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- EdFinancial and the Oklahoma Student Loan Authority (OSLA) are notifying over 2.5 million loanees that their personal data was exposed in a data breach.
- The target of the breach was Nelnet Servicing, the Lincoln, Neb.-based servicing system and web portal provider for OSLA and EdFinancial, according to a breach disclosure letter.
- That exposed information included names, home addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers for a total of 2,501,324 student loan account holders.
- “With recent news of student loan forgiveness, it’s reasonable to expect the occasion to be used by scammers as a gateway for criminal activity,” Bischoping said.
- Last week, the Biden administration announced a plan to cancel $10,000 of student loan debt for low- and middle-income loanees.
- Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool.
- The threat actor, according to researchers, is believed to be the China-based APT TA423, also known as Red Ladon.
- In lieu of malware, attackers can use ScanBox in conjunction with watering hole attacks.
- Adversaries load the malicious JavaScript onto a compromised website where the ScanBox acts as a keylogger snagging all of a user’s typed activity on the infected watering hole website.
- This allows ScanBox to connect to a set of pre-configured targets,” researchers explain.
- The campaigns are tied to focused abuse of identity and access management firm Okta, which gained the threat actors the 0ktapus moniker, by researchers.
- “These users received text messages containing links to phishing sites that mimicked the Okta authentication page of their organization.”Impacted were 114 US-based firms, with additional victims of sprinkled across 68 additional countries.
- “The 0ktapus campaign has been incredibly successful, and the full scale of it may not be known for some time,” he said.
- What the 0ktapus Hackers WantedThe 0ktapus attackers are believed to have begun their campaign by targeting telecommunications companies in hopes of winning access to potential targets’ phone numbers.
- Those links led to webpages mimicking the Okta authentication page used by the target’s employer.
- Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group.
- After a recent dip, ransomware attacks are back on the rise.
- With data gathered by “actively monitoring the leak sites used by each ransomware group and scraping victim details as they are released,” researchers have determined that Lockbit was by far the most prolific ransomware gang in July, behind 62 attacks.
- It may well be that the resurgence in ransomware attacks, and the rise of these two particular groups, are intimately connected.
- Why Ransomware Has BouncedResearchers from NCC Group counted 198 successful ransomware campaigns in July – up 47 percent from June.
- New research indicates that over 80,000 Hikvision surveillance cameras in the world today are vulnerable to an 11 month-old command injection flaw.
- Hikvision – short for Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology – is a Chinese state-owned manufacturer of video surveillance equipment.
- Last Fall, a command injection flaw in Hikvision cameras was revealed to the world as CVE-2021-36260.
- According to David Maynor, senior director of threat intelligence at Cybrary, Hikvision cameras have been vulnerable for many reasons, and for a while.
- Furthermore, IoT devices might not give users any indication that they’re unsecured or out of date.
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- World leaders will gather soon at the AI Seoul Summit to discuss just that.
- Also: Despite DALL-E military pitch, OpenAI maintains its tools won't be used to develop weaponsOn Friday, the UK and the Republic of Korea announced the AI Seoul Summit -- aka the AI Safety Summit and taking place on May 21 and May 22 -- where world leaders will meet to discuss the future of AI -- including AI safety, equitable access, and future innovations.
- This event will build on the first AI Safety Summit, which took place in the UK last November, where worldwide leaders gathered to start discussions regarding generative AI and even reached a forward-looking agreement, known as the Bletchley Declaration, on the future of the technology's development.
- On the first day of the Seoul Summit, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Republic of Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol will co-chair a virtual leaders' session.
- A select number of global industry leaders also will be invited to discuss how their models are adhering to the safety commitments made at Bletchley Park, according to the release.
- boonchai wedmakawand/Getty ImagesCompanies around the world need to act quickly after another major security breach hit a company that provides critical data analytics and visualization tools to a slew of organizations.
- Earlier this week, Sisense confirmed that the data dashboard and analytics company had been hit with a breach that allowed hackers to access its customers' data.
- Also: Were you caught up in the latest data breach?
