Compliance Stuff

Cybersecurity Awareness Month was established to provide resources to organizations and their employees to help them stay safer and more secure online. It is an opportunity to focus on four key behaviors: creating strong passwords and using a password manager, enabling multi-factor authentication, updating software, and recognizing and reporting scams . Each of these key behaviors are necessary to help keep organizations, their clients, and their employees secure. Safeguarding Digital Assets by Identifying, Avoiding, and Reporting Phishing Attempts Cyber criminals deploy scams to try to convince people to give their passwords, information, or money. Malicious emails are one of the primary methods for these cyber scams, and remain one of the top risks facing organizations, especially as advances in artificial intelligence give cyber criminals the ability to craft highly sophisticated and hard-to-identify phishing emails. No email filter can detect and catch all malicious emails, so some...

The power of AI is creating new and evolving cyber risks. This article explores those risks, the legal landscape and consequences for organizations in the UK and US that fail to implement sufficient cyber protections, and the steps that legal departments should be taking to protect their organizations. AI cyber risk – both an internal and external challenge From an internal cyber defense perspective, AI as a technology is not substantially more risky than other new and novel IT systems . The internal risk stems from the rapid adoption of new technologies creating new attack avenues. AI is fueling a boom in new AI companies and the integration of AI into existing platforms. The speed of this change means the new technology may be less well tested and, accordingly, comes with heightened risks of undetected or unpatched vulnerabilities.  It also introduces change risk as new technology is onboarded . This often requires bringing new systems onto an existing IT estate or new connection...