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Overlapping Cybersecurity Frameworks and Compliance Standards

It can be helpful to take a step back from the individual checklists and shift from focusing on compliance to focusing more holistically on information security. One way to standardize and build a roadmap for your enterprise information security program is through the use of an industry cyber security framework.

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Strengthen Your Defenses with Password Auditing

Weak passwords are as dangerous as leaving the front door of your house wide open for criminals to walk right in. Learn how password audits can help secure your organization.

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Seven Ways to Support Cyber Security Month in October and EVERY Month

Take cybersecurity seriously in October and every month. Here’s seven easy ways to do so yourself, and share with others as well:

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Planning for the 3G Network Shutdown: Cellular Payment Card Terminals

Some devices, like payment card terminals, have not required the move from 3G until now and many devices being sold today still operate solely on the 3G network. Merchants using cellular payment card terminals will need to upgrade to at least 4G devices in order to have the necessary support and coverage for payment card acceptance.

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Top 10 Back to School Blunders

The biggest mistakes parents usually make at the start of a new school can easily convert to best practices for your team to consider when building and maintaining your organization’s information security and compliance programs.

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GLBA Safeguards Rule Audit Objective

The new audit objectives don't appear to be a deep-dive audit into your information security programs, but instead a check to establish that your institution has designed, implemented, and maintained an adequate information security program for meeting the core elements of the Safeguards Rule.

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To Pay or Not to Pay? Ransomware Attacks Targeting Cities and Universities

Is your organization an easy target for ransomware? If your systems were attacked, are you confident you could restore all data and services in a timely manner?

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NIST SP 800-171 Framework Series: Incident Response

Incident Response is one of the 14 requirements outlined in the NIST SP 800-171 and this article covers Requirement 3.6 in more detail.

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Protecting Your Institution’s Reputation in the Event of a Data Breach

The way a college or university manages a data breach will directly impacts its reputation after the dust settles. If your institution does fall victim to a data breach, what are some of the best practices that we have learned from the breaches that came before?

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