
The founder of cybernetics Norbert Wiener believed that information has the unique characteristics and cannot be described as neither energy nor matter. A special status of information as a phenomenon resulted in a proliferation of definitions.
User activity monitoring
16.08.2019
The more that a company knows about its workers, the more it can harness that knowledge to propel the business’ success to the next level. Employers do not want to leave productivity up to chance.
Internal auditing
14.08.2019
It goes without saying that efficiency is one of the most basic ingredients of a successful business and there is always room to ameliorate.
Insider threat statistics
10.08.2019
A company having its secrets and confidential information stolen, its funds robbed, or damage caused to it is an ever-present threat that companies may take appropriate measures to avoid.
HR investigations
04.08.2019
Although the primary function of a human resources department is to recruit and train personnel, there are many situations in the workplace that HR has to deal with, including ethics breaches and company policy violations.
IS Worldwide | The problems of information security in the world
01.08.2019
By information security, we mean a set of organizational and technical measures to ensure the protection, integrity, accessibility and manageability of data arrays.
Extremist activity in the team
26.07.2019
The department head noticed that an employee’s work had changed for the worse.
Shell companies and drug network
26.07.2019
Company N called for a tender for preparation of design estimate documentation. At the stage of receiving requests the company found out that one of their employees had attempted to participate too.
Employee productivity
23.07.2019
Every bit of what makes a company successful comes from work implemented through the actions of a company’s employees.
How to digitize human factor
20.07.2019
Prevention is the key process of incident management – it is better to discover reasons and sources of a possible security breach than to fight consequences. Potential insiders are not easy to detect, and general data safety approach including basic instruments are not sufficient to reveal a violator.
Computer forensics
18.07.2019
When you discover that your enterprise has been victimized by cybercrime or breached, your first thought is to seek out the origin of the crime.
Business continuity
16.07.2019
Considering the significant amount of money most people have invested in their businesses, it is important that the full rewards of it can be reaped.
Search for a new job
12.07.2019
An employee was viewing vacancies on his corporate computer and receiving invitations to job interviews sent by business competitors. A company's risk manager detected the suspicious activity and took the employee under control.
Insider threat tools
09.07.2019
While all the hype about unknown threats breaching a company’s privacy, stealing its confidential information and company secrets, purposefully inflicting damage to its public image, and robbing it of its funds is worth keeping in mind to protect against, the losses that would result from that actually occurring are not as great as most people believe.
Distribution of negative opinion
04.07.2019
The system detected the correspondence between colleagues discovering one of the employees being outraged by the incentive system and other aspects of the management approach to employees.
Data security and data encryption in business
02.07.2019
Encryption involves a plain text being coded into “encrypted” form using a cipher text and then being “decrypted” with a cipher text by the recipient on the other end.
Corporate fraud investigations. Fraud security & protection
28.06.2019
Corporate fraud could be defined as a loss to a corporation due to deceitful management. These schemes are often marked by their complexity and economic impact.
What is Risk Mitigation Strategy? Define Risk Evaluation Plan
24.06.2019
To define risk mitigation, let us first specify what risk is. “Risk” is the possibility of loss. Thus, risk mitigation entails a concentrated effort to reduce adverse effects.
What is Risk Management? Solutions, Strategies, Services & Tools
16.06.2019
Anyone who has ever been involved in business knows that there is risk everywhere. What is risk management?
How to Reduce Internal and External Threats to Organizations
12.06.2019
With the current state of the global economy and employees feeling ever more pressure, internal security threats are on the rise.
Illegal business arrangements
11.06.2019
Employees can create their own legal entities that will interact with an employer company. For example, fraudsters can use their job positions and promote their own enterprise as a counterparty and at the same time offer disadvantageous terms and conditions of cooperation.
What is Fraud Detection? Fraud Detection Software & Solutions
07.06.2019
From advancing computing speeds to high-performance analytics to machine learning and other forms of AI, fraud prevention technology has come a long way.
What is Employee Monitoring Software or Employee Tracking System?
20.05.2019
Do you know what your employees are up to? Businesses are well aware that gaining a good understanding of what their employees are up to can work wonders in raising their work efficiency.
Information Security Threats
17.05.2019
Information security in the broadest sense is a combination of means to protect information from accidental or deliberate exposure.
Information Security Incident Management | IS Incident Management
10.05.2019
The system of data leakage protection is based, above all, on the detection, prevention, registration and mitigation of information security incidents or events that violate regulated procedures.
Protection Against Information Leaks | Organization the protection of information from leakage through technical channels
01.05.2019
We reviewed the results of the study related to the leakage of financial and other corporate confidential information.
How to Choose a DLP System
27.04.2019
The global market of information security tools offers a wide range of DLP systems (Data Leak Prevention). And the demand for them is only growing.
Identifying terror threats
23.04.2019
The correspondence of employees in the corporate chat was intercepted. The employees were discussing the war in Syria, and one of them spoke negatively of Russia’s role in the conflict.
Methods to Protect Information | Methods and Tools for Data Protection
18.04.2019
Computer data is prone both to loss due to malfunction or destruction of equipment, and to theft. Protection methods include the use of hardware and devices, as well as specialized technical tools with software.
DLP systems | What is a DLP system, and how does it work?
14.04.2019
As of today, the market of DLP systems is one of the fastest growing among all markets of information security tools.
Concept of DLP Systems | What is a DLP system?
09.04.2019
DLP software is used to protect confidential data from internal threats. However, even if information security specialists adopted protection tools and use them against external violators, struggle with internal violators is more challenging.
Using personal mailbox
05.04.2019
A car center employee was caught sending sensitive data from corporate to personal email.
Personal data leakage
01.04.2019
The risk management department noticed that one of the dentists of the state clinic used to send to his personal email cards with health data.
Communication with competitors
25.03.2019
An employee received a message with an offer to meet and discuss “some common issues”.
Leakage of a customer database
22.03.2019
A security policy response attracted the attention of the risk managers responsible for monitoring to the abnormal activity of an employee who accessed the customer databases that include the information on individuals.
Attempt to leak tender documentation
20.03.2019
The results of the monitoring revealed that the employee was ordered to send the document to this email address by his manager.
Leakage of a supplier database
18.03.2019
The study of user relations made it possible to establish that the employee transmitted information to her husband who had a plot with the company's competitors.
Payoffs
17.03.2019
An employee logged into the personal mailbox from the corporate computer – a DLP system automatically "scanned" the last sent and received emails.
Leakage of a company's business plan
15.03.2019
With the help of the integrated policies the system alerted to a suspicious activity - one of the employees discussed the company's short-term development plans with an unknown user via Skype.
Leaking the company's know-how
12.03.2019
The risk management department found confidential files on the computer of an employee who wasn't authorized to access them. Moreover, when the incident happened, the employee was on vacation.
Fraud Detection & Prevention Software: Business, Accounting, Banks
09.03.2019
If most people were asked if stealing is wrong, they would answer “Yes”. In spite of this, organizations all over the world lose about 4 billion dollars to fraud on an annual basis.
How to Prevent Identity Theft & Fraud. Types of Corporate Frauds.
07.03.2019
Avoiding corporate fraud is no easy task considering the great variety of forms of embezzlement and deception that may take place. In the past 20 years, over 1,000 executives have been convicted of corporate fraud.
Attempt to leak the local network topology
02.03.2019
The risk management department spotted one of the lawyers copying the document with the schemes of local networks and communication of the company to the personal flash drive.
