NetDiligence Global Events and Programming kicked off its Virtual Summer Summit with a preview event, Cyber Smart Webinar, featuring speakers Jim Stickley (Stickley on Security) and Paige Hanson (NortonLifeLock). After the event, NetDiligence followed up with Hanson for a discussion of “Cyber Smart Tips.”

The rising threat of deepfakes poses significant risks for individuals, companies, and democratic processes alike. Get ahead of this emerging technology by reading this Q&A to understand the creation, usage and consequences of deepfakes.

Having come into full effect on March 21, 2020, the New York SHIELD (Stop Hacking and Improve Electronic Data Security) Act updates previous data security laws and creates more obligations and potential concerns for companies and their cyber insurers. We asked Laurie Kamaiko of Saul, Ewing, Arnstein, and Lehr law firm about this new legislation…

Data reveals that in 2019, 55% of small and medium-sized enterprises were forced to pay hackers following a ransomware attack. Unfortunately, this trend of rising ransomware risk shows no signs of slowing down. Yet, the practice of paying cyber criminals ransom to recover data remains a gray area for regulatory compliance. Organizations can mitigate the…

Despite my best efforts to follow key social media cyber tips, I’ve been concerned about data privacy for quite some time now. As a resident of California, I’m entitled under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to ask about the data that companies have mined from me. Given recent data scandals involving popular social media…

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the traditional workforce has largely transformed into a work-from-home workforce. With most staff now operating outside of secure office environments 100 percent of the time, organizations have to deal with an immediate shift in the cybersecurity landscape. Unfortunately, a new wave of cyber attacks via ransomware, phishing, malicious…

This is the first in a series of posts about the implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). As someone who works in cybersecurity and privacy and who lives in California, I’ve been closely tracking CCPA since it was passed. The state statute, protecting consumers’ rights to access, request deletion of, and opt out…

Over the past 18 years at NetDiligence, we’ve often been asked about the future of ransomware. And the truth is that even after 18 years in this space, no one can fully predict what will happen. Even when ransomware became more widespread during the 2000s, no one could have imagined the current magnitude of the…

The COVID-19 outbreak has necessitated the creation of a mobile workforce practically overnight. Yet this sudden change raises cybersecurity and privacy issues that companies must now reckon with. The webinar “COVID-19 Emerging Issues: Managing Cyber Risks of a Remote Workforce and Global Privacy Concerns,” presented by NetDiligence and Arete Incident Response on March 24th, addressed…

Ransomware is a type of malware designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid. Typically, a ransomware attack starts with an innocent-looking email with an infected link or fake document attached. In fact, the average company received a whopping 90% of their detected malware through email, according to…