- Here's how to find outSisense added that customers should engage in a range of activities, including changing passwords, logging out of Single Sign-On accounts, rotating Web access tokens, resetting user parameters, and more.
- This story is likely far from over and we'll be watching what's next for Sisense and its customers.
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- On April 11, AT&T emailed over 70M of its customers affected by a data leak disclosed by the company on March 30.
- What experts are sayingIn the email, sent at 3:23 p.m.
- ET, presumably sent to tens of millions of its customers, AT&T says that a breach (which they disclosed in a previous email on March 30) compromised customer information.
- Jason Perlow/ZDNETIn the email, AT&T provides a free subscription code and a link to the Experian website for enrollment.
- ET Experian noted on X that its website had stabilized.
- When Microsoft revealed in January that foreign government hackers had once again breached its systems, the news prompted another round of recriminations about the security posture of the world’s largest tech company.
- Despite the angst among policymakers, security experts, and competitors, Microsoft faced no consequences for its latest embarrassing failure.
- The United States government kept buying and using Microsoft products, and senior officials refused to publicly rebuke the tech giant.
- The report says Microsoft’s “security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul.”Microsoft’s almost untouchable position is the result of several intermingling factors.
- Three months ago, Microsoft revealed that Russian government hackers had used a simple trick to access the emails of some Microsoft senior executives, cyber experts, and lawyers.
- On Saturday, Iran launched more than 300 drones and cruise missiles at Israel, a response to a strike earlier this month against Iran's embassy in Syria.
- As they made their way to their target, Israel invoked a number of defense systems to impede their progress.
- That starts with the Iron Dome.
- The Iron Dome, operational for well over a decade, comprises at least 10 missile-defense batteries strategically distributed around the country.
- While the Iron Dome is Israel’s last line of defense, it’s not the only factor that came into play.
- “The vendors will exercise a realistic threat response scenario in an on-orbit space domain awareness demonstration called Victus Haze,” the Space Force's Space Systems Command said in a statement.
- This is what the Space Force wants to demonstrate with Victus Haze.
- According to the Space Force, True Anomaly and Rocket Lab will deliver their spacecraft no later than the fall of 2025.
- With these efforts, the Space Force and its commercial partners have shown how they can compress the time it takes to prepare and launch a satellite.
- Last year, the Space Force partnered with Firefly Aerospace and Millennium Space Systems on the Victus Nox mission.
- A group of US lawmakers on Sunday unveiled a proposal that they hope will become the country’s first nationwide privacy law.
- There are also steps you can take to wrench back some of the data used to train generative AI systems.
- Now, another ransomware group, RansomHub, claims it has terabytes of Change Healthcare’s data and is attempting to extort the company.
- But the company nonetheless reset users’ passwords and is implementing two-factor authentication on all user accounts.
- It wrote in its public support post that it’s warned users in a total of 150 countries about similar attacks since 2021.
- A controversial US wiretap program days from expiration cleared a major hurdle on its way to being reauthorized.
- Legislation extending the program—controversial for being abused by the government—passed in the House in a 273–147 vote.
- Analysis by the Brennan Center this week found that 80 percent of the base text of the FISA reauthorization bill had been authored by intelligence committee members.
- “Three million Americans' data was searched in this database of information,” says Representative Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee.
- That's why we need a warrant.”Representative Mike Turner, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, campaigned alongside top spy agency officials for months to defeat the warrant amendment, arguing they’d cost the bureau precious time and impede national security investigations.
- Here are some free red teaming resources to get you started.
- It covers red team techniques, Active Directory, and red team infrastructure.
- Red Teaming HandbookThis guide offers simple advice on the use and practice, of red teaming.
- Red Team ToolsThis GitHub repository holds over 130 tools and resources suitable for red teaming activities.
- While some tools are crafted explicitly for red teaming, others are general-purpose and can be modified in a red team context.
- In this Help Net Security interview, Caleb Sima, Chair of CSA AI Security Alliance, discusses how AI empowers security pros, emphasizing its role in enhancing skills and productivity rather than replacing staff.
- AI is seen as empowering rather than replacing security pros.
- While the future of AI replacing jobs remains uncertain, I am confident it’s not imminent.
