Business owners whose revenue streams depend significantly or partially on government contracts have been recently faced with the mandatory emerging regulations called Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, also known as CMMC. All organizations working with the Department of Defense (DoD) and Federal government as their prime or subcontractors must be audited against these requirements by a competent third-party CMMC auditor.
For a while, privacy in Q2 was looking like it would follow the season’s idiomatic rule: in like a lion, out like a lamb. But it came roaring back in June with a new U.S. state law, EU adequacy decisions, a new EU data transfer mechanism, and more. As we look back over the second quarter of 2021, several important developments are worth noting.
Canary deployment is a risk mitigation strategy for software releases. it allows applications developers to limit the damage caused by the release of faulty software updates and roll back such faulty updates quickly and safely without compromising the entire software assets.
The NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR 500) is a set of regulations from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) that places cybersecurity requirements on all Covered Entities (financial institutions and financial services companies). It includes 23 sections outlining requirements for developing and implementing an effective cybersecurity program, requiring Covered Entities to assess their cybersecurity risk and develop a plan to proactively address them.
2020 was the year of the DDoS attack. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks spiked over the last year, driven by the pandemic and the fact that so many people were locked down, working from home, and using online services to get through the pandemic. According to a report from NETSCOUT, more than 10 million DDoS attacks were launched last year, targeting many of the remote and essential services people were using to make it through the lockdown.
On July 14, 2021, WooCommerce issued an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability allowing an unauthenticated attacker to access arbitrary data in an online store’s database. WooCommerce is one of the most popular e-commerce platforms in the world and is installed on over five million websites. Additionally, the WooCommerce Blocks feature plugin, which is installed on more than 200,000 sites, was affected by the vulnerability and was patched at the same time.
In an age of big data and connected devices, security information and event management (SIEM) is one of the key priorities for businesses of all sizes. At a time when data is everywhere, and cyber threats are growing, security information and event management is more important than ever. This is where information management meets security as companies seek to manage their incident response, compliance requirements, security, and analytics.
