The NIST Privacy Framework: Should your Organization Use It to Manage Privacy?
This post explores the NIST Privacy Framework and highlights some of the benefits it provides for managing privacy risk. Version 1.0 [...]
How Can Organizations Plan for the CCPA?
With the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) set to take effect January 1, 2020, organizations are making plans to ensure they [...]
HIPAA Security Rule: 5 Common Shortcomings (Administrative Safeguards)
Go beyond HIPAA’s language to achieve better security and compliance. Here’s how: When we help clients with HIPAA assessments—whether it’s a [...]
Achieve NOTHING™ Cybersecurity Podcast: Anthem’s Record $16M HIPAA Settlement
Big news this month! Anthem agreed to pay the federal government a whopping $16 million, settling the largest U.S. health data [...]
RULES, WHAT RULES? The Importance of Communicating Your Organization’s User Security Expectations
When LMG Security consultants are conducting security controls assessments for our clients, we usually find that management and the security team [...]
RIP Office365 Magic Unicorn Tool
As of this morning, Microsoft appears to have killed access to the "Activities" API, first publicized by Anonymous and used [...]
Can Antivirus Software Be Used Against You?
Antivirus software permeates our networks, from mission-critical servers to the CEO's workstation. Ironically, the very software designed to protect our organizations [...]
Password Cracking with Custom Wordlists
Caption(s): Enigma Machine Source(s): Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine Security researchers have been compiling wordlists for years. They have added hundreds of thousands [...]
Verizon Data Breach: How to Protect Yourself
What Happened? On Wednesday, ZDNet announced that a data breach caused customer records for up to 14 million Verizon subscribers to [...]
Encryption is Going Mainstream
The latest company to hop on the encryption bandwagon (via Wikimedia Commons) WhatsApp, a messaging app acquired by Facebook [...]