- AI is a tool that can be used to empower rather than replace security pros.
- Correspondingly, by inputting historical data, security teams can use AI to help predict potential threats and plan mitigation strategies before these threats escalate.
- Audio deepfakes are becoming a big problem.
- Recent cybercriminal campaigns use voice cloning technology to replicate the speech tone and patterns of celebrities such as Elon Musk, Mr.
- Beast Tiger Woods, and others and use them for endorsing fake contests, gambling, and investment opportunities.
- In this Help Net Security video, Bogdan Botezatu, Director of Threat Research and Reporting at Bitdefender, discusses the growing trend of celebrity audio deepfakes.
- The survey yielded more than 500 complete responses from women who work in the tech industry, at tech organizations or companies, and in tech roles.
- “85% of our survey respondents say there’s a gender disparity within their team and 38% are dissatisfied with their growth potential.
- Prioritizing job satisfaction and benefitsOnly 27% of women in tech report being extremely satisfied with their jobs, and 37% are considering switching roles in the next year.
- With regards to training, women in tech are primarily seeking hands-on practice (43%) and delivery format flexibility (40%), such as instructor-led training.
- 36% of women in tech say they have improved skills in a tech-related area by earning certifications.
- Privacera announced the addition of new access control and fine-grained data filtering functionality for Vector DB/RAG to Privacera AI Governance (PAIG).
- The latest additions to PAIG are designed to establish and administer access control policies and make fine-grained data control and filtering seamless.
- Advanced classification-based filtering: Users can implement robust security and compliance policies through classification and tagging of data segments in VectorDB.
- Fine-grained authorization protocols: Users can employ dynamic metadata filtering to tailor access rights, guaranteeing real-time compliance and heightened security.
- E.g., Enforcing GDPR and CCPA by filtering customer data based on geographic location or individual consent.
- Cisco Duo warns telephony supplier data breach exposed MFA SMS logsPierluigi Paganini April 15, 2024 April 15, 2024Cisco Duo warns that a data breach involving one of its telephony suppliers exposed multifactor authentication (MFA) messages sent by the company via SMS and VOIP to its customers.
- Cisco Duo warns of a data breach involving one of its telephony suppliers, compromising multifactor authentication (MFA) messages sent to customers via SMS and VOIP.
- Then they used the access to download a set of MFA SMS message logs belonging to customers’ Duo accounts.
- “More specifically, the threat actor downloaded message logs for SMS messages that were sent to certain users under your Duo account between March 1, 2024 and March 31, 2024.
- Affected users whose phone numbers were in the logs are recommended to remain vigilant and promptly report any suspected activities.
- Ukrainian Blackjack group used ICS malware Fuxnet against Russian targetsPierluigi Paganini April 15, 2024 April 15, 2024The Ukrainian hacking group Blackjack used a destructive ICS malware dubbed Fuxnet in attacks against Russian infrastructure.
- Industrial and enterprise IoT cybersecurity firm Claroty reported that the Ukrainian Blackjack hacking group claims to have damaged emergency detection and response capabilities in Moscow and beyond the Russian capital using a destructive ICS malware dubbed Fuxnet.
- The Blackjack group is believed to be affiliated with Ukrainian intelligence services that carried out other attacks against Russian targets, including an internet provider and a military infrastructure.
- Team82 and Claroty have been unable to verify the attackers’ claims, however, they conducted a detailed analysis of the Fuxnet malware relying on information provided by the attackers.
- This prevents remote access for restoring operations even if the router remains functional.
- CISA adds Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Command Injection flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogPierluigi Paganini April 15, 2024 April 15, 2024U.S.
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Command Injection flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
- The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the CVE-2024-3400 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Command Injection vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog:CVE-2024-3400 (CVSS score of 10.0) is a critical command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software.
- This flaw impacts PAN-OS 10.2, PAN-OS 11.0, and PAN-OS 11.1 firewalls configured with GlobalProtect gateway or GlobalProtect portal (or both) and device telemetry enabled.
- Palo Alto Networks and Unit 42 are investigating the activity related to CVE-2024-3400 PAN-OS flaw and discovered that threat actors have been exploiting it since March 26, 2024.
