When he issued Executive Order 13800 (EO 13800) on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure, President Trump’s goal was to highlight that security and public accountability of government officials are foundational pillars while emphasizing the importance of reducing cybersecurity risks to the Nation.
KPMG’s Fraud Barometer Says Most Crime is Perpetrated by Employees and Managers Already Inside Companies. The introspective look at the UK’s £1.2 billion in 2018 fraud cases by KPMG demonstrates the need to be mindful of insiders. Each year, professional services company KMPG puts out their annual Fraud Barometer report, providing readers with the state of corporate fraud.
The software development life cycle abbreviated SDLC, is a term used for the process of developing, altering, maintaining, and replacing a software system. SDLC is comprised of several different phases, including planning, design, building, testing, and deployment. In Secure SDLC, security assurance is practiced within in each developmental phase of the SDLC. Throughout each phase, either penetration testing, code review, or architecture analysis is performed to ensure safe practices.
The Partner Integrations team at Egnyte is responsible for building the ecosystem around our products. We are running over 25 different integrations in production. This includes such integrations as Office Online, Docusign, and Slack, the “Apps and Integrations” interface and tools for partners to easily build their integrations. The number of integrations continues to grow.
Creating a vendor management program is difficult. However, that’s only the first part of the process. To fully implement your plan, you need to measure its effectiveness at reducing risk. To do that, you need objective key performance indicators (KPIs) for determining how well your vendors comply with the outlined controls in the service level agreement.
What is Incident Response? It’s a plan for responding to a cybersecurity incident methodically. If an incident is nefarious, steps are taken to quickly contain, minimize, and learn from the damage. Not every cybersecurity event is serious enough to warrant investigation. Events, like a single login failure from an employee on premises, are good to be aware of when occurring as isolated incidents, but don’t require man hours to investigate.
The greatest risk to a company is actually its own employees. Malicious insiders can commit employee fraud in many different ways: data theft, timecard theft, and monetary/asset theft are just a few types of fraud to keep on your radar. Here are four tools and practices you can adopt to detect employee fraud should it happen in your organization.
Insiders keen on making money from the valuable data your organization holds need only use a TOR browser to connect with buyers, hackers, and everyone else who doesn’t have your organizations best interest at heart.
