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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites comments on Draft NISTIR 8196, Security Analysis of First Responder Mobile and Wearable Devices, a document that reviews the current and potential use cases of mobile and wearable devices by first responders and analyzes them from a cybersecurity perspective.

The Transportation Security Administration released its Cybersecurity Roadmap, which will guide efforts to prioritize cybersecurity measures within TSA and across the transportation systems sector.

Only 29 percent of healthcare organizations reporting having a comprehensive security program in place, and among those that do not have such a program, 31 percent are either not meeting with their executive committee or are meeting less than once a year to give security updates.

Six months after the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect, enterprises are finding that privacy regulation is costing more than anticipated.

The global cybersecurity workforce gap has increased to more than 2.9 million, according to (ISC)2. Fifty-nine percent of cybersecurity professionals say that the widening workforce gap puts their organizations at risk.

If your company relies upon third-party cloud providers to support or deliver core services, or to protect sensitive data, it’s crucial to understand that cloud security is a shared responsibility.

Two hundred of the largest online retailers are taking consumer email protection and convenience seriously, according to analysis by the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance.

A proposed bill in the New York State Senate would mean that anyone wanting to buy a gun or renew their gun permit will be subject to a review of their internet history and social media accounts.

Fifty-six percent of organizations experienced a data breach involving more than 1,000 records over the past two years, and of those, 37 percent occurred two to three times and 39 percent were global in scope, according to Experian. 

A small subset of professional criminal actors is responsible for the bulk of cybercrime-related damage, employing tools and techniques as sophisticated, targeted and insidious as most nation-state actors, says the State of Cybercrime Report 2018.