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Breach Notification: Even Those Who Know, Don’t Know Enough

Since California became the first state to enact a security breach notification law in 2001, 46 states and the District of Columbia have enacted similar disclosure laws. These laws follow similar basic tenets that “companies must...

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Risk 101: SSL Key Indicator in Security Effectiveness

This post is part of the Risk 101 series.

Our use of the Internet can be characterized as a state of constant data exchange. While the exchanges of data between users and machines are often passive, when we are consuming information or...

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Email Security Best Practices: Using SPF Cybersecurity to Mitigate Malicious Threats

The threat from malicious email represents one of the greatest risks to IT security. That threat continued unabated in 2020, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Research indicated that in 2020 the number of nefarious emails...

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Risk 101: Using Data to Better Understand Information Security Risk

The answer to the question of how organizations can evaluate information security risk depends on how we first think about risk in cyberspace. Good security risk management is a combination of data, processes, technology, and education....

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