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Human Error Driving Data Breaches, Studies Find

April 11, 2018 Alex Woodie

Preventable errors – including clicking on malicious links sent as part of a phishing attack and misconfiguring servers and network devices – account for a large number of data breaches, according to a pair of studies released last week by IBM and Baker Hostetler.

In IBM‘s annual X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2018, the company concluded that “inadvertent insiders” — or employees who unwittingly cause security incidents through negligent actions – accounted for two-thirds of all the records that were comprised in 2017. IBM says nearly 3 billion records were compromised last year, which is actually down from the 4 …
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IT Horror Stories

October 30, 2017 Alex Woodie

Let’s face it: IT can be downright scary. From unpatched servers and failed ERP implementations to clueless CIOs and that clown in the server room, information technology is a business fraught with danger. Here are a few IT tales that could keep you up at night.

Are hackers lurking in your system? It’s more likely if you haven’t kept up on your patches. That’s the horrific lesson learned by Equifax, which recently disclosed that it lost sensitive data for 143 million consumers after bad guys worked their way into the system through a vulnerability in some open source middleware that …
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Why Encryption Is Not A Silver Bullet

October 2, 2017 Alex Woodie

While there is a temptation to view database encryption as the ultimate form of security, there are a variety reasons why the technology should not be relied upon as the main means to protect your valuable DB24i data. We talk with former IBMer Bruce Bading, who wrote the book on IBM i security assessments, to get the dirty details.

In the wake of the Equifax hack, several important questions have gone unanswered: Did the credit giant encrypt its data, and if so, how did hackers end up with 143 million records? With multiple government investigations – and many more civil …
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Following Equifax, Focus On Database Encryption

September 20, 2017 Alex Woodie

In the wake of the massive data breach at Equifax that has impacted millions of Americans, suspicions are arising that the company did not even encrypt its data. As hard as it is to believe that one of the big three credit agencies neglected to use encryption, a survey suggests that storing data in plaintext is a common business practice at the vast majority of IBM i shops.

Despite all the news coverage of this major data breach, critical facts and details are scarce. It’s hard to know exactly what steps Equifax’s IT department took to protect its data, for …
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Three Lessons IBM i Shops Can Learn From The Equifax Hack

September 18, 2017 Alex Woodie

The recent Equifax data breach exposed extremely sensitive data of 143 million consumers, putting more than half of Americans at risk. While an IBM i server was likely not involved here, Equifax’s actions – and more importantly, its inactions – can teach IBM i shops something about data security.

Just when you thought the string of major data breaches couldn’t get any worse, Equifax happened. The number of people impacted by the hack is relatively small, as these things go. When you consider that Yahoo’s 2014 breach exposed the data of 1.5 billion people, and that Adult Friend Finder’s 2016 …
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Human Error Driving Data Breaches, Studies Find

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Why Encryption Is Not A Silver Bullet

Following Equifax, Focus On Database Encryption

Three Lessons IBM i Shops Can Learn From The Equifax Hack

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