Cybersecurity and Risk Insights and Alerts
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Preventing Stormy Security Weather in Your Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Environment
Companies are relying increasingly on cloud service providers for conducting business, including storing data, hosting email, and more. But with the increasing regulatory focus on the risk of cloud data storage, is the forecast for cloud solutions stormy?
- Cybersecurity
Capital One Breach Affects 100 Million Customers
On July 29, Capital One Financial Corporation announced that it had suffered a breach on July 19. On that date, an outside individual illegally accessed the personally identifiable information of over 100 million of its customers.
- Cybersecurity
New York State's SHIELD Act Signed into Law
The SHIELD Act significantly expands New York State's breach notification law.
- Cybersecurity
FinCEN Issues Updated Advisory on Business Email Compromise Fraud
On July 16, the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an update to the September 6, 2018 advisory, "Advisory to Financial Institutions on E-mail Compromise Fraud Schemes." The updated advisory indicates a sharp rise in business email compromise (BEC) fraud across financial services and other industries.
- Cybersecurity
FAQs: Brazil’s LGPD Data Privacy Law - What You Need to Know
The Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) is a sweeping data privacy regulation that goes into effect on February 15, 2020. Download our FAQs to find out what you need to know and how the law applies to your company.
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Regulatory Cyber Alert: Cyber Incidents Reported to the FCA by UK Financial Services Firms Increased by 1,087% in 2018
A recent Freedom of Information request to the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) by accounting firm RSM revealed that 819 cyber incidents were reported to the FCA during 2018 – almost a 12-fold
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