- “Palo Alto Networks is aware of malicious exploitation of this issue.
- Threat actors exploited Palo Alto Pan-OS issue to deploy a Python BackdoorPierluigi Paganini April 15, 2024 April 15, 2024Threat actors have been exploiting the recently disclosed zero-day in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS since March 26, 2024.
- CVE-2024-3400 (CVSS score of 10.0) is a critical command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software.
- This flaw impacts PAN-OS 10.2, PAN-OS 11.0, and PAN-OS 11.1 firewalls configured with GlobalProtect gateway or GlobalProtect portal (or both) and device telemetry enabled.
- The researchers are tracking this cluster of activity, conducted by an unknown threat actor, under the name Operation MidnightEclipse.
- “During its investigation, Volexity observed that UTA0218 attempted to install a custom Python backdoor, which Volexity calls UPSTYLE, on the firewall.
- U.S. and Australian police arrested Firebird RAT author and operatorPierluigi Paganini April 15, 2024 April 15, 2024A joint investigation conducted by U.S. and Australian authorities led to the arrest of two key figures behind the Firebird RAT operation.
- Australian Federal Police reported that an Australian man and a man based in the US will appear in court, following the international investigation that began in 2020.
- The Australian man faces twelve counts of computer offenses.
- The Australian man developed and sold Firebird to customers on a dedicated hacking forum.
- The RAT allowed customers to access and control their victims’ computers remotely, its author advertised its stealing capabilities.
- A bipartisan data privacy bill unveiled last week by House and Senate leaders seeks to place boundaries around how large data brokers — firms that collect and combine massive sets of personal data and sell them to advertisers, governments and other interested parties — can operate.
- It would also impose a number of new restrictions on data brokers.
- The bill charges the Federal Trade Commission with creating a national registry to track data brokers that handle data or devices linked to more than 5,000 individuals.
- “To the extent that data brokers are dealing with other private sector companies to get that data, it would help reduce some of those data flows,” Pugh said.
- Other efforts on Capitol Hill would go much further in restricting to whom data brokers can sell.
- Legislation renewing the authorities under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act now moves to the Senate after decisive passage in the House by a vote of 273-147.
- Friday’s vote marks a major victory for the Biden administration, which had lobbied aggressively against the warrant requirement and to renew the measure.
- House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, said a warrant requirement would make it easier for terrorists to recruit within the United States.
- Another amendment the House adopted, by a vote of 227-193, would enable procedures under Section 702 for the vetting of non-U.S. persons entering the country.
- House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, scoffed at the prospective expansion of Section 702 that the amendment would permit.
- LAS VEGAS — An increasing volume of zero days — 97 total in the last year.
- “There’s more of everything bad,” Mandia said of the cyber threat landscape, though he reasoned, “that doesn’t mean we’re at the trough of cybersecurity over the last couple of years.
- More zero daysAccording to Kutscher, zero days are increasing in number and sophistication, and that’s a big problem for security professionals who want a good night’s sleep.
- One of them, of course, is the number of zero days that we’ve seen in the last couple of years,” he said.
- And when we’re at something like the last year, over 90 zero days that were used.
- Lighttpd’s developers patched the bug in 2018 but did not announce or assign a CVE that would have let users know of the security update, Binarly said in a report issued Thursday.
- Matrosov said his firm found more than 2,000 devices containing the Lighttpd vulnerability, but believes the true impact is likely much larger.
- Lighttpd’s developers appear to have only mentioned the security update in a commit on GitHub.
- The administration is examining how to work with the developer community to better secure open-source software out of the box.
- In recent weeks, a researcher discovered a cunningly designed backdoor inserted in a popular piece of open-source software designed to provide powerful espionage capabilities.
- “Microsoft and CISA have notified all federal agencies whose email correspondence with Microsoft was identified as exfiltrated by Midnight Blizzard,” the directive reads, referring to Microsoft’s name for the hacking group.
- “Midnight Blizzard’s successful compromise of Microsoft corporate email accounts and the exfiltration of correspondence between agencies and Microsoft presents a grave and unacceptable risk to agencies,” it continues.
