Three Notable Cybersecurity News Items

Three Notable Cybersecurity News  Items

Click the article titles above to continue reading

 

Cisco job applicants warned of potential mobile site data leak

Cisco has emailed users of its mobile careers site, warning of two occasions when their data could have been exposed.

 

By Chris Duckett | November 4, 2016 — 01:24 GMT (18:24 PDT) | Topic: Security  @dobes

 

“Users of Cisco’s Professional Careers mobile site, mjobs.cisco.com, have been warned of a potential leak of their data, which the networking giant is pinning on an incorrect security setting.”

 

November 04, 2016

 

Cybercrime blotter: Phoenix man arrested for hacking university emails

 

by Doug Olenick, Online Editor

 

DHS ‘very concerned’ about Election Day confusion from a cyber breach

Posted on Friday, November 4, 2016 by CNN in Election

Click the article title above to continue reading this piece.

Visibility: Accurately, discover sensitive data; detect and address broken business process, or insider threats including sensitive data breach attempts.

Protection: Automate data protection, breach prevention and incident response both on and off the network; for example, find and quarantine sensitive data within files exposed on user workstations, FileShares and cloud storage.

Notification: Alert and educate users on violations to raise awareness and educate the end user about cybersecurity and corporate policies.

Education: Start target cyber-security training; e.g., identify end-users violating policies and train them.

  • Employees and organizations have knowledge and control of the information leaving the organization, where it is being sent, and where it is being preserved.
  • Ability to allow user classification to give them influence in how the data they produce is controlled, which increases protection and end-user adoption.
  • Control your data across your entire domain in one Central Management Dashboard with Universal policies.
  • Many levels of control together with the ability to warn end-users of possible non-compliant – risky activities, protecting from malicious insiders and human error.
  • Full data discovery collection detects sensitive data anywhere it is stored, and provides strong classification, watermarking, and other controls.
  • Delivers full technical controls on who can copy what data, to what devices, what can be printed, and/or watermarked.
  • Integrate with GRC workflows.
  • Reduce the risk of fines and non-compliance.
  • Protect intellectual property and corporate assets.
  • Ensure compliance within industry, regulatory, and corporate policy.
  • Ability to enforce boundaries and control what types of sensitive information can flow where.
  • Control data flow to third parties and between business units.