What happens to the victims of data theft, once hackers get hold of their identity? We were tempted to say “digital identity”, but that would not have been complete. Once the personally identifiable information (PII) or sensitive personal information (SPI) is in the hands of malicious entities, it c
Alarm or alert fatigue is much older than our current cyber-technology. It represents the state of de-sensitization to alerts due to their overwhelming frequency or number, and it was previously met in industrial environments. As the denomination suggests, individuals whose main activity resides in
Once a company’s IT system has been breached or infected, there are standard procedures to follow, in order to make sure all malicious elements are removed and for the system to safely re-engage in the usual activities. Bigger companies employ specialized services for cyber-security system setting u
The rate of information increase nowadays is unprecedented, making big data look like a virtual triangle-shaped bundle, whose base is continually growing larger as we speak. The older information lies somewhere beneath this immediate bunch of huge data, and this structure determines the prevalence
Any network, from small to complex, needs a comprehensive network monitoring foundation that enables the network administrators to track network behavior and events, in order to intervene if necessary. The network monitoring tools come in software or software-hardware form. The continuous network
In late 2014 the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), Association of National Advertisers (ANA), and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) created the New York-based Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) for the purpose of “eliminating fraudulent digital advertising traffic, com
Shadow data is a logical derivative of shadow IT, an organizational issue that we have approached in a previous article on our MobileCurated publication. When “intra-enterprise information-technology solutions (…) compensate the busy schedule of the official IT department”, organizational data meets
In our article on organizational doxing we mentioned social engineering with a promise on detailing this subject. The connection is straightforward – malicious digital entities use doxing as part of their social engineering maneuvers. However, what does social engineering mean? Social engineering i
It often occurs in the aftermath of a severe data breach that cyber-security analysts talk about the attacked system as not being secured enough, because it did not use multi-factor authentication. Abbreviated MFA, multi-factor authentication is actually 2FA in most of the cases: two-factor
The Safe Harbor Agreement is an U.S. – EU agreement between the European Commission and the United States Department of Commerce by virtue of which a Safe Harbor list is open for U.S. organizations. Once businesses meet the conditions and join the list, their European operations are considered co