- AdvertisementThe directive, dated April 2, tells affected agencies to “take immediate remediation action” on authentication credentials if those credentials are known or suspected to have been compromised.
- Goldstein acknowledged that passing credentials between federal agencies and Microsoft via email created a security liability.
- Advertisement“This Emergency Directive requires immediate action by agencies to reduce risk to our federal systems,” CISA Director Jen Easterly said in a statement.
- Russia, Ukraine and China harbor the greatest cybercriminal threat, according to the first World Cybercrime Index (WCI).
- This world-first cybercrime ranking is the result of work by an international team of academic researchers who surveyed 92 leading cybercrime experts and analyzed the results following a scientific methodology.
- The research project for the World Cybercrime Index took four years to complete.
- The scientific paper backing the Index, titled Mapping the Global Geography of Cybercrime with the World Cybercrime Index, was in the PLOS ONE journal published on April 10, 2024.
- Top 20 Countries with the Highest Cybercrime Threat LevelsRussia comes as the country where most cybercrime originates, with a WCI score of 58.39, followed by Ukraine (36.44) and China (27.84).
- A recent incident in West Africa has once again brought attention to the persistent threat posed by the LockBit ransomware.
- Exploiting privileged access, they breached corporate infrastructure, demonstrating the ongoing risk posed by the leaked LockBit 3.0 builder, despite its previous exposure.
- The malware variant, identified by the security firm, exhibits unprecedented features, including impersonation of system administrators and adaptive self-spreading across networks.
- This flexibility, coupled with the ease of use of the leaked builder, presents significant challenges for cybersecurity professionals.
- According to the cybersecurity firm, international law enforcement’s recent takedown of the LockBit ransomware group underscores the collaborative efforts required to combat such threats.
- Palo Alto Networks has detected targeted assaults exploiting a recently unearthed critical zero-day vulnerability within its PAN-OS software, designated CVE-2024-3400 with a CVSS score of 10.0.
- Identified as Operation MidnightEclipse, these targeted attacks have been closely monitored following the discovery of the vulnerability.
- In an advisory published last Friday, Palo Alto Networks confirmed targeted attacks leveraging this flaw, attributing known exploitation to a single threat actor while acknowledging the potential for future exploitation by additional actors.
- In their advisory, Palo Alto Networks has shared detailed insights into the backdoor’s behavior, including its persistence mechanisms, command execution and cleanup processes.
- Read more on this vulnerability: Palo Alto Networks Warns About Critical Zero-Day in PAN-OS
- Global chipmaker giant Nexperia has revealed it suffered a cyber-attack amid reports that ransomware hackers stole sensitive documents and intellectual property from the company.
- “We promptly took action and disconnected the affected systems from the internet to contain the incident and implemented extensive mitigation,” the statement read.
- Hackers Claim to Hold Sensitive Trade and Customer DataThe attack has been claimed by the Dunghill group, a ransomware gang that began operating from early 2023, according to WatchGuard.
- Dunghill claimed on its data leak site to have stolen 1TB of data from Nexperia.
- This includes trade secrets, such as chip designs, personal data of employees, and customer information from well-known brands like SpaceX, Apple and Huawei.
- The FBI has warned of a prolific new smishing campaign using road toll collection as a pretext to trick victims into handing over their personal information and money.
- A new Public Service Announcement (PSA) claimed that the campaign has been ongoing since March 2024 and has been spotted in at least three states.
- There’s apparently evidence to suggest the scam is moving from state to state.
- Read more on smishing: Smishing Triad: China-Based Fraud Network ExposedAccording to the FBI, the phishing text looks like this: “(State Toll Service Name): We’ve noticed an outstanding toll amount of $12.51 on your record.
- The FBI also recommended anyone receiving similar messages to check their account on the legitimate toll service’s website or call its customer service number, to see if they do indeed owe money or not.
- A report by Bitsight and Diligent, which includes contributions from 4,000 medium to large-sized companies across the globe, has found that only 5% of businesses have a cyber expert as a member of staff.
