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Is Ohio Senate Bill 220 an Example for the Other 49 States?

Passing with 24 yeas and 8 nays, effective as of November 2, 2018, Ohio Senate Bill 220 was touted as a way to use the ‘carrot approach’ for organizations to increase cybersecurity. This incentive was to encourage the shielding of data breach liability for organizations in certain situations. Excerpts from the bill are provided below....

NIST Guidance for Small Business Forthcoming

The National Institute for Standards and Technology, usually referred to as NIST, has many valuable resources, including resources for computer security. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF) and the NIST 800 series are familiar to most people in the information security industry. The NIST standards are commonly used not only by organizations that are bound...

First Came the GDPR, Now Comes “The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018”

If you count California residents amongst your customers, or those whose data you have (and given that California is one of the 10 largest economies in the world, there is a good chance that you do), it is likely that The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 could significantly change the way that you must...

Another Standard to Keep in Mind

In TrustedSec’s Advisory division, one question we often hear is, “how can we prioritize our information security efforts?” It is not surprising, as there are many things organizations can and often should be doing from an information security perspective, but there are only so many hours in the day, and so many dollars in the...

Understanding the Why

Time and time again, whether reading the news about the latest breach, or performing an assessment, it seems that it’s the simple things that so often get missed or neglected. Patches, network segmentation, default configurations and misconfigurations. Ensuring the security basics get covered isn’t a panacea for our security ills, but it can go a...

Team Approach

We take our jobs and our mission to help organizations become more secure very seriously. I don’t think it is any secret in our industry that we have a great time and as much fun as anyone while doing it, but one of the reasons that we are able to have so much fun at...