- At the same time, a correlation was found between strong cybersecurity measures and higher financial performance.
- In fact, cybersecure companies typically produce a financial performance that is four times higher than those that do not.
- “It's not enough to only elevate the visibility and authority of the CISO, or have a board involved in cybersecurity matters.
- Similarly, organizations that utilized specialized risk or audit committees typically had a better cybersecurity performance.
- Red Hat has recently reported a malicious code embedded in XZ Utils versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, which are XZ format compression utilities that are often involved in Linux distributions.
- “This attack has echoes of SolarWinds with code silently injected into the supply chain using xz that given certain configurations would allow remote unauthenticated access,” says Saumitra Das, Vice President of Engineering at Qualys.
- Shift left and Shift right.
- This also highlights the need for understanding our software supply chain better.
- The next step would be to verify the source of those ingredients themselves.
- The White House recently held a press call to announce a new order for federal agencies.
- All federal agencies must establish a chief artificial intelligence (AI) officer within the organization that will oversee the organization's approach to AI.
- The goal of this established position will be to effectively manage the risks of evolving AI technology within each federal organization.
- The chief AI officer is expected to be experienced and knowledgeable in regard to emerging AI capabilities and security threats.
- “Utah just passed an AI law, which is opening Pandora's Box since it paves the way for each state to pass its own AI law in the same way each state has sought to pass its own data privacy law.
- Forty-five percent of respondents report being a victim of financial fraud, and 17% of that group report experiencing check fraud in particular — potentially more than 20 million people.
- According to the report, 51% of check fraud victims had been targeted two or more times.
- The survey also found that small business owners more often were victims of financial fraud than others, with 57% reporting they’ve been targeted.
- They also dealt with more check fraud too: 60% of small businesses experiencing check fraud reported two or more instances.
- The survey revealed that small businesses have a greater awareness of check fraud technology (66%) than the general population.
- Furthermore, organizations that can deploy AI report that it can be challenging to do so, as the adoption of AI technology as a defense can require collaboration among multiple teams and enterprises, including technology, legal, compliance and more.
- Due to these challenges, many financial firms are slow to deploy AI technology as a defense.
- “The largest barrier for smaller financial institutions in utilizing AI for fraud detection is not model creation but with quality and consistent (standardized) fraud data,” says Narayana Pappu, CEO at Zendata.
- “Entities like financial institutions can act as a node to aggregate the data.
- It will take a growing arsenal of defensive AI to effectively protect organizations in the age of offensive AI.
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- iPhone users who have received the mercenary spyware attack alert should enlist expert cybersecurity help, Apple stated on its dedicated support page.
- Although it’s never possible to achieve absolute certainty when detecting such attacks, Apple has high confidence in this warning — please take it seriously.
- What is a mercenary spyware attack?
- A mercenary spyware attack occurs when spyware — malicious software used for surveillance purposes — is deployed onto a target device by a third-party entity.
- Apple said its threat notifications (Figure A) are “designed to inform and assist users who may have been individually targeted by mercenary spyware attacks.” The notifications do not necessarily mean that spyware has been successfully implanted in the user’s device.
- Read this TechRepublic cheat sheetHow much does it cost to recover from a ransomware attack on the backup?
- The Sophos research found that the median ransom demand for organisations whose backups are compromised is $2.3 million (£1.8 million) (Figure B).
- Companies without compromised backups are also more likely to be able to negotiate the ransom payment down, paying out an average of 82% of the initial demand.
- Companies with compromised backups paid eight times more on the total recovery effort than those whose backups remained untouched.
- Furthermore, only 26% of companies with compromised backups were fully recovered within a week, compared to 46% of those without compromised backups.
- Paperless offices have become the norm across industries and remote work depends on the ability to share electronic information for communication, announcements and collaboration.
- This checklist, created by Scott Matteson for TechRepublic Premium, provides a strategy for implementing the maximum security protection for your digital information.
- Featured text from the checklist: To effectively utilize this checklist, categorize information into four categories: Public: All employees and external individuals can access this information.
- This digital information is usually very generic and poses no risk to the company.
- Protect your digital information with our six-page PDF.
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